5 April 2011
We have been to the house. There are currently people living in the house. We had a walkthrough. It is a 4 bedroom house, with a lounge and dining room, and a kitchen and bathroom extension under a flat roof. It was as if we walked into a time capsule. Absolutely no maintenance was done for the last thirty years or so, except for the new roof and some weatherboards having been replaced. The inside walls are covered in sarking, which is horizontal timber boards and covered with scrim. Scrim was a finely woven hessian cover with wallpaper over it. The scrim is peeling off and the wallpaper is 1970’s vinyl paper. The bones are good, or so I hope. On the positive side, there are four fireplaces. (We might need it, the ceilings are 12 ft or 3.6m and there is no insulation)
We went outside and the agent asked me what I thought it was worth. I suggested a price way below the asking price. After some discussion, I made a higher offer.
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