Residential house from the 50s, good condition, renovate or sell?

  • Erstellt am 2023-08-31 23:48:35

BauPaar

2023-09-01 00:40:54
  • #1
160km one way, train ride about 2-2.5h if exceptionally without construction sites, home office for the "child" *g* only 1 to max. 2 days/week, so too often for permanently just living there...

My suggestion "Mon+Fri HO, Tue-Thu with camper to the office" was rejected as unqualified :P
 

Pinkiponk

2023-09-01 08:14:48
  • #2
Since your headline says "Renovate or sell?" I would like to ask whether the topic is currently relevant or lies in the more distant future. I have not quite understood the time horizon yet. I do not know your relationship with the co-heir, but I certainly would not want to live so close to "relatives." Are you sure that both of you (!) will get along not only well but very well with the co-heir permanently? Are there emotional or other types of obligations attached to the "co-heir relationship"? New houses can also be noisy. If you notice "the extreme sound transmission throughout the whole house" that might be a point to pay special attention to even in a new build. Does the old building have charming details that new houses no longer have or that are no longer affordable? Such charming details can sometimes outweigh everything else. (I would have kept our old 50s house and preferred it over our new build if it had been in the right area.) Would you like to post some photos of the house here or is that not possible for reasons of discretion?
 

11ant

2023-09-01 10:57:33
  • #3
Does this also apply to the

the object that is the subject of this thread?
 

hanghaus2023

2023-09-01 11:14:57
  • #4
Pictures and plans say more than 1000 words.
 

BauPaar

2023-09-01 15:27:39
  • #5
The topic is currently relevant insofar as the property belongs to a relatively recently widowed almost 70-year-old lady (and is lived in by her alone), whose children (around 50 ;), two children and a son-in-law) help with the 'management' and especially organization, since the lady has not had to take care of anything so far...

The co-heir is one of the lady’s two children...

Definitely, it’s just a question of whether that could be fixed (in the sense of 'reduced', getting rid of it completely is probably hardly possible) in the old building without a full renovation, or whether it would be so complex that a new building would be more sensible.

Hmm... very good thought, I will bring that into the discussion :) – I am just the son-in-law who is still the most technically savvy (you know, among the blind the one-eyed...), and handles contacts with authorities etc.

Basically, under the same conditions, I don’t really care whether you build new or ‘finish renovating’ the ‘old’ property, especially since quite a bit has already been done in the old building, some things (see driveway, fence...) *must* be done quite soon, and it will probably be quite some time before we move in…

More the latter…

Yes, because as mentioned, I also ‘look after’ mother-in-law for ‘stuff like that’…
 

11ant

2023-09-01 16:02:34
  • #6
"Almost 70" Drama Drama *laugh* today's grandma still rides her own motorcycle to senior coffee. At least it should be her herself asking about renovation possibilities here. After five minutes until the inheritance event, it certainly doesn't sound like that. Rather, it sounds like she doesn't want to move to the Shady Pine ;-) yet when you retire.
 

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