Purchase opportunity single-family house from the 80s - risk?!

  • Erstellt am 2022-10-17 11:37:43

henning181

2022-10-27 17:56:59
  • #1
Hello,

I would do the following.
Calculate or have calculated the costs for an extensive renovation. I did that back then with the architect. You will be shocked by the cost statements and then prioritize. The advantage is that you know what will roughly come your way in the future and what you are really paying for the house and what you really get!

Personally, I consider 100,000 euros feasible for the renovation with a lot of personal effort, but whether you like it in the long run is another matter. Because then you might pay 2,500 euros per month for a compromise. You have to want that, and there is no right or wrong.

Regards
 

BackSteinGotik

2022-10-30 10:24:28
  • #2


Have you received feedback from the bank and the seller by now? I personally consider €2500 quite a hefty chunk. How much budget for renovations is included in that, and what is your detailed cost estimate?
Is your current savings rate at around €3000 minus rent monthly? In other words – can you comfortably afford €3000 just for living expenses per month? Considering that ownership wasn’t that important to you in earlier discussions, this here looks a lot like FOMO. Are the jobs stable enough?

What was your “earlier”(TM) approach for the monthly payment? €1600, €1800? I find it important to soberly ask yourself why you suddenly want to pour in 50%+ monthly if you previously had a very different pain threshold?
Personally, that rate would be too high for me given your income, and the price for the property at current interest rates is ultimately too. Then there’s the question of renovation/refurbishment – €50,000 can quickly be spent additionally, because once you start, you usually want to finish properly. Or are you DIY craftsmen who like to live on a construction site for several years? Then it looks different. But do you then have enough money left to continuously save the missing capital in parallel to the rate? In other words, do you have a significant savings rate remaining?
 

Alibert87

2022-10-31 16:46:14
  • #3
Thanks for the assessment, it’s not about whether we can afford it. That would work, even with an installment of 2500 euros. The question is whether one should do something like that (yes, only we can know that). We have always had a savings rate of about 25-30 percent. No unnecessary big expenses;
 

Alibert87

2022-10-31 16:55:53
  • #4

Yes, that’s correct. €2500 is a lot of money; actually, we don’t want that. The gut feeling and well-being is more around €2000 (also a lot of money just for living).
No job is secure, but ours definitely are. Although we would always find something else… I’m not worried about that.
According to the appraiser, about €20,000-30,000 are mandatory repairs, everything else is optional.
What we want to do immediately:
A large new bathroom, new floors and walls upstairs, partially new flooring over tiles downstairs, new kitchen, small improvements.
The first phase would then be about €100,000 in the plan.
 

Alibert87

2022-11-05 10:01:55
  • #5
repeated update: since the financing for the property is now "secured," the price negotiation is now underway. The rate would be around 2200 (depending on the purchase price now) Goal: around 2000 euros

I wanted to hear some assessments on where I should set the price so that the buyer doesn’t drop out or block immediately.
so 570TE, my goal would be around 510 TE
(Bank and appraiser estimate the price as okay despite the interest rate being renewedly increased)
??
 

hauskauf1987

2022-11-10 20:20:14
  • #6
And? Finally took the plunge ?
 

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