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> Remodel shit house

Ideas on what to do with this?

>> No.1201016
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>>1201015
Layout from the county.

>> No.1201039

>>1201015
how much is it worth compared to the rest of the street/bock? don't go too crazy, i remodeled the shit out of a house in a crackhead location and lost a lot of $$. nobody wants to live in a crackhead location.

>> No.1201043

>>1201015
I liked it except the abomination on the roof

>> No.1201047

Look, it's the house version of just fuck my shit up

Now that that's out of the way. Is that real brick or """"""brick"""""" """""""""plating""""""""""

>> No.1201053

>>1201039
If I can get it for half of the asking, it is in a nicer area that I wouldn't mind living in for a couple of years.

>>1201043
The house needs gutted and the upstairs has a shit lay out.

>>1201047
The house is brick.

>> No.1201092

Curb appeal, if I was driving by - meh and keep on going. Completely gut the landscaping the pine on the left and the hedges on the right may have been a good idea to someone but they need to go. Add some color to make things more inviting.
Get rid of the damn dish, awnings and fancy up the dormer.

>> No.1201094

What's your budget?

>> No.1201153

>>1201094
I'm thinking about $60k in the remodel.

Currently thinking
- $7000 - heating/cooling
- $3000 - dry wall and dry wall related
- $5000 - flooring
- $10000 - roof
- $10000 - a nice bathroom
- $10000 - decent small kitchen
- $10000 - new windows
- $5000 in misc trim and stupid things around the house

>> No.1201156

>>1201092
I was thinking leave the tree and move the bushes to the front to block the view from the road. There is very little 'curb appeal' to this home. I just want something that would be cheap enough in case i want to straight quit my job and not work for a couple of years.

>> No.1201218

>>1201153
Why are you spending this much money on this home?
Are you going to live in it for the next 20 years?

>> No.1201226

>>1201153
That's wayyyy too much.

AC should be half that. Flooring should be $2 a sqft, not $4. Roof can be done for $5000 easily. Windows are $100-150 each, you've probably got 8-10 windows in the whole home.

I do rental homes, so my criteria is a bit different, but a full remodel shouldn't be more than 15-20k.

>> No.1201237

>>1201218
Houses around it go for more than I would put into it + what I would pay for it even in a bad market.

>>1201226
The heating and cooling would be to replace everything. Friend of mine just got an energy efficient heating and cooling system that is really nice for about $7000. The back of the house has like a hillbilly sun room with a lot of larger windows. I guess I was just budgeting high to make things actually nice, not just livable/rentable.

Next question, how would you make a square room feel like square-ish? That has been one of my bigger complaints now about the layout of the house I'm in. Everything is a boring square on top of another boring square.

>> No.1201241

>>1201237
Do you plan on doing most of the work yourself, or are you using a contractor?

Where are you getting the AC unit from? We always source ours directly from the supplier and then pay a local guy to install it. All your large AC shops in town rape you on new units.

>> No.1201245

>>1201241
Heating and cooling related, I was just going to pay. Don't really know much about it and didn't want to deal with it desu.

Electrical, my brother is an electrician so I could either hire him/his company or see if he'll help/supervise me doing it.

Any of the other work, I feel I can read or find resource on the internet to figure out if I haven't done it before.

>> No.1201247

>>1201245
If you're going to DIY, your estimates are way over. Without labor, you could do everything you said for 10-15k.

You can pay a premium for AC work from a big company, or you can buy the unit yourself and pay a contractor to install it. We've always had good luck with our AC contractors. The markup on units alone when you buy from the bigger companies is 40-50%.