Sun Bay - The "Ugly" House

In investor terms I suppose you would describe Sun Bay as an "ugly" house, ie., it's going to take a lot of work to make it market ready for the average consumer. But it just seems so mean to call it names. Just because each bedroom is a different color (lime green, electric ocean blue, and a nice neutral tan in one) with "matching" bathrooms (in that they're each a different color too... lemon yellow, bright/baby pink... with stickers all over the walls) doesn't necessarily mean it's "ugly". The kitchen kind of matches one of the bathrooms :)

I can remember a day when I was very into "country" decorating and, oh this is gonna hurt to admit, we painted the house a beautiful shade of... gulp... peach. And the carpeting was blue. We had a wonderful overstuffed couch and loveseat in a nice blue and white stripe pattern. I loved it! (Much to my poor family's dismay). But I'm not letting the kids off that easily. There was the violet purple bedroom, the dark grey bedroom, the - yes - electric ocean blue bathroom. Ahhhhh - the good ole days. We didn't have an "ugly" house at all. We had a precious home that was just the way we most desired.

Boy did that place take a lot of work when we decided to turn it into a rental 'cause, for some reason, no one would rent it with peach walls and blue carpeting! So, although Sun Bay has a definite character of it's own (and a few things a little scarier than just colorful rooms) - we will call it a lived in and loved home that needs a few changes to make it more appealing to the masses. Unfortunately, those few changes are gonna run about $25,000 :(

So please, check out the very thorough set of pictures we got of the "before" on Sun Bay (perhaps you should sit down first - and maybe you'll even want to make sure you're not alone if you get scared easily) and WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE AFTER!! You're gonna want this house for yourself! (Ok, maybe that was a stretch)

P.S. - you can get a fullscreen view of the Sun Bay slideshow by clicking on the title of this post... then just hit your browser's "Back" button to return to this blog :)