Saw some more houses today with B, the last realtor. He showed me one house for 1.3 a little farther from everything than I wanted. It was beautiful, on a super quiet residents only, parking lot-style street, but it didn't speak to me.
The next house was between the mercaz and shul. It's one of the original houses built in Ariel, so about 30 years old. Hasn't been fixed up, but the kitchen area is HUGE!!!. It has 2 yards, 4 bedrooms and a large-ish downstairs area. They want 1.15, but B is sure it'll cost us 1.1. I did see some water damage upstairs, so going to have a roofer give me an estimate on fixing it up.
It's been vacant for a while, so we could basically buy it immediately and start fixing it up.
Upsides - I get to design my own kitchen, yard, proximity to shopping and shul, price, option to expand out 2 extra rooms upstairs, guest bathroom on main floor, a well built house.
Downsides - a little smaller than the other places we saw, distance from Rova Bet, needs work, 30 year old house
Oh, and did some preliminary searching - for what we're saving by getting this house - about 150,000 NIS - I can almost turn it into my dream house. Kitchen, downstairs floors, AC in rooms and more.
Going to ask B for number of roofer today and get the ball rolling.
Oh, and heard back from E - they're not dropping below 1.27. Another house on their block just sold for 1.35.
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