This beautiful mess -- a rambling frame house with brick foundation in Peoria, Illinois. The house seems to retain a lot of original millwork, plaster and structural integrity.
The funny thing about the ad is the promise that the house will appraise for $40,000 after "remodeling." In St. Louis, our similarly large and similarly messy masonry home with stone foundation will appraise for $160,000 after rehab. This frame house would be worth no less than $100,000 after repairs if it were located in the city of St. Louis.
(Before you get too dismissive of Peoria real estate, check out this mansion that was "tuck-pointed 5 years ago with correct formula of lime, portland and silica sand" despite not having to be reviewed by the "hysterical commission.")
Are you suggesting that it might be enjoyable to live in a place where there is not a witchhunt every time one tries to take care of one's own neighborhood and defend one's own community? Are you suggesting that it could, potentially, be nice to live in a historic midwestern city where one does not get one's head bitten off for suggesting that eminent domaining homes for a Walgreens might be a tad bit unethical?
ReplyDeleteHow dare you?!? I am shocked, outraged, appalled, etc.... (Pssst.... You throw some clothes in a suitcase and I'll round up the cats!)