Heart Broken!!!
Ok, so on our search to buy a home we have kind of taken a passave approach, we aren't searching the listings every day or in constant contact with our realtor etc.. but i saw this listing and the price is more than half of what things in the area are going for, i drove past it and it spoke to me, REALLY, my dream has been for well, i don't know from when but a long time, to convert a barn into a house.. this is usually not possiable because good old barns are usually not built as well as homes (because lets face it animals and hay don't need insulation or great building etc) so i know this and so my saying is usually when we make a million dollars we'll be able to do this.. anyway this house isn't really a barn but it has the most amazing barn attached to it and the house is red so it kind of speaks to my dream.. although even seeing it from the outside we knew it would need ALLOT of work, it was filled (we could see in some windows) with all sorts of junk, and the outside hadn't been mowed well pretty much forever.. well we saw the inside yesturday and it is just not doable.. it would need completely gutted to the studs and re done.. the upstairs (where 1 bath and 4 bedrooms are) were pretty much ready to fall down.. it had no heating system in it and the plumming and wiring wasn't even working.. not to mention that it was built in 1860's so it would have to be brought up to code. the owner is living in a huge bus next to the house (i know weird hua!) but i just LOVED the set up of this old house.. it had 5 living areas down stairs did i say it pretty much had no kitchen.. so yea dream squelched.. i even researched building home loans and i just think there is no way it is doable.. it would be more cost effective to build from scratch... BUT the barn, was AWESOME!!! i even had the slightest thought we could live in the barn while we remodeled the house (something Ben wasn't too keen on.... GEE wonder why??) I mean really it's amazing!!!
so bummer this dream squelched!!!