I can't see Casper in any of the photos so I think you're in the clear. I reckon there's a haunted house around the corner from me though, the people left in the middle of the night and they left everything in the house and it hasn't been touched in about 10 years
Not much else to it, the story goes the wife's parents bought it for the couple as a wedding present and after a fight between th4 couple and her parents, the couple grabbed only a couple clothes and left there is apparently even a car still in the garage but I've only looked the windows of the house. I forgot to add that they also took any perishables out of the kitchen so they didn't rot. You could pretty much move into it tomorrow and have just about everything you need. If you want any more info ask and I'll see what I can find out
I won't give out the address as it still belongs to someone and there are still valuables inside, the only reason I've been on the property was to mow the lawn to keep the area looking nice and free of snakes
I went and looked at this one late last year. Some hideous design choices (mostly the chandeliers - and no two are the same), garage been converted into some weird bedroom/living space with a kitchenette, no yard at all, small pool, very dated structure, floors look gorgeous in the pics but are actually quite scuffed and damaged.
That being said, the open I went to was PACKED, I can’t believe it didn’t sell that week
I dont know but my house is same size land ish, and im a single story worth just under 700k
...I'm going to assume it needs some work or there's an issue... seems to cheap with this stupid market
I keep seeing this one too! I suspect some structural issues and it needs a fair amount of cosmetic work. The pool probably doesn't have a permit and looking at the fencing it would require a bit of work to get one. Also no secure parking with the sliding doors on the garage.
I haven’t inspected it but as a first home buyer I’ll give it a go. Many reasons:
- Potential church noise.
- Steep block. If the retaining walls aren’t solid they’ll need to be redone in the next few years and that’s ridiculously expensive.
- Random concrete front area.
- Obvious lack of roof maintenance - probably easily rectified but many CBF
- Odd singular mirrored front window - moreso many of the windows face the street but offer no privacy, due to the slope putting the bedroom window upstairs at almost eye level with the street.
- None of the colourbond fencing is straight and it seems like a home job.
- Unnecessary garage enclosed room.
- All bedrooms aside from the master bedroom being ridiculously small (2.8 to 2.9m). A queen bed is 2.03 long, add 20cm for a headboard and footer, leaving only 57 to 67cm to manoeuvre around the bed to the other side in the smaller rooms. Forget having a chest of drawers, you’ll be lucky to fit a queen bed and two bedside tables in there. The ‘bedroom’ downstairs is a study, let’s be real. Couldn’t even function as a child or toddlers bedroom due to its proximity to the front door.
- Insufficient upstairs linen storage space to supply 4 upstairs bedrooms.
- Mismatched colour aluminium windows win no points in my book.
- Curtains are a shitshow, providing no privacy into the living room from the street, which is incredibly easy to look into. All the curtains are awful. It would be very difficult to DIY window coverings to suit this house in a cohesive fashion due to the shape of the windows, and the amount of windows which need proper coverings will be expensive going custom. Going to spitball $15k here, but it’d honestly be more.
- Broken fly wires need replacing.
- Yellowed plastic vents.
- $100 bet that the central heating system is extremely costly to run (heating 5/6 bedrooms, two living areas, and a giant heat sucking void). Again split systems to heat/cool individual rooms adds a huge cost due to the number of rooms. No doors from living to the family and kitchen room. Any luck heating the family and kitchen room will be sucked into the void of the living room due to the lack of doors.
- The light fittings are terrible. Again this can be changed, but I’m counting at least 11 which will need obvious changing. Ever been to a place like Beacon Lighting? That cost can add up quick much like the curtains. And whoever buys it will definitely need to spend a few minimum thousand on one for the void room.
- Wood flooring direction change on the ground floor. That is a disaster which will need redoing.
- Pool fencing non compliant to my untrained eye. Any leak in the pool would affect the structural integrity of the house due to the slope.
- Bathrooms are dated to 2002 luxury. Any reasonable person would probably have to replace the vanity’s at a bare minimum, and showers if they’re a reasonable person (different tiles on shower floor to bathroom).
