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Beauty can be found in REOs...

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Driving by and doing a broker's professional opinion on houses about to be foreclosed can be sad.  Lots of times the people who lived there have tried to make the home lovely and livable.  This particular bpo looked pretty desolate from the front.  I'd been in it, however, and knew that it had been improved with a new bedroom and bath, granite counter tops and new floor coverings.

It was a classic example of "You can't make an old house into a new house....no matter how much money you spend."  It was sold to someone who then lost it and it became a foreclosure.  From the front it appeared to be an ugly little 3 bedroom 1 bath house with a carport.  Inside, of course, it was much better.

Looking at my bpo photos, I came across this photo of the mailbox.  It shows the love that someone had felt for this house.  And the flowers in the background set it off perfectly. 

Raymond Patterson
The Patterson Team @ Keller Williams Excellence - Lutherville Timonium, MD
President - Patterson Team Homes
Be careful not to get to attached to any property.  It will only break your heart in the long run.
Oct 28, 2007 05:21 AM
Beth Anderson
Goedert Real Estate - Tecumseh, MI
Realtor - Tecumseh / Lenawee County
I know what you mean, we have so many repos and sometimes they just tug at your heart strings.  It often seems that the families were in the middle of improving the homes.  Projects underway but unfinished and I wonder about what happened in the middle of making a home that led to being put out.  What really gets me though are the children's rooms, decorated with love and now empty.  One day this summer I was showing a repo and there on the deck was a little child's arm swimmy (the blow up bands to help a child keep their head above water in a pool) it hit me again that a family was making a home here and now where are they?   It made a wave a sorrow flow through me.  I can't wait for this awful trend to be over.  
Oct 28, 2007 06:34 AM