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Originally Posted by aigel
+1 on that not being a fixer upper. You are nuts. You'll update and in 10 years it will be "old" again. Is your wife watching the home remodeling shows? That has cost a lot of my buddies a lot of unnecessary money. 
Don't get me wrong, if something is getting old and dilapidated, I remodel it, but if it is still clean and functional it only gets cosmetic refresh with new fixtures, paint etc. All the latest trends will look old again and the more "modern" the look the faster it will happen.
Coming from CA I have to ask, why are there so many homes for sale? It looks like half the town is for sale, 2600+ homes for sale in a town with a population of 20k!? Seems like a tough market to sell and even buy, because the selection is so large.
Good Luck with the "project"!
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Lots of old folks here. I’m not sure the average age here, but its up there. Also lots of snowbirds. Our house has been on the market for about 3 weeks now and it’s a bit different layout than what is popular. There were a couple of houses that we tried to buy that sold in the first week.
When it came to choosing homes that met our criteria, there really wasn’t that many to chose from. We wanted at least 2200’, and min 50’ of sea wall. Also had to be less than 30 minutes to the harbor. And of coarse had a max price we could pay. We did look at quite a few, but it really only came down to a couple that my wife liked.
As far as updating in 10 years, I can only hope. Previously to moving down to Florida we always had new homes built. But the wife was always making changes in a couple of years. My father was a home builder and that made things a little easier. And I also had many friends in the business, or could do much of the work myself.
I’ll be 63 in a couple of months and I plan on hireing out much of the work now, I don’t even mow the yard anymore.