Tasteful Friends: What The Literal Fuck???

's house?

"Needs TLC"

Was it a crime scene? A home invasion? Aliens took them away one night?

Surprised it's not 1.3m

Old abandoned house someone's inherited and is trying to sell. What is so hard for you to understand? I don't get it.

It looks pretty modern R5

Location! Location! Location! Make this one your own!

It looks like it was squatted for some time. Then evacuated. It seems to have the mark of evil on it. The land is likely worth that much money.

Do NOT look in the crawl space.

This is where Janbot lives OP. The image of the intact electrical wiring shows how she can still get onto the internet somehow and troll the fuck out of Datalounge.

It's move in ready. Even includes dishes and toilet paper

It had a hole in the roof

Most of this is construction clutter and dust. I only see a couple of real construction issues. Plus the yard hasn't been taken care of in years.

This isn't as bad as you think. Have you seen some of the home people choose to flip? Mold, literal animal shit everywhere, termites, punched-in walls, water damage.

This has little of that. Yes, I'm being serious.

It’s a manifestation of severe mental illness.

The wood is quite rotted in one of those bath rooms.

Good bones, or are those human bones?

[quote]Have you seen some of the home people choose to flip?

I think this one's already been flipped. And it landed wrong side up.

Seriously OP? You've never seen a distressed home? There are thousands of them.....all over the place. Nothing unusual about this one. It's typical of what we see every day.

Looks like a house an old person died in. After a while they stop giving a fuck and/or stop being able to keep the place up.

House flipping should be taxed out of existence.

Learn English, OP.

[quote] Most of this is construction clutter and dust

That's isn't true. There are leaves all over the house. Because there was a hole in the roof for a long time

Do they not ever advertise teardowns as such?

R22 - no - there aren't that many leaves. That's probably from the squatters/drug users who brought them in.

LOL. You gonna fix up that dump, R20? It would be amusing to see you try.

Yuk. I hate formal places where you feel like you can't relax or sit a cat down.

Add a few throw pillows and it's move in ready.

I'm convinced that it's haunted.

At least they removed the yellow crime scene tape.

LOL at Captain Obvious and Friends posting "it's a big rehab project for a house flipper."

We get that.

It's that fact that they took 35 photos of the disaster and the write-up does not in any way acknowledge the current state of the house is what's funny.

The write up just says

[quote] 3 beds and 2 baths with a large lot. Lake access and rights nearby beaches, Nearby schools include Kent Primary School, George Fischer Middle School and Carmel High School.

A cursory review of Putnam County property records show it was purchased in 10/2020 for 50k by a New Jersey LLC and “value useable” is “no.” Prior to that it was purchased by a Robert B in 1991 for 80k.

I’d love to know the back story. Did the LLC buy it thinking to fix it up such as installing new kitchen cabinets but give up? Why the heck didn’t the seller/realtor clean the place up a bit and toss the personal items in a dumpster?

For tax purposes the land is worth 11.3k and the market value is 265.6k.

What in the world happened?

Good sleuthing R31.

I suspect the LLC is thinking that given rising real estate prices, they can get someone to pay double what they paid (maybe more) while still viewing it as a potential fixer upper.

I can’t comment …I don’t meet the criteria as tasteful…..

It think it looks absolutely charming

Agree r13, bring in one of those companies that takes out the junk and does a cursory clean up and go from there. If the roof is okay (hard to tell) and the outside wood paneling around the doors can be fixed, it's definitely salvageable.

I'm speechless as well OP. "Amawalk"away!

I am just so curious why it’s in such a chaotic state.

The place is on septic with its own well. But that’s just so weird for a small 80 x 100 lot situated amongst other houses which may have their own septic/well. Way back in the 80s Southeast Portland was required to go from septic/well to muni hook ups. The residents balked at the measly 10k fee but it had to be done for public health reasons. I wonder if that’s the case here.

But that doesn’t explain the chaos and disrepair. Why in the world would someone install new cabinets when there needs to be HVAC, electrical, and possibly roof work done? Just crazy!

Correct, R32. We do it all the time. Purchase the house direct from the owner and put it right on the market at a higher price. Maybe do a clean out and some lipstick. Maybe not. Each home is different and has to be analyzed for the highest and best profit strategy. In a hot market you don't have to do much, unless you want to. Another investor (hopefully an eager, dumb newbie) will overpay for it and do the rehab. It's called wholesaling.

