WTF is wrong with it?Fell out of Pending at least 3x since 2021.Bought less than two years ago, now up for sale again. Pics indicate owner has bunch of little kids living in it, so WTF pull up stakes?Maybe he got a job somewhere and has to move???Weird design, but seems like it could be nifty to have nice big fully covered space just outside nice two car garage. Could greatly expand into semi-inside space by hanging some plastic greenhouse shit and a couple more garage doors for pass through.Gee, I wonder if he has Inspections and shit from the Loan he got less than two years ago???Schools are rated shit (for PA) but "student demographics" not that bad.https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/834-Kistler-Rd-Mount-Union-PA-17066/115859253_zpid/
>>2991909>abominations threadit doesnt look like a 3/4 ton pickup could make it into the backyard plus fuck going up and down stairs constantly maybe it floods often?
>>2991912>https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/834-Kistler-Rd-Mount-Union-PA-17066/115859253_zpid/ Full height straight shot.
>>2991912a truck could just go around and drive on the lawn.definitely a "custom" design, which IMO probably means better quality, and 1975 ain't too bad an era. Wood was still good, more or less modern, but not yet real crappy. Built by White Americans.Would that span have to be steel??? 24' 2x14?30' 4x16 semi-special order in 1975?
Google streetview seems oddly shy of the area.
>>2991918looks like that carport thing is bowing
That's a hell of a distance to free span, I wonder what framing members were used to create that platform...
>>2991912>maybe it floods often?This is what came to mind when I saw it. It is like a Queenslander or a house that has been elevated after it was built. This house isn't actually in Mount Union. It is in an unincorporated area called 'Wayne' and there is a borough between it and Mount Union: Kistler. Both Mount Union and Kistler have flooded a few times in the last hundred years. That said, this place isn't right on the river like they are and FEMA (however much they can be trusted) says flood risk is low.All that said, this whole area is dying. There's about 40k people in the whole county, but most of the boroughs have been bleeding population for decades, and the nearest 'city' is Huntingdon with only 7k people. Mount Union is half the size it was at its peak and it has been doing nothing but going down since the 1930s. They had a major flood in 1936 so, yeah, I'd be concerned. I mean, do you mind living someplace with shit services? The nearest emergency room is 25 minutes away. The schools aren't very good. It also has more dollar stores than grocery stores, which is a bad sign. The roads are also rather poor.I mean, if you come from the sticks you are probably used to stuff like this but if you lived in a decent sized town or city this place would probably suck.
>>2991909>WTF is wrong with it?First thing is that it's in the middle-of-fucking-nowhere Pennsylvania. You'd have to either be retired or work-from-home to make a go of this place.Very good chance it needs a roof.As pointed, out that add-on over the driveway is sagging and it's apparent in every pic. God knows what that's doing to the attachments to the main house particularly on the roof. Inspections likely turned up significant work needed and that's why it's repeatedly fallen out of pending. Considering that most things look better in pics than IRL, that amount of sagging has got to be disturbing in person
>>2991979Oh, and that industrial-looking eyesore immediately to the SE plays a role was well. Aerial in Maps shows the place looking mostly dormant but the aerial in the listing pics indicates much more activity with equipment and trailers backed right up to the property line. Possibly noisy at all hours and dusty in the summer.
OP here....thx, everyone!Yeah, too many red flags and while I am retired and also wanting lots of garage space, and I am an old carpenter so in theory maybe I could deal with structure funnies....just not that appealing since its not around any particular natural beauty and probably just dumb meth and fent heads.
>>2991909wtf
>>2991909Why is it so expensive?
>>2992024why does an old retired guy want a big ridiculous house like that?get a little 2 bed on a big property with a shop like a normal person
>>2992070my shop stuff might need some office space and I might do a WFH internet startup.
>>2992032the current retard owner bought it for $245k + 3% buying fee + probably $5k in fixed closing costs, which means a cost basis around $260k. a selling price of $275k less 3% selling fee is slightly above breakeven.
>>2992086the fuck is buying fee
I dont think that was raised by fema.I dont want to damn the roof without seeing morelooks to me like both ends of the house were additions. the outbuildings have galvie steel panelling all over them. Someone at some point clearly could build, and liked thatthe saaame as the underside of the carport thing. I think the columns and spacing on that looks like it prolly is shakey as hell even if it is steel. the block columns make me very afraid, its obviously not conventional.lally posts and a beam immediately, no more driveway, and get some fuckin 45 bracing on those postslook at the stairs from the deck. No triangles anywhere. I bet a person climbing those can damn near shake the housethats a long lever. steel is springy. wood loaded like that... might be too. who knows what it is, yikes x 1000
>>2992100buying and selling realtors both get a fee. both pieces aren't always paid for by the seller.