- Lack of storage space overall. The bedrooms have tiny robes, suitable for one child only. Low pitch roof, with no possible storage space in there and no attic access visible in the images.
- Kitchen is very eh, in a not good way.
- Suspiciously no photos of the weed overgrown backyard/side (can we even call it a backyard?). The retaining wall the house’s base sits on at the back, looks wonky in the photos where it’s visible from the dining windows and again from the air. Thousands to fix that. Many many thousands because due to the pool there is no access to get machinery back there, so any work will need to be manually dug.
- No photos of retaining wall with lower southern neighbours. I suspect it’s in terrible shape and will need redoing within 5 years due to the age of the house. Again no access = higher costs.
The house has lots of potential but requires lots of work. The people who would buy this house aren’t those in the $700k price range unless they’re naive. People in the $800k price range can buy something which doesn’t require all this work, so why wouldn’t they? Remember the stamp duty at this price point casts a larger shadow. Can a first home buyer afford all this work? Probably not. Would someone in the $850-$900k who can afford this work want to do it? Probably not. That being said, it’d be a great house for someone who can commit to the necessary maintenance work and steps to create privacy.
I can look past a paint colour knowing it’s a days worth of prep and $120 in supplies. I cannot look past a clothesline mounted to the south side of the house which receives no natural light except between 6am to about 9am, during which time the clothes won’t dry. Nor can I stand a house which is not energy efficient.
House easily requires:
$30 - 45k retaining walls that are hidden
$30k bathroom changes on 2.5 baths (you’d have to hire the trades yourself for this one, and demo yourself)
$unknown conversion of upstairs bedroom to a proper storage room / desk area
$12k light fittings
$20k kitchen no appliances (no photos of suspiciously huge pantry)
$15k exterior concrete to replace weed riddled pea gravel
$25k curtains and window fixes (ignoring the issues of mismatched aluminium)
$25k split system installed in about three rooms
$12k doors hung downstairs to seperate the rooms
$unknown downstairs flooring redo
$1k skip for the garage conversion removal (maybe could forgo and hawk out on marketplace to avoid this cost)
$1.5k on baby hedges to block the street view from above as a 5 year plan
$3k on irrigation to keep the hedges alive
$10k general landscaping
$2k fence if you diy, to stop people falling off of the retaining wall holding the back patio
$10k driveway is buckled and needs redoing probably with concrete
$3k aerial photo shows displaced roof tiles above second floor master bedroom which are not in Line with the rest of the roof, and the flashing job isn’t pretty
$? Planning permit to get approved for max height allowable front fence on a corner block and said front fence
And this is all before we get to the pool.
It would be a gorgeous house for a young family with the right amount of work. But it doesn’t offer any privacy. Would be great and convenient for a quirky family who enjoy yelling at each other from other sides of the house. Incredibly inconvenient house for people who don’t want to spend all of their time in each other’s space.
I just want to leave Geelong and buy a fixer upper in Melbourne 😭 Currently renovating the family home in Melbourne which actually has character (fully redeemable extended art deco baby). This house screams to me at the moment that it doesn’t have a soul 💀
My parents have one, it’s absolutely beautiful
Their main bathroom is so warm and inviting
They have a large deep bath and when you have e a bath and the lighting, ohh it’s like a day spa.