And, to the genius @ R30 (who must also be the idiot OP), investors often buy distressed properties sight unseen. The more photos the better. And, no, for an "as is" property you will never see comments about condition other than the generic "handyman special" (or similar). Liability.

LOL R32 is the "idiot OP"

I LITERALLY squinted and moved my head in at that slanted ceiling.

Also, never seen a realtor pic of the circuit breaker thingy.

The ghosts who are haunting it must be real slobs.

Carmel, NY is trashy anyway.

This house would cost 10 times as much in Carmel, California.

Just needs some dusting.

It looks cute on google streetview. Seems like whoever bought it fucked the place up and vanished.

R43 Carmel, California wouldn't permit such an eyesore to exist.

Putnam County? No wonder. The wealthy leftie Brooklynites are not heading to the Repub, retired cop-counties.

My woke town of New Paltz has seen real estate rise 20% in the past year. Same for Kingston.

[quote] no - there aren't that many leaves. That's probably from the squatters/drug users who brought them

wrong. The leaves are upstairs . And you have leaves upstairs when you have a hole in the roof. The dirt and the moldy bathroom is from the leak in the roof

They have full sized leaves (the size of a man's hands) in the living room. The leaves in the living room and bedrooms are on the outer edges of the rooms. Nobody dragged those leaves in on their feet

I'm an insurance adjuster. I look at roofs and ceilings all day long

What's so bizarre? Does it upset the notion that every house is put into shipshape for sale and stagers brought in to work magic?

No. This is a shitty house built by someone "in construction" who never quite finished it. Then years later someone starting renovating it but got only as far as ripping some things out: an unfinished aelf-built house that someone tried to half-assedly self-renovate then got divorced or otherwise got distracted and said, "fuck it, sell it for whatever you can get, I'm done."

Staging by Helen Keller and Company

That doesn’t scare me at all…I’ve renovated and flipped far worse. If I live near that, I’d buy it in a minute and double my money.

Yay thanks for doing your part to raise everyone else's rent Ritchie Rich.

This my tasteful friends, is a great example of piss elegant. Simulated marble bath, 80’s pastel glass chandeliers in a structure that obviously wasnt even from that era. What went on in that house — illegal immigrants, sex trafficking?

Do The Captains Obvious really think we don't get this is a house meant for flipping and are just having fun with the photos?

So many DLers are the kids who raised their hands to remind the teacher they forgot to write the homework assignment on the board.

[quote]no - there aren't that many leaves. That's probably from the squatters/drug users who brought them in.

Yeah, those leaves were probably just tracked in by customers who were visiting the Meth Lab in the basement.

I also think the picture of the electrical box is one (of the many) red flags

It may mean this house doesn't currently have electrical

It probably doesn't not meet minimum occupancy standards - it looks like a teardown to me

You would need an estimate from a contractor to bring it back to minimum occupancy standards

Or an estimate to clear the lot and bring it a condition to rebuild on

If this house isn't connected to local water and sewer

that's an indication it's been vacant for some time

Most communities require connection to local sewer, water, and other utilities when available

I like the street it’s on and it has good bones.

This listing gives the size of the lot but NOT the size of the house

This house can't be legally occupied in it's current condition - they're selling the lot

(and you can pick up those good bones from the curb when they level this dump)

Good bones like Rocky Dennis...

You would have to pay to deal with the natural gas lines, sewer, and other issues before you could even start demolition

Get permits, inspections for all of that...before you start to clear the lot

Some flippers don't anticipate surprises that can create expenses that far exceed the original purchase price

At one point it was a nice-ish place. The stained glass and that gaudy light fixture over the bathtub weren't cheap.

[quote]At one point it was a nice-ish place. The stained glass and that gaudy light fixture over the bathtub weren't cheap.

A Very Special ABC Afterschool Special - The Day Daddy Left Us for the Interior Decorator

Why the UK Version of Pretty Much Anything Is Superior To The US Version

What a dump

WELCOME TO MORTVILLE, LADIES!

Dim bulb @ R54, please read R56. Clearly no one here understands what they're looking at in these listing photos.

It's a good thing then we have R67 to enligjhten us

How frustrating it must be for you!