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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your best bet is to look for the houses that don’t sell the first weekend. Example - this is technically out of your budget, but if there was going to be a bidding war, it would have happened already. You’ll have a little more leverage than you would with the shiny new first weekend houses.

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Burke/6593-Meadowrill-Ln-22015/home/9766307[/quote]

OP here: Good advice, we thought the same and checked this house out yesterday.  It is a redfin flip: it's in horrendous condition, very awkward floor plan upstairs and downstairs, completely neglected structure and yard for decades.  They half-painted the walls in bright white, and attempted to paint original kitchen cabinets but failed so half of them show wood under and still filthy inside... with some weird vinyl-ish stick and peel backsplash in the kitchen and bathrooms.... We considered for a split second, then realized it's a complete reno, which could be OK, but then with the level of neglect I am scared to see what's behind the walls..... That asking price is beyond ridiculous, and as desperate as we are, we have limits :([/quote]

I wouldn’t buy that house either.

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OP you need to move to exurbs. This ain’t no flip, the current owner bought it new in 1984. Yes it not updated but that’s the best way to have quality on an old house, get it without DIY updates and have quality renovation done on the original.

Bad layout? Removing walls is generally quite cheap if not load bearing and even then usually it’s a $10k beam to fix and done.

You want turnkey HGTV on a SpikeTV budget, get out to exurbs already for your oversized house. How many kids do you even have?[/quote]

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