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The Ugliest House in America

October 20th, 2008 Categories: Tips & Tools

Think your house needs remodeling? Vote for the “Ugliest House in America”

We all have improvements we’d like to make to our homes — replace the countertops, refinish the floors, put in new landscaping — but few of our lists include “remove twenty-years’ worth of piled-up junk” or “repair the roof so that it actually covers the entire building.” HomeVestors, a company that specializes in buying and selling “problem homes” and properties with serious structural issues, is currently running its second annual “Ugliest Home in America” contest.

The finalists are eight homes from around the country that go far beyond just “ugly” — these properties are in need of a little more than cosmetic improvements. They boast such delightful features as collapsing floors, gaping holes, and decades of detritus. The property located in Atlanta, Georgia, for example, displays the following notable features:

Though not on the county’s register of Historic Places or listed as a local Natural Wonder, this house boasts two incredible features: The first is the MASSIVE sinkhole (5-6 feet in depth) right in the living room where the floor joists collapsed. We called it “A Natu ral Sunken Living Room” and thought it brought a lot of charm and depth to the living space. The second feature was the “Natural Skylight” in Bedroom #2 where the roof rotted away, thus enabling the room to bask in natural sunlight and accumulate dead leaves on the floor. It really brings the “outside into the house.”

Go to http://www.homevestors.com/ugliest_house/ to pick your…uhh…favorite. Afterwards, you can even enter a sweepstakes to win $10,000 — perhaps you could use your winnings to spiff up your own home! We just hope that doesn’t involve pulling a tree down through the living room wall and boarding up the windows…

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