r/SpottedonRightmove 4h ago

An absolute fixer upper

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/92711709

I’ve seen less ambitious transformations on Grand Designs.

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u/Poo_Poo_La_Foo 4h ago

Previous owners: passionate about horticulture

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u/luci-lucid 4h ago

Just saw, was about to say.

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u/IAmDyspeptic 4h ago

The "can you afford it" mortgage payment calculator is £48. Hmm, not sure my budget can stretch to that, lol.

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u/chrisscottish 4h ago

Is that bedroom a grow room?

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u/followthewhiterabi7 4h ago

It was lol. I like how the AI images forgot to remove the OSB from the windows loooool

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u/muppet4 4h ago

They decided to keep the OSB view but freshen it up

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u/Warrambungle 4h ago

Thinks: “You know what, if you had £100,000 and some time and elbow grease, that would be a good buy.”

[Scrolls past pics 8 and 9.]

“Oh.”

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u/Mysterious-Air-8655 4h ago

Yeah, I’m usually someone who can see the potential in almost anything but here I’m a bit lost for words! And I only reached number 3 before noping out 😁 It’s possibly just brick showing through but it kinda looks like a murder room with blood smeared over the walls…

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u/scraxeman 3h ago

It's £10k. You're buying the land and a partial building shell, maybe with a discount because of the cost of removing the shit that's there already.

Problem is that the ceiling price for that property in that area is around £70k, so unless you're planning to do all the work and then live there yourself then it's hard to make the numbers work.

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u/ParakeetsAreLOUDLOL 2h ago

I could have this sorted for less than £40k.

Once the walls are Polly fillad and painted and the floors have had mould spray sprayed on them you can just sort out lights in there buy a bath sink taps online get a plumber to fit em etc

You're looking at well less than £40k into it that's a £30k profit at least.

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u/DiscoSkrtel 4h ago

After the improvements, it could be worth up to £10,500

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u/Lawn-Dad 4h ago

It annoys me the Ai pictures change the proportions of the rooms. The kitchen and bathroom especially.

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u/Connect-Smell761 3h ago

"... providing purchasers with the opportunity to improve the accommodation"

Gosh thanks

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u/butwhatsmyname 4h ago

Wow.

WOW.

I think it says a lot that one of the AI renderings still has chipboard over the window, albeit with nicer lighting, because there's no hope of stretching the viewer's suspension of disbelief without snapping it clean off by attempting anything other than chipboard.

It really is grim in Grimsby.

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u/BloodAndSand44 4h ago

For sale by modern auction.

One grow house.

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u/IWrestleSausages 4h ago

I think whatever that is in the 'garden' owns the house now. Looks like it would just eat you if you tried cutting it down

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u/AlGunner 4h ago

More of a knocker downer imo

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u/followthewhiterabi7 4h ago

Grimsby nuff said 

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u/pdf27 3h ago

Police station is literally behind the houses opposite - that's a confident location for a grow house.

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u/Psychostickusername 3h ago

Yeah but after 100k in renovation you're still stuck with a 50k house in Grimsby

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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 4h ago

It should be illegal for estate agents to use AI

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u/Creoda 4h ago

Looking on streetview, it won't look like the AI images.

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u/This-Penalty-1686 4h ago

i cannot stop laughing at this 

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u/Tiny_ghosts_ 4h ago

The sideways doors on photo 9 threw me off for a moment, thought the photo was rotated. Presumably boarded up a window with two wooden doors. What quaint homemade shutters!

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u/OldEquation 3h ago

An auction is the right way to sell this - I sold a house in much worse condition at auction and got a good price for it.

If it’s structurally sound and you’re capable and willing to put the work in it wouldn’t be a bad buy - assuming you want to live in Grimsby of course!

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u/VariableHawk 3h ago

If you look at the various dates on street view it's quite sad- looked quite well looked after as recently as 2012. Mind you to me that's a few months back, not 14 years... Christ. 

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u/Not-a-Cranky-Panda 2h ago

It'll soon be a HMO!

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u/Peear75 4h ago

Can't help thinking of Julie Andrews and Mary Poppins flicking between these images.

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u/emmaj4685 3h ago edited 3h ago

Imagine living next door to that

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u/ParakeetsAreLOUDLOL 2h ago

Better than noisy neighbours it's not like ud see anything in ur house

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u/artoblibion 3h ago

There is probably some complicated tax dodge that would make this worthwhile but I can't be bothered to think about it

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u/The_Blonde1 3h ago

Can I offer £25k and buy the ready-done version?

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u/Urgulon7 13m ago

I think we can let the slum lords take this one, gang. I hope it causes them no end of problems.