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We were totally willing to get a "fixer-up-er" and actually thought it would be fun to buy one needing work. Ended up getting one that was perfect and move in ready.

Our home was turn-key. Neither of us have any interest in spending our weekends fixing up stuff around the house!

Yup, I bought a brand new townhouse. I bought by myself before DH and I were together, so it was really important to me that everything be maintenance free.

Our house needed (and needs!) work. But I don't mind. I'd be so bored with a house that was already perfect!

We bought a fixer upper realizing we'd be doing a lot of it ourselves. However, that's prior to us buying and running our own business so now we have zero free time to do any of the renovations. =(

Nope, it was partially updated, but has a lot of work to do. A brand new or totally renovated home was way out of budget (about 150-200k more) for the towns we wanted to be in.

OMG noooo. I wish! We bought a fixer-upper, and three years later we still aren't done. We have some major projects done but still a lot more to go!

We close next week and for the most part the current owners have updated everything. We want to replace the kitchen countertops but that it just cause we like granite, the ones they have are new.

We will have to finish the basement in a couple years once we save up the money for that project.

Nope! There was a ton of wallpaper.

Meh, sorta. Yes because it was flipped and they gutted pretty much everything and updated the kitchen and bathrooms, put a family room addition on the house, and put in new floors and added new paint/molding. No because they kind of did a shitty job on little things. Like, instead of using real baseboard molding, they just pieced together door molding for the baseboards, so there are visible joints where the pieces weren't long enough to cover a whole wall. WTF? A piece of transition strip (also laid in three separate pieces) wasn't cut properly to fit the wall so juts out, and just came recently came loose because they didn't nail it down properly. There are visible nails where they nailed window trim on crooked. Door stops are popping out of the walls.

Then there are personal preferences, like, the beige contractor-grade paint they used throughout was innocuous enough, but I like more color so we had all the rooms repainted to suit us. While I'm grateful they repainted the pink exterior, they painted it peach, so that's on our to-do list. The floors are so beautiful, but are also not the most durable laminate, so they're already completely scratched up from the cat and dog and will probably need to be replaced. The grout in the kitchen wasn't sealed so the brand-new tile floor already looks disgusting.

Etc. Nothing is ever perfect, though, and I'd much rather have these issues than having to gut and completely renovate from scratch! The bathrooms and kitchen are totally a great style for us, so we don't have to worry about saving up and doing any of that. Our biggest, most costly project when we get around to it will be landscaping -- there is zero.

We are in the market for a new home right now. We either want a turn-key home (at the top of our budget), or a fixer-upper towards the bottom. We live in Portland, Oregon where homes are insane ... the market is fast & quite pricey, so honestly, we'll just be happy with what we can get!!