Would you live in this house?

[Gothic Sponge]

Poll question: Would you live in this house?

[molly]

1. It has promise.

[Unperson 309]

20. How About this One?!

I'd love to know where this one is located! :D

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. As long as my current roommates aren't living there,

I'd like in downtown Tikrit for christ's sake.

[sundog]

3. Looks like something out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Beetwasher]

4. Looks Like a Nice Piece of Land and What a Beautiful Tree!

It's a fixer upper for sure, but, yeah, why not?

What state is that in?

[mrboba1]

5. looks a little too small...

and destroyed. On the right - is the bottom of the house on the side splitting away from the front?

[ILeft]

6. Location, location, location.

Is it near the beach?

[johnnie]

7. Sure

As long as I get to fix it up a bit. You know? Add cable, get a sauna, build a wet bar....that should do it.

[wildflower]

8. Voted 'yes' because

I don't think I'd want to fix it up via Home Depot; I'd rather restore it by some other means. But I think it could be lovely.

[japple]

9. Is this Boo Radley's house?

I think I would prefer living in the tree.

BTW, my husband was in real estate for many years and they called houses that looked like this "Radleys."

[SiouxJ]

10. I don't know if I'd live there in its current state

but damn! What a cool photo! Looks like Northern or Central California. Makes me homesick.

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing that this morning! :hi:

[short bus president]

11. Live in? Sure. Pay money for? Not so much.

Condemned houses can be especially bad money pits as "fixer uppers."

[skygazer]

12. Where'd you find a picture of my house!!!???

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Abandoned houses make me so sad. I always wonder

what their history is, and if they were home to happy or unhappy families and where they went.

[SoCalDem]

14. Looks like Kansas

That house has "possibilities" :)

[skypilot]

15. Isn't that the house that Carrie grew up in?

*

[redqueen]

16. Yes!

I would of course want to visit LOWE'S first... but I love the remote location and huge tree. :)

[One_Life_To_Give]

17. Asbestos?

Why do I get the impression that place is full of stuff that is very expensive to get rid of?

[Xithras]

26. You can get rid of asbestos yourself, or you can just seal it in

Quite a bit of the asbestos hype in houses is scare tactics, and the removal teams only wear the bunnysuits because they are constantly exposed to it. Anybody with a $30 respirator, a sharp construction knife, a good pair of gloves, and a lot of patience can remove their own asbestos (you just slice it into clean chunks and remove it without stirring up a lot of dust). When you're finished, a shopvac with a HEPA filter can clean up any dust.

For those too scared to go that route, there are easy spray on chemicals that encapsulate the asbestos in a plastic compound to prevent it from breaking and creating a health hazard.

This bigger danger in a house like this, believe it or not, is actually lead based paint. Asbestos is relatively easy to deal with, but lead based paint will cover every square inch of both the interior and exterior of the houses, AND it will be absorbed into the topsoil surrounding the house in great quantities. Stripping and repainting a house that size is a time consuming end expensive proposition whether you do it yourself or hire outside help.

[yellowcanine]

18. A little paint could do wonders for that house - but I still wouldn't move

in - reminds me of "The Money Pit".

[LynzM]

19. I'd probably camp outside!

I mean, look at that view! :)

[Debi]

21. What do the signs say?

:shrug:

[baldguy]

28. "Condemned"

"No Trespassing"
"Enter At Your Own Risk"

Does the Home Depot have home exorcism kits?

[terrya]

22. Get Thom Filicia and his magic in there...and voila!

A palace. :-)

[nicolemrw]

23. it would be gorgeous

if it were fixed up. just what i'd love to own some day.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. How close is the nearest freeper?

500 miles or more, and I'd move in a heartbeat.

[Xithras]

25. I spent two years looking for a house just like that

A classical fixer upper in a country location with a beautiful view. I finally got tired of searching and bought a xerox home in suburbia :(

Where is that anyway?

[Gothic Sponge]

27. BTW, i should mention the house is haunted.

These people claim it is:

http://www.haystacklanding.com/history.html