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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 14, 2018 22:34:59 GMT
SURREAL... www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/9501-Manor-Rd-Leawood,-KS,-66206_rb/ CRAP.. I can't get it all to link.. but if you copy/paste it will work. I lived in this house in the late 80s!! My mom and dad divorced (before this house).. my dad got remarried fairly quickly (3 months). .he didn't know her before the divorce.. but they got married and I stayed and moved with them instead of my mom (long story.. but my mom and I are tight).. my dad and stepmom bought this house right when they got married. It was defiantly a fixer upper... We called it "The Money Pit" .. literally the doorbell broke the first time it was used. The first time I used my shower the previous owner had taped all the tile to the wall with masking tape. They came crashing down around my feet. It was horrible but so funny at the time. We would just laugh when something would fall apart. Slowly they got it fixed up over the years. But shortly after I moved out, there was a fire that pretty much gutted it, more from the water than the fire. So then they really got it revamped to almost what it looks like in the pictures on Zillow. That front door is the one they picked. I swore up and down I was going to take that door with me one day.. I LOVE that door.. and still looks good! (I think).. They bought that house for $89,000 in 1986. Sold it 10 years later when they divorced for $250,000 and now they are asking $475,000!! It's so weird to see it. The one thing is that there is a pool in the backyard buried in the ground. They must have filled it in at some point.. which was kinda sad because my dad/stepmom totally redid the pool almost from scratch... so wonder why these people filled it in.. guessing either they just didn't want it or maybe it was "The Pool Pit".. lol |
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Post by ladytrisha on Dec 14, 2018 22:54:21 GMT
That door is gorgeous! The wall of windows is spectacular; the wallpaper in the bathroom not so much LOL
My husband and I drove down our old street (our parents lived across the street from each other when we were in Jr. High).
We didn't even recognize his house at all - all the things that made it his home are gone - trees, bushes, paint colors, trim, everything gone.
We literally stopped the car and went wait what - my parents bought the money pit - there was always something going on with our side of the street!
I can't drive by my parents house that's local to us - the family that bought it destroyed it and it's heartbreaking to see. And Google earth shows the pool as bright green and the yard full of dead plants. I seriously have no idea why people spend so much money on a house when you know they are better off in an apartment or condo. If you don't like yard work, don't get one!
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Post by AussieMeg on Dec 14, 2018 22:55:06 GMT
How cool to see your old house for sale! Have the latest owners changed much about it from when your dad and stepmum lived there? And yes, that door is gorgeous! (ETA: Not so much the wallpaper in the bathroom though!) I would love to see the inside of the house that I grew up in. I lived there from when mum and dad built it in 1968 until I moved out in 1996. It still had the original bathroom and kitchen when dad sold it in 2005. I'm curious to see whether the new owners have renovated. The houses in that street are now worth around the million dollar mark, which is insane to me for 50 year old houses. ETA: I just checked the real estate website and dad sold our house for $389,500 in 2005 and the estimated value range is now $800,000 to $1,100,000. Dad wishes that he kept hold of it as an investment. So do I - that could have been my inheritance!  |
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Post by Lexica on Dec 14, 2018 22:55:58 GMT
The bedrooms are really spacious in your old home. I like that. I hate when a bedroom is barely big enough for the bed and no other furniture, not even a dresser or night stands.
I would have to tear down that heavy-feeling green flowered wall paper and paint all the dark color-saturated rooms more to my comfort level, but other than that, it looks ready to move in.
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Post by KelleeM on Dec 14, 2018 23:03:42 GMT
That’s pretty surreal.
My brother bought my childhood home from my parents about 17 years ago. My parents bought it from my grandparents in 1966. My Dad lives there with my brother and brother’s girlfriend. I absolutely hate going there because of what it looks like now. My parents took great pride in their home. It wasn’t anything special but it was clean, neat, and well maintained, as was the yard. Now...it’s just depressing to go there.
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Post by bwife on Dec 15, 2018 1:03:44 GMT
Do you still live in the area? Houses are hot in JOCO right now. its probably worth 475. shoot ours is worth over 125K more than what we paid for it 10 yrs ago!
