Optimism?
5100 Forest Hill Ave, affectionately known as that house (among other things) is officially on the market. The price? $269,500. Given the Keystone Kops-style “renovation” this property has undergone (not to mention the mere $62k assessment from the city), I suspect that’s wishful thinking at best.
Anyone want to start a sale date/price pool?
Whoever makes an offer on that house better have a very good inspector. (Or they could just ask any of us who have watched the house during its “renovation.”)
I dunno, it might not be too awful. The biggest problem was the speed, not the quality. As long as there’s no mold in the back section where the bumpout is (the OSB was exposed for a while), and if the inside’s not cheaply done, it might be okay. They used metal framing on the upstairs addition, and the outside certainly looks better than the house did before they started (remember the paneless dormer windows and the teal trim?). They’ve even had actual licensed contractors there for the last phase, and what appear to be real permits in the windows.
I’m so freakin’ happy to see that property improved and FINISHED that I would be willing to raise the difference between the asking price and the assessed price.
I’ll put a jar on the the counter of CrossRoads Coffee Shop…it probably won’t take as long as the house renovations took. I have 15+ years right?
Caveat Emptor.
As far as renovation time, I’m not sure which took longer – this house or the one off Forest Hill, just past Willow Oaks Country Club on the right. Remember how long that one sat with the back addition rotting off of it?
I agree with Dan. There’s no way this house has gone unharmed by the fact it was exposed to the conditions for months (years?) without a roof. Wood rots when it is wet. And think of what kind of extermination job must have been needed when they decided to resume work? Ewww.
There have been many hearty guffaws from my family and friends over the “FOR SALE” sign in the mud of that front yard. The construction isn’t even finished (back deck, anyone? huge pile of construction debris in the back yard?). I really feel for anyone who considers buying that house. Buyer Beware, indeed.
Since every time I drive by, people waiting for the bus are sitting on the house’s front porch, I think the obvious solution is for the city to buy it and turn it into a GRTC transfer station.
Win-win.
I see the house now has a “For Rent” sign in the front yard.
I guess nobody bit on that “$1000 to move in” offer. Oh well.
Doesn’t this property still have a “condemned” sticker in the window?