Really Don’t Know What To Say About This Piece of Dallas Real Estate but That It’s Driving Me to Drink: Thursday Three Hundred, Take Two
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James Kunstler, whose name reminds me of William Kunstler, would call this home at 10233 Betty Jane near Merrel and Marsh an Eyesore. Or maybe even an Abortion. I really, really think it’s an opportunity. OK, let’s face it: an older person lived here and I will bet you it took five dumpster truck loads to empty this place. We collect STUFF as we get older and unless you make a concentrated effort to shed it, you can end up with a home that looks like an episode of HOARDERS. I also do not understand why this agent did not have more professional photos with this thing called lighting — hello, are you trying to creep us out? And the Flower Mound Squatter (he’s my hero, really) left the pool on Waterford in better shape — I mean, the pool was green but it did have water. Why take a photo of an empty icky pool? I thought you needed to keep water in pools to keep them from cracking? Is the trick here to emphasize the pretty clover shape and that oh so attractive hose?
But! The greenhouse! I have had to literally go get a shot of SCOTCH just to deal with this photo! Thank you, Glen Livet for softening the blow. That’s better. OK, what earthly good does keeping this structure do? It looks like a morgue where Invasion of the Body Snatchers could be filmed. I am sure it cost a pretty penny to clear this puppy, but think of how much larger the yard, which is 100 b y 269 feet deep, would look WITHOUT IT.
About that front yard. Sigh. Another shot of the Glen, you are driving me to drink! This home was built in 1954 and has great bones. It also needs to be bush whacked. It has four bedrooms, three baths, 3057 square feet, two living areas and a fricken diving pool in the shape of a clover. It also has a huge treed creek lot south of LBJ, inside the Loop. But it needs A LOT of work. I think it could be fabulous — yeah, almost every surface has to go. Who wants a project? Any church want that dark woodwork for a choir loft? And for God’s sake, let’s have a proper funeral for that greenhouse!
I hope you are sitting down for this one: they were asking $401,940. Reduced to $381,900. Darlings, what are you smoking?
(This house has WORN ME OUT!!!)
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Asking price is a delusion
It’s worth the land value near $180k
Agreed!
Asking price is a delusion
It’s worth the land value near $180k
Agreed!
$500 could get that place sold in an instant – A little staging, some professional pics – Right?
$500 could get that place sold in an instant – A little staging, some professional pics – Right?
@Critic: Totally. I'd even give them $200K but they will hang on, wasting time and money on lousy marketing materials and crappy photography… Realtors! Gotta love them!
@Critic: Totally. I'd even give them $200K but they will hang on, wasting time and money on lousy marketing materials and crappy photography… Realtors! Gotta love them!
The right flipper could make a bundle!!!
The right flipper could make a bundle!!!
And reduced buyer agent commission, bluh!
And reduced buyer agent commission, bluh!
I think my eyes are bleeding.
I think my eyes are bleeding.
Candy, you never cease to make me crack up laughing. Thank you! And yes, I think this house could be saved…. only at the right price!
Candy, you never cease to make me crack up laughing. Thank you! And yes, I think this house could be saved…. only at the right price!
Is that a skateboard park?
Is that a skateboard park?
Looking at all the pics, it's not that bad. It's pier+beam and probably has good bones. It needs some renovations. And it's on .6 ac in a nice neighborhood, with some great trees.
BTW, banks usually empty the pools when they take over a home due to liability (bad stuff like some kid could wander in and drown, etc). Almost all the REOs I've seen with pools have been emptied of water.
Looking at all the pics, it's not that bad. It's pier+beam and probably has good bones. It needs some renovations. And it's on .6 ac in a nice neighborhood, with some great trees.
BTW, banks usually empty the pools when they take over a home due to liability (bad stuff like some kid could wander in and drown, etc). Almost all the REOs I've seen with pools have been emptied of water.
I remember a few years back when that house was listed for somewhere around $600k. I think it sold for pretty close to that, and it was a jungle back then. I recall cages filled with squawking birds all over the house. What a nightmare.
I remember a few years back when that house was listed for somewhere around $600k. I think it sold for pretty close to that, and it was a jungle back then. I recall cages filled with squawking birds all over the house. What a nightmare.
This house needs to be bulldozed. HOWEVER, I love the big pine trees and the palms. A client of mine made a low ball offer in hopes to get it for land value. It is a great piece of land. I love the phallus shaped pool – classy!
This house needs to be bulldozed. HOWEVER, I love the big pine trees and the palms. A client of mine made a low ball offer in hopes to get it for land value. It is a great piece of land. I love the phallus shaped pool – classy!
Did they turn a toddler loose with a Fisher-Price camera? This is a personal pet peeve of mine. Grammatical/spelling errors in the listing write-up? Seriously? I think that agents should be fired for being so lazy that they don't even have someone else edit their listings. I have 10 acres for sale in Wise County and the listing is about to expire. I will not renew with the agent because she had errors in the write-up! C'mon, earn your money!!!
Did they turn a toddler loose with a Fisher-Price camera? This is a personal pet peeve of mine. Grammatical/spelling errors in the listing write-up? Seriously? I think that agents should be fired for being so lazy that they don't even have someone else edit their listings. I have 10 acres for sale in Wise County and the listing is about to expire. I will not renew with the agent because she had errors in the write-up! C'mon, earn your money!!!
Do the math….If in Two. Months period. The asking price was lowered $20k….. How many months do I have to wait. Till. The agent wil realize what’s the real vaue
Do the math….If in Two. Months period. The asking price was lowered $20k….. How many months do I have to wait. Till. The agent wil realize what’s the real vaue
@Lisa: I could not agree more. Here's my other gripe: some of the laziest agents get listed in a certain magazine's "Best Realtor" ALL THE TIME and they are D bags. (Pardon my pun!) Not only are they not top performers, they are space cadets. I had one list one of my properties and she was always either losing her phone, couldn't find it, or her battery was dead. We lost how many potential clients? Of course the magazine does it to get the ads, we all know that, but some people actually trust them! I will only get a Realtor now based on a personal recommendation from someone I know and trust.
@Lisa: I could not agree more. Here's my other gripe: some of the laziest agents get listed in a certain magazine's "Best Realtor" ALL THE TIME and they are D bags. (Pardon my pun!) Not only are they not top performers, they are space cadets. I had one list one of my properties and she was always either losing her phone, couldn't find it, or her battery was dead. We lost how many potential clients? Of course the magazine does it to get the ads, we all know that, but some people actually trust them! I will only get a Realtor now based on a personal recommendation from someone I know and trust.
This is bank owned…
This is bank owned…
This is evidence “they” walk among us. I know there are good realtors out there, however, recently I actually sent an anonymous email to a realtor just to have them get their photography right… and the next day they did it!! Sinking feeling at the thought of 3%.
This is evidence “they” walk among us. I know there are good realtors out there, however, recently I actually sent an anonymous email to a realtor just to have them get their photography right… and the next day they did it!! Sinking feeling at the thought of 3%.