It is weird when you see your house for sale. It's really weird to meet someone that currently lives in your old house. I didnt grow up in 1 house. My parents moved to JOCO in 88 after my mom remarried. We lived in that house from 88 until they sold it and bought a bigger house in 98, after my sister and I both graduated ( because that makes sense) anyway... they sold it to some couple with a couple of kids. Fast forward to 5 yrs ago. I am working at a school in the same town ( we also live in this town) and I am talking to another school employee, she is asking me how long I have lived here, told her I graduated here, she asked from where, I tell her the school. She says, Oh that is where our kids will go, we live just down the street from there. I said yeah, we lived in __ neighborhood. She said Oh what street, that is where we live. I tell her street, she says, NO WAY, What was your house #. I tell her and they live in our old house. They bought the house 4 or 5 yrs before this ( so around 2008) from the couple my parents sold it to. Then things got weird. She starts asking me what yr my mom put the wallpaper up in the entry way, why the lower level family room is always so cold. That they had to make this repair and that repair.. it was so strange. Then she kept saying " Its so weird that I know someone that lived in my house". Next time someone asks me where I used to live, I am not saying a word. lol
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Post by Really Red on Dec 15, 2018 4:44:35 GMT
My first home just sold for over $500K - a townhome in Alexandria, VA. We sold it for about $175K in 1993 and 25 years later it made a ton of money. My home now will barely sell for $50K over what I bought it for 16 years ago  |
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 15, 2018 4:49:48 GMT
Do you still live in the area? Houses are hot in JOCO right now. its probably worth 475. shoot ours is worth over 125K more than what we paid for it 10 yrs ago! No I don't live in the area anymore.. I loved it there. I actually moved from Gladstone to Leawood. I went to high school in Gladstone, graduated (same year as my mom/dad's divorce) then moved to JOCO. There is always that rivalry between the north side and south side.. LOL.. I was always caught in the middle. HAHA. I worked at Shoney's in Overland Park if you know that area.. of course I don't even think the building is there anymore. Now for the wallpaper.. That was pretty elegant back in the 80s!! LOL... but yes it makes it look pretty dated now. So the owners (who I am pretty sure are the ones that bought it from my parents) never changed it. My stepmom was a very good decorator and with the times (she was a realtor)..so after the fire and every redone it was SO pretty. They still lived there when I got married. So it was fun to do all the prep in that house, because of the big rooms and so much space to spread out. The Master Bedroom has a sitting area and I remember holding my toasting glasses and falling down the stairs two days before the wedding and breaking them. Ended up on crutches. (Except I refused to go down the isle with them.. I had lots of drugs.. haha) |
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Post by M in Carolina on Dec 15, 2018 4:53:17 GMT
It’s a beautiful house. I would definitely look at buying it if I were going buy a house in that area. The paint and wallpaper won’t be a expensive fix. Even the green tile in the bathroom could be replaced without replacing the rest of the tile. I actually like the black and white tile, although I’m not a huge fan of bright yellow brass. workingclassdog I agree that the front door is gorgeous. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I’d contact the realtor and offer to buy the door if the buyers are going to replace it. Not everyone likes glass and wood doors. |
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Post by janeliz on Dec 15, 2018 4:54:37 GMT
My, there’s some fancy schmancy houses for sale there in Leawood!
I drove by my childhood home when I was in NY recently. I was amazed by how much smaller everything seems now.
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Post by ModChick on Dec 15, 2018 5:07:28 GMT
Oh that door!
I had a similar surreal experience with seeing my grandparents house for sale. I cried. It was a shock to the system. My grandma was my idol, and sadly passed when I was 18 (we lived on the acreage right next to theirs) and we moved in with my grandpa when his health took a turn and then after he passed we sold the house and not long after my parents passed away as well. I have so many sweet and sad memories wrapped into that house that it hit me hard to see it online. Surreal is definitely the right word.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jun 28, 2023 11:35:44 GMT
Nice house! With a little facelift on the inside, it would be a great family home.
The childhood home I lived in the longest burned down - long after we were gone. My parents built it when I was a young teenager and allowed me to pick out everything for my room. I made what I now consider hideous choices - lol - but it was killer style for that time (1970s). The lot sits empty. No one ever rebuilt there.
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Post by gillyp on Jun 28, 2023 13:49:07 GMT
How nice to get an apology from the poster directly above spongemomscrappants. I wonder how long it will be before a link is added to the post? In the first 10 posts made by that "person" 8 have links. They must have mistaken the name Peas for Pillocks.  |
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Post by nine on Jun 28, 2023 17:53:50 GMT
I often look on the real estate websites to see if any of my old homes are on the market. I saw one once and it felt really weird to see the insides.
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Post by Zee on Jun 28, 2023 19:49:05 GMT
How nice to get an apology from the poster directly above spongemomscrappants. I wonder how long it will be before a link is added to the post? In the first 10 posts made by that "person" 8 have links. They must have mistaken the name Peas for Pillocks. It's just an AI post by a bot. I wish there were pics of my childhood home but it's gone! |
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