Reality sucks sometimes :)

As you might have read in one of my previous posts, we are searching a new place to live. We have sold our house, boy that went fast, and are looking for a nice house just outside the town we live in now (Zutphen).

I saw a house in Vorden on Funda which looked very good on the pictures.

The front of the house

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The livingroom

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The kitchen

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The garden and the rest of the property

I was really impressed by how the pictures looked, the hous was prized a bit high, but if you don't have to do a lot of stuff afterwards that makes up for it doesn't it?

My wife is always very secure and looked up the house at the "Kadaster" that is the organization in the Netherlands which holds all the information about property sizes, when a house is bought, sold etc. She found out that this house was bought by the current owners about a year and a half ago, so they have this house quite short. The bought it for € 120.000,- less then the price they are selling for now. That seems strange but at the other hand they have restored it and in a year the Dutch housemarket was exploding so I gave it the benefit of the doubt..

I made an appointment with the estate agent to have a on site look at the house and the property which was today. When we arrived at the house the agent told us that we had to look a bit trough the mess because they just had a nest of puppies and it was quite hectic. When we walked into te living room there was this terrible smell of amonia (dog piss?!) and the smell of wet dog... It was just awfull but ok, manageable afterwards.....

As good as it looked on photo, in real the plaster on the ceiling and walls were already in a bad shape, and we did know that it wasn't olderd then one year. So the people living in the house aren't very keen on their stuff. When we walked upstairs it was the same, everything was restored with to much speed and to little quality, I really didn't expect that.

The house has two bathrooms, but only one was new. The other one was still like if it came out of an Starsky and Hutch episode. :)

The Starsky and hutch bathroom

Upstairs all the windows where single glass, so no isolation. When we have to replace that with isolated glass it would cost a lot extra.

The estate agent asked us what we thought of the house. I gave him my honest opinion that we we're quite dissapointed. The pictures showed a different view then the house is in reality. For instance, the garage is totally wrecked, there has to be build a complete new one. We told him that with the price they asked it had to be more complete and finished then it is now and that we expect we need another 50 or 60K to finish it and that we arent prepared to do that. I was quite surprised because the estate agent agreed and said that this is a problem for the owners, a lot of people are comming for a on site visit but when they see the ammount of work still has to be done they loose interest... (same for us).

So we are a bit dissapointed, but tommorow there is a new day, and who knows what it will bring... So we will keep hunting for a house.....never give up :)

Have a great day!!

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