p_bubel said:

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Classy

Cascade Oak

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The great Liverachi.

Garrelli 5000 said:

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p_bubel said:

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Classy

Cascade Oak

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The great Liverachi.

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rilloaggie said:

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This one isn't a total abomination like some posted here but more of a commentary of how freaking boring current trends are and how lame the flipper game is. This home was owned by an older fella in my neighborhood(bought the home in 1988) and they moved to a retirement place in May. The old listing shows very dated finishes and lots of maintenance needed but a house that looked like a warm place to live. It was priced accordingly and now thanks to the fippers, we have a grey/white hellscape interior. So freaking boring!

1507 Village Green Ct, Houston, TX 77077 | For Sale ($550,000) | MLS# 35588791 | Redfin

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the staging choices and more importantly the washed out phone pictures are just horrific.

rilloaggie said:

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This one isn't a total abomination like some posted here but more of a commentary of how freaking boring current trends are and how lame the flipper game is. This home was owned by an older fella in my neighborhood(bought the home in 1988) and they moved to a retirement place in May. The old listing shows very dated finishes and lots of maintenance needed but a house that looked like a warm place to live. It was priced accordingly and now thanks to the fippers, we have a grey/white hellscape interior. So freaking boring!

1507 Village Green Ct, Houston, TX 77077 | For Sale ($550,000) | MLS# 35588791 | Redfin

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Yeah that's a terrible flip. Cheap grey flooring and tile, cheap appliances, really bad shower, the whole thing is done wrong.

Thought yall would like this. I live in Meyerland where it flooded several times over the last decade.

They are going to extremes to make sure that never happens again.

that's a beauty.

all the inconvenience of a two story, without the added square footage or balanced aesthetics.

Diggity said:

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that's a beauty.

all the inconvenience of a two story, without the added square footage or balanced aesthetics.

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they have roughed up enough stuff that i'm assuming there is a remodel with added sq footage incoming. but, I'm also not sure why they didn't do more of that work before raising it up.

I live in the same area and have always wondered about the long-term structural stability of raising a slab like this. Most of those slabs were poured 60 years and, I assume, were intended to be supported by the ground beneath them. Now, these slabs are floating off the ground with maybe some beams and columns spaced out beneath them? I know people that have done it and haven't had any issues with cracking, but I find it hard to believe.

I'm not a structural engineer and haven't looked into what these companies actually do to raise the houses, so maybe my concerns are unwarranted...

How is it not more cost effective to just start over?

The Fife said:

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How is it not more cost effective to just start over?

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A lot of owners of lifted homes are given govt grants to do so. At least the several in my old area of clear lake they were. I believe same is true for Houston area.

agreed...but it was my understanding that the FEMA grants for those programs had expired. I have to imagine anyone doing that now is footing the bill themselves.

Yea that seems pretty likely but prices may have come down a bit because Daddy govt isn't footing the bill and demand has probably contracted quite a bit. Could have also got stuck in govt red tape hell. Either way it's quite a big job. I used to drive through Nassau Bay looking at all the jobs in progress. Pretty cool to see.

I'll try to go by there when it is brighter out. But, on another one in the neighborhood, they added lots of steel beams integrated into the slab.