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This damn house is driving me nuts. My wife bought it ten years ago and put her heart and soul (and 10s of thousands of dollars) into fixing it up. She brought it up to decent condition, then we got married and her daughter got divorced. She let the *&%$# kid move in and she trashed it. TRASHED IT and walked out. I mean she trashed it to the point where we're ripping some subflooring out because it's soaked with dog pee.
Wife is heartbroken over what her 35 year old adolescent brat did to her house. I'm buying it from her so she doesn't have to deal with it. She gets near hysterical every time she has to go over there.
I have a contractor friend starting on it soon. Monte is kind of laid back, takes twice as long as anyone else. He knows he's slow and charges accordingly, but is a real craftsman. I threw it up on Craig's list to see if anyone wants to buy it as is while I wait for Monte and I get realtors wanting to sell it for me and some jackshaft with a stick up his butt giving me a hard time about the listing. Here is my listing and his reply. What is so confusing about this listing, and why do his questions matter?

We are selling our nice 1956 ranch style home. Three bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, 3/4 basement, 2 car garage. It rests on a beautiful large lot backing up to a golf course. Brick exterior with aluminum trim, double pane windows throughout. The house has great bones - solid block foundation with no cracks, the high efficiency furnace, water heater, roof, and gutters are all less than 5 years old. It's in a great location with a nice, quiet neighborhood. The house next door sold for $200k last year. Did I mention it backs up to a golf course? We have started rehab on it, but can't finish it. Some landscaping has been done, the interior is gutted (some furniture is stored in it right now), the 1/2 bath is finished. The rest of interior needs to be restored. We are working on it when we get time, so the price goes up the more of it we get finished. We expect it to be a $170k house when finished.


So I get this email.

"We are working on it when we get time," then it’s "we have started rehab on it, but can’t finish it"?? Which is it??? The interior is gutted, but you expect to be a $170,000 when finished???* How you going to do that when you can’t finish it, again??