Comments on: From Ghastly to Green – a foreclosure purchase story (or how I spent my summer vacation) http://www.nesea.org/nesea-members/from-ghastly-to-green-a-foreclosure-purchase-story-or-how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-ghastly-to-green-a-foreclosure-purchase-story-or-how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation We Connect Sustainability Professionals to Ideas and Each Other. Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:06:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Jim http://www.nesea.org/nesea-members/from-ghastly-to-green-a-foreclosure-purchase-story-or-how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation/#comment-336 Jim Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:07:22 +0000 http://www.nesea.org/?p=3852#comment-336 One advantage of a foreclosed home is that there isn't an owner in residence to hover around when a potential buyer looks at the property. I strongly recommend taking the time to really look at the home, including standing in closets to look at walls that aren't normally seen, and looking at the back walls of cabinets. Walking the entire outside perimeter of the home looking for issues is also recommended. There is a great deal of satisfaction in taking a property from "rough" condition to a place where you can consider it "home", I'm sure they'll do well with it. One advantage of a foreclosed home is that there isn’t an owner in residence to hover around when a potential buyer looks at the property. I strongly recommend taking the time to really look at the home, including standing in closets to look at walls that aren’t normally seen, and looking at the back walls of cabinets. Walking the entire outside perimeter of the home looking for issues is also recommended.

There is a great deal of satisfaction in taking a property from “rough” condition to a place where you can consider it “home”, I’m sure they’ll do well with it.

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