Would You Buy This House?

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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:19 pm

Edit: subject changed to lower case - drwho

Apartment for sale in Brisbane, Australia. Would you buy this house?

I think this lad may be interested after he picks up his loot at MoneyGram!

Cheers.

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:22 pm

Of course I would put an offer on the home! Lower the asking price due to the tacky paint job, you should be able to lower it quite a bit really. The home owner is just silly for not repainting the home and making it look a little nicer.

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:25 pm

Wow. Who decorated that place? A six year old girl? I would cut the price by $15K just to handle all of the pink/flowers everywhere. puke

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

I'm with YW, where's the sick bucket...?

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:07 pm

Rose bushes belong OUTSIDE!!

Baiting Guru Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 2163

i think it's fine as it is

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:35 pm

Hey, it's not nice to make fun of the way Professor So and So decorates his house. Now, it's not the way I would do it, as I am a real man. But the Prof has his preferences. He and Harry Bawls had many fights about that when they decided to finally move in together, but Prof wears the pants in that relationship.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 720

In Australia when selling your house you have auction days when dozens of nosey bastards take a look at the home with no intention of buying,. What does it matter what the sellers taste is in decoration you buy the frigging house and decorate it to your taste which of course in turn other people will not like.

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:23 pm

Sure I'd buy it. It's nice on the outside, looks big inside. The current owners would be taking the floral extravaganza with them upon departure anyway. I'd ask for a serious price cut since the kitchen would have to be gutted to get rid of those cupcake & rose cabinets plus the paint job to banish the rest of the rose parade on all the walls. Unless they were willing to repaint , then I'd still ask for a price cut b/c the kitchen & bathroom cabinets are still rose/cupcake infested.

@ Jojo Yes real men are daffodil enthusiasts, not everyone can carry it off like you can. Laughing

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:42 pm

I hate it here at work ... I cant see any of the pictures they have somuch stuff blocked

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:47 pm

^^ Count yourself among the lucky in this instance.

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:51 pm

Viewing houses for sale is very much like making love to a beautiful woman...you make some small talk then when you eventually get upstairs in the bedroom the size often disappoints.

I watch loads of daytime property progs in the UK on TV. It's amazing how many buyers cannot see past the decor and the furniture, and how many sellers won't listen to advice from professionals to neutralise the decor
and clutter for a sale. Then they wonder why it doesn't sell.

Sellers need to emotionally detach themselves from their home. It's no longer a home, it's a house that they are trying to sell. Buyers make a decision about a property within the first eight seconds of viewing it. Personally, I would gone home with a migraine in half that time after viewing that Laura Ashley tribute hell.

Just as an aside, that Sarah Beeney is quite fit. Laughing

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:11 pm

One time when my husband & I were looking at properties the house was so disgusting & filthy I actually asked the realtor if I was on TV. Laughing

She seemed confused, why I don't know given that there was an old empty pizza box complete w/ gnawed crusts & an old lady bra the size of Kansas in the middle of the living room and other assorted trash, particularly of a personal, feminine nature, adorning the bedroom, sh*t stain brown carpet, big blue, white & orange floral wallpaper, & who knows what was in that bathroom b/c I was too scared to even peek. Anyway, I was like I'm on one of those sell your house shows I know it. Either that or Punk'd, which is it? She denied knowing what I was talking about, maybe she had to sign some kind of confidentiality agreement who knows. We were even willing to buy it despite the landfill decor b/c it was huge w/ tons of closet space ( Very Happy

), but the old bat refused to come down on her price, even tho it had been on the market for well over a year (I know, BIG SHOCK). We called the realtor like 6 mos later & it was still on the market & she was still refusing to come down on the price or agree to sell at her price if she painted, got rid of the carpet & have the place professionally cleaned. That was about 4 years ago, I bet if I called today that place would still be for sale. Laughing

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 589

I love the colours puke

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:39 pm

Yeah, I'd buy that gorgeous house...if all three of these conditions were met.

* I were 14 years old.
* I were more of a girly girl than I actually am.
* I were blind.

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:19 pm

Have we not watched "Designed to Sell"? Neutral colors only! I would buy the house only if my doctor would give me lots of drugs that would make the pretty flowers dance on the walls. Laughing

Actually, you have to wonder whether this person had very many friends in real life that came to the house.

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:41 pm

I just realized what that house reminds me of, interior decorating-wise.

It's the Barbie Dreamhouse.

Luckily, it looks like a lot of the rose-themed decor is mobile, and presumably the owner(s) would be taking it when they moved.

In small doses, the roses might actually be kind of nice, especially in the girly bedroom and maybe one additional room, but in much, much smaller doses.

The bath would definitely need to be neutralized if I were buying it. I'm not sure I could take that much girliness first thing in the morning.

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:12 pm

I love pink and I love flowers, but those pictures made me throw up a little in my mouth.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

Nothing a bit bucket of tartan paint wouldn't fix!

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:58 pm

Meet the guys who own it.

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:27 am

Belt-Buster wrote:

Now, it's not the way I would do it, as I am a real man. But the Prof has his preferences.

Jeeze jojo, you still are annoyed that I didn't go with the cheeseburger decor, aren't you? You'd think this place would be perfect for you when you consider the saying "stop and smell the roses". With all of the roses in this place it would give your fat ass an excuse to never move again.

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:29 am

I felt a rose-pollen allergy attack coming on just from looking at the photos. AHCHOOO! Sorry if I got any snot on anyone's monitor. These allergies can be a killer. Smile

Elite Baiter Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1702

Now if your asking would i buy a house that LOOKS like that then hell no.

However if you consider how well that home is maintained, and subject to a full survey etc, if all comes back good you have a very viable property, even if it does have an abundance of decorative fauna.

The bathroom, kitchen would drastically reduce the asking price with or without the old ladies flowrers, both need re-doing for the current market needs of modern families.

So as a house - depends really on a survey etc, but yea if its in as good a condition as its been kept its a worthy place - sod the flowers they can hit the previous owner in the back of the head as she maneuvers her zimmer frame over the steps to the removal van > Smile

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

Would I buy it like that?

Yes.

It looks to be in good condition, with some nice rooms. No one else would touch it, so I should get it for a discounted price - a discount that would more than pay for the painters and decorators that would strip out every rose and cute transfer in the place before I put one foot over threshold.

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:25 pm

jojobean wrote:

He and Harry Bawls had many fights about that when they decided to finally move in together, but Prof wears the pants in that relationship.

@jojo, it has been known for quite some time now that I prefer dresses, so of course Professor wears the pants......duh.

Would I buy the house? Sure I would. The way I would go about removing the old decor is this. I would invite jojo over and ask him to make a few laps around the table in photo #9. When he was done, all the decor would be stuck to his hips from dragging on the walls. Twisted Evil

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