A phone call changed our destiny.
Will the cost too much to renovate ? Now.. it could be, and thats what this blog is all about.
It has been tenanted for, well, probably 5 to 10 years? Perhaps further enforced our impression that more job may need to be done to make it user-friendly.
To summarise it, I can safely say that this house's extended kitchen and upstair rooms had literally broken into half !
The picture on the right shows the red crack, which is due to the sinking soil under the kitchen extension. Was it due to poorly constructed foundation? Or due entirely to the soil structure? We didn't know.
When my wife and I saw the condition, we just went ' Oh oh ... '.
When our property agent friend called up and told us there are an old house open for sale, my immediate response was to ascertain some criteria to be fulfilled.
Is there a small space available ? yes ..
Is the house reasonably priced ? well... not bad it seems ..
Is it near to where I work ? It is, no doubt ..
Will the cost too much to renovate ? Now.. it could be, and thats what this blog is all about.
The fact is the house is more than 30 years old probably gave us a faint idea how much we need to dump in to fix it back up again.
It has been tenanted for, well, probably 5 to 10 years? Perhaps further enforced our impression that more job may need to be done to make it user-friendly.
So we committed nonetheless, finally acquired the building with tenants in-place.
Middle of this year, we finally manage to get in to have a closer look inside every rooms. And there we went in for a surprise.
To summarise it, I can safely say that this house's extended kitchen and upstair rooms had literally broken into half !
The picture on the right shows the red crack, which is due to the sinking soil under the kitchen extension. Was it due to poorly constructed foundation? Or due entirely to the soil structure? We didn't know.
When my wife and I saw the condition, we just went ' Oh oh ... '.
It did not look good. Not a bit .
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