Ancestral home for sale

xoxoxoBruce · 07-15-2014, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

It's the same maintenance as any other house, except for the mowing and driveway plowing.

Pre-WW-I houses are always full of surprises, and this one is very pre... and big with lots of joints and surfaces. That's what makes them so beautiful. Of course having been in the family so long gives you a leg up on condition and past maintenance.

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

You should see the piece of shit I've been looking at on the other side of the block, for $69k.

People around this house don't know what a block is. Add that word and the price would immediately triple or more.

Griff · 07-15-2014, 09:17 PM

Pretty close to Grifftopia as well... maybe that's why the price is so low.

Could be a nice B and B there's good mtn biking in the area.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-15-2014, 10:36 PM

Or a honeymoon B&B, which is not unusual for northeast PA. Hard to tell with a house like that, how difficult it would be to upgrade the wiring for all those hidden cameras though. Can't risk wireless with all the electronic gizmos folks carry these days one might pick up a stray signal.

Griff · 07-16-2014, 05:54 AM

Interesting piece on Wayne County.

http://plan.co.wayne.pa.us/CulturalR...esAnalysis.pdf

glatt · 07-16-2014, 07:30 AM

Oral history says it was two houses joined together, so the framing probably has some surprises.

The kitchen needs work. Its layout is horrible.

There is a cool cabinet that passes through from the kitchen to the dining room and has drawers that slide both to the kitchen and the dining room, and cabinet doors on both the dining room side and the kitchen side. You would want to figure out a way to save that, but you'd want to gut the rest of the kitchen and pantry and start over.

It used to have a huge bat infestation problem in the attic, but I understand my cousin got rid of them and sealed the attic framing with shellac to get rid of the musty smell the bats left behind.

The well works well, and septic is good. Heating is good. Oil. No AC. Electrical was updated about 20 years ago from a tiny old fuse box to circuit breakers and mostly new wiring.

My one cousin and her husband are both certain that it's haunted. For real. They claim to have witness ghosts on numerous occasions. Too many to count. They even brought in some ghost hunters from a nearby university club. But I've never witnessed anything, even living there for a few months. I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to ghosts. Maybe you have to believe for them to reveal themselves to you. So maybe it's haunted, if you believe in that sort of thing.

07-15-2014, 09:17 PM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Pretty close to Grifftopia as well... maybe that's why the price is so low. Could be a nice B and B there's good mtn biking in the area. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis Last edited by Griff; 07-15-2014 at 09:23 PM.

07-15-2014, 10:36 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Or a honeymoon B&B, which is not unusual for northeast PA. Hard to tell with a house like that, how difficult it would be to upgrade the wiring for all those hidden cameras though. Can't risk wireless with all the electronic gizmos folks carry these days one might pick up a stray signal. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-16-2014, 05:54 AM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Interesting piece on Wayne County. http://plan.co.wayne.pa.us/CulturalR...esAnalysis.pdf __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-16-2014, 07:30 AM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Oral history says it was two houses joined together, so the framing probably has some surprises. The kitchen needs work. Its layout is horrible. There is a cool cabinet that passes through from the kitchen to the dining room and has drawers that slide both to the kitchen and the dining room, and cabinet doors on both the dining room side and the kitchen side. You would want to figure out a way to save that, but you'd want to gut the rest of the kitchen and pantry and start over. It used to have a huge bat infestation problem in the attic, but I understand my cousin got rid of them and sealed the attic framing with shellac to get rid of the musty smell the bats left behind. The well works well, and septic is good. Heating is good. Oil. No AC. Electrical was updated about 20 years ago from a tiny old fuse box to circuit breakers and mostly new wiring. My one cousin and her husband are both certain that it's haunted. For real. They claim to have witness ghosts on numerous occasions. Too many to count. They even brought in some ghost hunters from a nearby university club. But I've never witnessed anything, even living there for a few months. I'm pretty skeptical when it comes to ghosts. Maybe you have to believe for them to reveal themselves to you. So maybe it's haunted, if you believe in that sort of thing.

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