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Old 11-26-2013, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Due North of Potemkin City Limits
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You see this time and time again around the Pittsburgh area. Check out this listing. The inside of the place has been renovated and is absolutely stunning, however from the outside it looks like a crack house. Soooo many beautiful, historic properties in this area are still wrapped in ugly 70's facades:
Totally renovated house on wide street in Lawrenceville
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Old 11-26-2013, 04:07 PM
 
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You see this time and time again around the Pittsburgh area. Check out this listing. The inside of the place has been renovated and is absolutely stunning, however from the outside it looks like a crack house. Soooo many beautiful, historic properties in this area are still wrapped in ugly 70's facades:
Totally renovated house on wide street in Lawrenceville

Because it's a rental property. Renters don't care about the outside.
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Old 11-26-2013, 04:23 PM
 
Location: North Oakland
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You see this time and time again around the Pittsburgh area. Check out this listing. The inside of the place has been renovated and is absolutely stunning, however from the outside it looks like a crack house. Soooo many beautiful, historic properties in this area are still wrapped in ugly 70's facades:
Totally renovated house on wide street in Lawrenceville
I love how it says in the first sentence "re-done house w/parking right in front." Is the realtor going to throw in a free parking chair?

Very nice interior. How would you improve the exterior, Sealtite? Would it be possible to put in normal-sized windows on the second floor? All in all, it doesn't look that bad, esp. for L'ville.

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Because it's a rental property. Renters don't care about the outside.
That's just silly. Or maybe you're joking.

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Old 11-26-2013, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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The outside looks pretty good to me, my guess is the original was worse. Insulbrick, maybe.
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Old 11-26-2013, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Currently living in Reddit
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Stunning? Looks like a couple of cheap Lowe's vanities, a cheap toilet, Pergo (or cheaper alternative) for flooring, discount carpet. It's liveable, certainly. Hardly stunning though. And maybe the outside is as is not to attract attention in a changing neighborhood.

Just my opinion.
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Old 11-26-2013, 06:14 PM
 
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Why put a bunch of money into the outside when you can't control how the neighboring units look
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Old 11-26-2013, 06:37 PM
 
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I love how it says in the first sentence "re-done house w/parking right in front." Is the realtor going to throw in a free parking chair?

Very nice interior. How would you improve the exterior, Sealtite? Would it be possible to put in normal-sized windows on the second floor? All in all, it doesn't look that bad, esp. for L'ville.

That's just silly. Or maybe you're joking.
Not kidding at all. If I'm renting a place, the inside, and the location are going to be far more important than the facade. That house looks like it's neighbors. Yeah, it's ugly, but that's what you get with frame houses here. In Pittsburgh, the good looking houses are usually masonry. The majority of frame houses were cheap working man's dwellings. The owners in the 50's and 60's didn't see any problem with altering what they felt was an ugly house to begin with.
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Old 11-26-2013, 06:39 PM
 
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The inside is not to my taste at all (looks kinda chintzy, but I'm weird); and to me it matches the outside perfectly and blends in with the adjacent homes.
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Old 11-26-2013, 06:43 PM
 
Location: Kittanning
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It's most likely a late 19th century house, and the facade was altered to suit mid century modern tastes. The interior was gutted of all original character, and so was the exterior. It was remodeled with the cheapest modern finishes. It might as well be a trailer.

Originally, it would have had a modest Victorian flair, and would have been an attractive home. You could spend a fortune restoring the facade to the Victorian era, but in the end it's still a fabrication and not authentic or distinguished, and the interior will always be straight out of Ikea.

There are so many houses like this in Pittsburgh. They are okay as a place to live, but I wouldn't pay much money to live in something so in conflict with itself.
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Old 11-26-2013, 06:52 PM
 
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You see this time and time again around the Pittsburgh area. Check out this listing. The inside of the place has been renovated and is absolutely stunning, however from the outside it looks like a crack house. Soooo many beautiful, historic properties in this area are still wrapped in ugly 70's facades:
Our property tax system highly encourages an owner to keep the outside looking poor regardless of how much money is spent to update the inside.
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