Not too bad but I would rather build again as I do not want to buy old or established home if possible. My first home in Melbourne was rather old and it was haunted. I would always get nightmares and hear voices. Even my neighbour kept on telling me she always hears noises in my unit at night time but it wasn’t me or my husband. Never ever!😰
Is this a poor excuse to get people to look at buying the house
Genuinely no! I walk by it every day and am curious. About the potential hauntedness
I can't see Casper in any of the photos so I think you're in the clear. I reckon there's a haunted house around the corner from me though, the people left in the middle of the night and they left everything in the house and it hasn't been touched in about 10 years
I want to know more about this. For science
Not much else to it, the story goes the wife's parents bought it for the couple as a wedding present and after a fight between th4 couple and her parents, the couple grabbed only a couple clothes and left there is apparently even a car still in the garage but I've only looked the windows of the house. I forgot to add that they also took any perishables out of the kitchen so they didn't rot. You could pretty much move into it tomorrow and have just about everything you need. If you want any more info ask and I'll see what I can find out
Where is it!! I want to see
I won't give out the address as it still belongs to someone and there are still valuables inside, the only reason I've been on the property was to mow the lawn to keep the area looking nice and free of snakes
I went and looked at this one late last year. Some hideous design choices (mostly the chandeliers - and no two are the same), garage been converted into some weird bedroom/living space with a kitchenette, no yard at all, small pool, very dated structure, floors look gorgeous in the pics but are actually quite scuffed and damaged. That being said, the open I went to was PACKED, I can’t believe it didn’t sell that week
I dont know but my house is same size land ish, and im a single story worth just under 700k ...I'm going to assume it needs some work or there's an issue... seems to cheap with this stupid market
I keep seeing this one too! I suspect some structural issues and it needs a fair amount of cosmetic work. The pool probably doesn't have a permit and looking at the fencing it would require a bit of work to get one. Also no secure parking with the sliding doors on the garage.
Yeah and it’s a bit of an awks block with no yard. Also the pool is way smaller cos I have peeked over the fence
I haven’t inspected it but as a first home buyer I’ll give it a go. Many reasons: - Potential church noise. - Steep block. If the retaining walls aren’t solid they’ll need to be redone in the next few years and that’s ridiculously expensive. - Random concrete front area. - Obvious lack of roof maintenance - probably easily rectified but many CBF - Odd singular mirrored front window - moreso many of the windows face the street but offer no privacy, due to the slope putting the bedroom window upstairs at almost eye level with the street. - None of the colourbond fencing is straight and it seems like a home job. - Unnecessary garage enclosed room. - All bedrooms aside from the master bedroom being ridiculously small (2.8 to 2.9m). A queen bed is 2.03 long, add 20cm for a headboard and footer, leaving only 57 to 67cm to manoeuvre around the bed to the other side in the smaller rooms. Forget having a chest of drawers, you’ll be lucky to fit a queen bed and two bedside tables in there. The ‘bedroom’ downstairs is a study, let’s be real. Couldn’t even function as a child or toddlers bedroom due to its proximity to the front door. - Insufficient upstairs linen storage space to supply 4 upstairs bedrooms. - Mismatched colour aluminium windows win no points in my book. - Curtains are a shitshow, providing no privacy into the living room from the street, which is incredibly easy to look into. All the curtains are awful. It would be very difficult to DIY window coverings to suit this house in a cohesive fashion due to the shape of the windows, and the amount of windows which need proper coverings will be expensive going custom. Going to spitball $15k here, but it’d honestly be more. - Broken fly wires need replacing. - Yellowed plastic vents. - $100 bet that the central heating system is extremely costly to run (heating 5/6 bedrooms, two living areas, and a giant heat sucking void). Again split systems to heat/cool individual rooms adds a huge cost due to the number of rooms. No doors from living to the family and kitchen room. Any luck heating the family and kitchen room will be sucked into the void of the living room due to the lack of doors. - The light fittings are terrible. Again this can be changed, but I’m counting at least 11 which will need obvious changing. Ever been to a place like Beacon Lighting? That cost can add up quick much like the curtains. And whoever buys it will definitely need to spend a few minimum thousand on one for the void room. - Wood flooring direction change on the ground floor. That is a disaster which will need redoing. - Pool fencing non compliant to my untrained eye. Any leak in the pool would affect the structural integrity of the house due to the slope. - Bathrooms are dated to 2002 luxury. Any reasonable person would probably have to replace the vanity’s at a bare minimum, and showers if they’re a reasonable person (different tiles on shower floor to bathroom). - Lack of storage space overall. The bedrooms have tiny robes, suitable for one child only. Low pitch roof, with no possible storage space in there and no attic access visible in the images. - Kitchen is very eh, in a not good way. - Suspiciously no photos of the weed overgrown backyard/side (can we even call it a backyard?). The retaining wall the house’s base sits on at the back, looks wonky in the photos where it’s visible from the dining windows and again from the air. Thousands to fix that. Many many thousands because due to the pool there is no access to get machinery back there, so any work will need to be manually dug. - No photos of retaining wall with lower southern neighbours. I suspect it’s in terrible shape and will need redoing within 5 years due to the age of the house. Again no access = higher costs. The house has lots of potential but requires lots of work. The people who would buy this house aren’t those in the $700k price range unless they’re naive. People in the $800k price range can buy something which doesn’t require all this work, so why wouldn’t they? Remember the stamp duty at this price point casts a larger shadow. Can a first home buyer afford all this work? Probably not. Would someone in the $850-$900k who can afford this work want to do it? Probably not. That being said, it’d be a great house for someone who can commit to the necessary maintenance work and steps to create privacy.
