Metal Roof - do people really like this? I can't understand…..

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Anonymous wrote:Why is that house priced at only $775,000 and not selling? It looks like a much more expensive property. Is it on a busy street?

No, the street is very nice. The house is gorgeous IMHO, but it is old. I can foresee lots if expensive repairs/maintenance/upgrades. The property itself is also very nice - not huge but not tiny either - just perfect.

I think the fact that it is old is intimidating for potential buyers like me.

If the roof, electrical and plumbing have been updated, you ate fine.

Yeah 'ate' totally fine, ignore insulation, basement dampness, tiny rooms, crap closed off layouts, plaster, asbestos, creaky floors, the list goes on for days

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is that house priced at only $775,000 and not selling? It looks like a much more expensive property. Is it on a busy street?

No, the street is very nice. The house is gorgeous IMHO, but it is old. I can foresee lots if expensive repairs/maintenance/upgrades. The property itself is also very nice - not huge but not tiny either - just perfect.

I think the fact that it is old is intimidating for potential buyers like me.

If the roof, electrical and plumbing have been updated, you ate fine.

Yeah 'ate' totally fine, ignore insulation, basement dampness, tiny rooms, crap closed off layouts, plaster, asbestos, creaky floors, the list goes on for days

Don't forget ghosts!

I love the house.

And I love metal roofs, but it has to fit the style of the house. I don't think it would work well on my boring colonial.

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Nothing says classy like metal roof and vinyl siding

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Anonymous wrote:I love them. Ours is a flat roof rowhouse so you can't see the roof, but I like it. And it is so sturdy.

+1! Ours is slanted, but nobody sees it. It reflects the heat to keep AC bills down in summer.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is that house priced at only $775,000 and not selling? It looks like a much more expensive property. Is it on a busy street?

No, the street is very nice. The house is gorgeous IMHO, but it is old. I can foresee lots if expensive repairs/maintenance/upgrades. The property itself is also very nice - not huge but not tiny either - just perfect.

I think the fact that it is old is intimidating for potential buyers like me.

If the roof, electrical and plumbing have been updated, you ate fine.

Yeah 'ate' totally fine, ignore insulation, basement dampness, tiny rooms, crap closed off layouts, plaster, asbestos, creaky floors, the list goes on for days

Op here. I don't know about the rest - well, the floors were a little bit creaky but in a charming kind of way and I think you are right about the insulation; however, I must say that the rooms were huge. Not in a bad way, just very spacious and nice. Even though it was not an open floor type of thing, it didn't NOT feel or seem cramped or claustrophobic at all. The bathrooms were wonderful and I was surprise by the amount of storage available (I thought it would be terrible).

The layout was really nice actually, but I didn't check the basement because by then I had decided it was not for us and we had visited 9 houses prior to this one and I was exhausted (36w pregnant with a preschooler in town).

A very charming house indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:Love metal roofs. They last a long time, rarely leak if constructed properly, and they keep your house cooler than other materials. They are popular in the west/southwest because of how they reflect (not absorb) heat.

"They last a long time"

I've never seen one last longer then 15 years before needing major repairs and I live in a place where most the buildings have metal roofs.

"rarely leak if constructed properly,"

They leak after about 5 to 10 years, especially if you don't keep up with the maintenance on them.

"and they keep your house cooler than other materials"

They really don't. I've lived in both and the house with the metal roof was the hardest house I've ever had to cool, my old 1900 stucco with single pained windows from the 1920's and no insulation was easier to keep cool then the more modern house with a metal roof that my grandparents lived in.

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We have a metal roof on our front porch, shingles everywhere else. The problem with the metal roof is snow on the southern facing side. The metal roof heats up and the snow slides off. If you are walking by at the wrong time you can get pummeled by the snow falling off. Neighbors across the street facing north don’t have this issue as much.

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We had a metal roof over our addition and chose to replace it with an asphalt roof. It was only 20 years old but had developed big rusty spots. It konked out faster than the asphalt roof over the main part of our house. We had just moved into the house a few years before, and soni can’t speak to the quality of the roofing material or to prior maintenance. But, trust me, metal roofs do not always last ‘forever’.

In addition, ditto to what a pp says about snow sliding off a metal roof. We had a veritable avalanche during Snowmagedden, which also damaged our gutters.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is that house priced at only $775,000 and not selling? It looks like a much more expensive property. Is it on a busy street?

No, the street is very nice. The house is gorgeous IMHO, but it is old. I can foresee lots if expensive repairs/maintenance/upgrades. The property itself is also very nice - not huge but not tiny either - just perfect.

I think the fact that it is old is intimidating for potential buyers like me.

That's the 2014 sold price. Current price is $1.2M IIRC.

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We bought a rowhouse with a metal roof. It was completely rusted with actual holes in it. We replaced it with a bitumen roof.

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I just finally tracked down who manufactured our aluminum roof and it turns out it was installed 30 years ago! There are barely any signs of age, I had guessed it was installed shortly before we bought the house 8 years ago.

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My parents got one ten years ago and they love it. They install it right on top of the old roof, and it's virtually indestructible. We have never heard the rain, but maybe because they have an attic over the whole house?

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Anonymous wrote:Many people love the way they sound in rain.

I would love this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is that house priced at only $775,000 and not selling? It looks like a much more expensive property. Is it on a busy street?

No, the street is very nice. The house is gorgeous IMHO, but it is old. I can foresee lots if expensive repairs/maintenance/upgrades. The property itself is also very nice - not huge but not tiny either - just perfect.

I think the fact that it is old is intimidating for potential buyers like me.

That's the 2014 sold price. Current price is $1.2M IIRC.

low price for vienna

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Anonymous wrote:The more I look at this house the more I love it. Too bad it's surrounded by ugly split levels.

ITA. You can tell when the old original house had to sell off its land by the development around it. Great old house