No Seperate Double Oven, Deal Breaker? On $1.5+ million

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I miss my old double oven. Our new house doesn't have one. So, no, it wasn't a dealbreaker. It will be part of the eventual remodel. But we spent 1.6, so that probably made all the difference,

As PP said would you consider a double oven range replacement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add, some people don't have much left in their budget after buying a 1.5 million dollar house to rip out a perfectly good kitchen and drop 90k.

OH boo freaking hoo. Seriously I'm crying in my coffee mug over here. What a sob story.

Good cause you are a douche

Oh, I'M a douche? And not the rich people bitching about the cost of ripping out their kitchen to put in a double oven? Riiiiiight.

[Anonymous]

If I could (will not be soon!) buy a $1.5M house...it had better than anything I had dreamed it could be!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of a double oven, but I live in a $500K house so maybe that's to be expected. I wonder what the next must-have will be: double fridge? wait, no -- double toilet!

Agent here and there are actually a fair amount of high-end homes which have "his 'n' her" toilets in the master bath. Yeah, I know.

I have a double-oven range - Kenmore Elite - that I love love love. It has a half oven on top which heats up in a flash which we use every day. The lower one is very large and suitable for turkeys etc. I used the hell out of it yesterday - I also cooked two legs of lamb!

And all the PPs are correct that one appliance should NOT be a dealbreaker on a $1.5M home, and the House Hunters PP made me spit out my diet Coke. So on point!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of a double oven, but I live in a $500K house so maybe that's to be expected. I wonder what the next must-have will be: double fridge? wait, no -- double toilet!

One for poop, one for pee.


But seriously, in very high-end homes, it is common (notice I didn't say STANDARD, but common) to have his and hers "water closets" in the master bathroom. Basically, a gigantic prep area to share with sinks, a $30K steam shower, wall-mounted anti-fog TVs ..... and then the whole point of a bathroom ? The place to take a shit indoors? Two smallish private rooms with just a toilet and a sliding door for each.

[Anonymous]

We have 2 ovens and never use both anyway. We have a nice toaster oven (the Brevin or whatever it's called) and end up using that a lot since it warms up faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add, some people don't have much left in their budget after buying a 1.5 million dollar house to rip out a perfectly good kitchen and drop 90k.

OH boo freaking hoo. Seriously I'm crying in my coffee mug over here. What a sob story.

Good cause you are a douche

Oh, I'M a douche? And not the rich people bitching about the cost of ripping out their kitchen to put in a double oven? Riiiiiight.

First off why would you advocate ripping out a new kitchen? 2nd some people aren't "rich" who buy 1.5 million dollar homes they may have been lucky and bought before the bubble and have kept trading up to the point where their mortgage maybe be very small.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add, some people don't have much left in their budget after buying a 1.5 million dollar house to rip out a perfectly good kitchen and drop 90k.

OH boo freaking hoo. Seriously I'm crying in my coffee mug over here. What a sob story.

Good cause you are a douche

Oh, I'M a douche? And not the rich people bitching about the cost of ripping out their kitchen to put in a double oven? Riiiiiight.

First off why would you advocate ripping out a new kitchen? 2nd some people aren't "rich" who buy 1.5 million dollar homes they may have been lucky and bought before the bubble and have kept trading up to the point where their mortgage maybe be very small.

Okay you win. You are a totally awesome human being because your biggest worry in life is whether or not your 1.5M home has a double oven.

[Anonymous]

Check the date, people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add, some people don't have much left in their budget after buying a 1.5 million dollar house to rip out a perfectly good kitchen and drop 90k.

OH boo freaking hoo. Seriously I'm crying in my coffee mug over here. What a sob story.

Good cause you are a douche

Oh, I'M a douche? And not the rich people bitching about the cost of ripping out their kitchen to put in a double oven? Riiiiiight.

First off why would you advocate ripping out a new kitchen? 2nd some people aren't "rich" who buy 1.5 million dollar homes they may have been lucky and bought before the bubble and have kept trading up to the point where their mortgage maybe be very small.

Okay you win. You are a totally awesome human being because your biggest worry in life is whether or not your 1.5M home has a double oven.

OK let's see

1) This is a real estate forum

2) The OP never said this is her biggest worry in life

3) It's A FUCKING real estate question and request for opinion

If you don't have anything to add to the OP's point GTFO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is up with the snark on here. I don't think this was even a bad question.

Thread topic has a misspelled word.

[Anonymous]

This is an April Fool's right?

If yes, well done! You gotchaed a bunch of folks here.

If no....sigh....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gosh I was just asking about how important a double oven is and if those 2 range options could be a substitute. I am not looking into doing much renovating and am looking at this one that's in mclean school district

http://www.redfin.com/VA/Falls-Church/6715-Walnut-St-22046/home/45105860

http://media.cdn-redfin.com/photo/57/bigphoto/984/FX8019984_9_1.jpg

Well that's not really what you asked. You asked if it would be a dealbreaker. And honestly when you're talking about spending $1.5 million on a house, it sounds extremely silly to suggest that something so easily remedied could be a dealbreaker. I mean really, how much could it possibly cost to add another oven to the existing configuration? $5K, $10K at the absolute high end? And you'd consider foregoing a $1.5 million house you like just for that reason??

This poster had it right. If the replacement of the oven to a double oven cost, say, $50,000, which is astronomical, it is only 3% of the total costs. The $5,000 or $10,000 seem like the more reasonable price. $10K out of $1.5 million = 0.6%, or, barely more than half of 1 percent. Thus, is it a deal-breaker? Of course not! However, if you ask the realtor to eat the replacement cost, then the deal might be broken! C'mon OP and people, the oven is never a deal-breaker on $1.5mm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add, some people don't have much left in their budget after buying a 1.5 million dollar house to rip out a perfectly good kitchen and drop 90k.

OH boo freaking hoo. Seriously I'm crying in my coffee mug over here. What a sob story.

I know, if you have no money left to buy a second oven, you should not be buying 1.5 mil houses!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$1.5 million is basically a starter home in McLeen. If you want a double-over, buils one in. Or for that price, you're probably getting a teardown anyway.

Wait. Is THIS sarcasm? I can't tell.

I did however count dozens of homes on the market today in McLEEN that are <1.5M and remodeled, elegant, what-not.

Well done!