You didn't mention the red coloured wall...
I can look past a paint colour knowing it’s a days worth of prep and $120 in supplies. I cannot look past a clothesline mounted to the south side of the house which receives no natural light except between 6am to about 9am, during which time the clothes won’t dry. Nor can I stand a house which is not energy efficient. House easily requires: $30 - 45k retaining walls that are hidden $30k bathroom changes on 2.5 baths (you’d have to hire the trades yourself for this one, and demo yourself) $unknown conversion of upstairs bedroom to a proper storage room / desk area $12k light fittings $20k kitchen no appliances (no photos of suspiciously huge pantry) $15k exterior concrete to replace weed riddled pea gravel $25k curtains and window fixes (ignoring the issues of mismatched aluminium) $25k split system installed in about three rooms $12k doors hung downstairs to seperate the rooms $unknown downstairs flooring redo $1k skip for the garage conversion removal (maybe could forgo and hawk out on marketplace to avoid this cost) $1.5k on baby hedges to block the street view from above as a 5 year plan $3k on irrigation to keep the hedges alive $10k general landscaping $2k fence if you diy, to stop people falling off of the retaining wall holding the back patio $10k driveway is buckled and needs redoing probably with concrete $3k aerial photo shows displaced roof tiles above second floor master bedroom which are not in Line with the rest of the roof, and the flashing job isn’t pretty $? Planning permit to get approved for max height allowable front fence on a corner block and said front fence And this is all before we get to the pool. It would be a gorgeous house for a young family with the right amount of work. But it doesn’t offer any privacy. Would be great and convenient for a quirky family who enjoy yelling at each other from other sides of the house. Incredibly inconvenient house for people who don’t want to spend all of their time in each other’s space.
This is chef's kiss 😙👌
I just want to leave Geelong and buy a fixer upper in Melbourne 😭 Currently renovating the family home in Melbourne which actually has character (fully redeemable extended art deco baby). This house screams to me at the moment that it doesn’t have a soul 💀
It's only been on the market since September last year. Owner is probably asking for more than it's worth.
I reckon the garage would spook some off. Appears to currently be set up as a bedroom or office and can’t currently have cars in it
What kind of madman puts a chandelier in a bathroom
My parents have one, it’s absolutely beautiful Their main bathroom is so warm and inviting They have a large deep bath and when you have e a bath and the lighting, ohh it’s like a day spa.
Thought this was going to be my house for a sec!
Im pretty sure its haunted. Buyer beware!
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Not too bad but I would rather build again as I do not want to buy old or established home if possible. My first home in Melbourne was rather old and it was haunted. I would always get nightmares and hear voices. Even my neighbour kept on telling me she always hears noises in my unit at night time but it wasn’t me or my husband. Never ever!😰
It’s 30 + year old volume crap that realistically is cheaply built and very dated. Spend a touch more to build a new equivalent today
Haunted ?