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This afternoon I looked at a little farmhouse, built in the 30s, that new development forgot to tear down and replace.
It sits on a hill with a partly-paved driveway you have to back down. The exterior is a ridiculous combination of filthy stucco, fake brick face, about ten feet of modern siding, and unfinished concrete.
Because it's a farmhouse, the interior layout is just ridiculous. Most floors are painted wood. Most floors are uneven. All rooms are tiny. Every replacement window is a different make. The roof is not shingled, it has some other type of covering that I don't know about.
It has a large back yard, and beautiful woods, including a secret path down to the nearby Perkiomen Trail. So it's awesome for walking exercise, and for the dog.
The damp unfinished basement is not good for anything but laundry and storage. It doesn't look like it takes on water, it was raining while I looked at it. There were no signs of flooding, but it is "farmhouse damp". A good-sized dehumidifier could change things, probably improve living conditions as well.
An alarm system is installed, so it would only be a call to the alarm company to set up security. It's not like I have anything worth stealing, but maybe the nearby college student housing is a problem. There were two recent Natural Light empties out front, and a bunch of glass shit some student threw down the hill instead of discarding in a proper bin. It would be a pain in the ass to have Natty Light-drinking students walking around my domicile, but at least nobody is going to be drunk on that shit.
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