Nearly a 2 million dollar beautiful custom home and the owner has literally done NOTHING in 15 years. No gutter cleaning, no roof cleaning, no paint… nothing! Mindboggling that someone can have such a nice house and treat it like crap. Major water penetration past the siding. I can only imagine what’s going in all the other places that I can’t see!
We see a fair number of houses like that in the DC suburbs. Some are older folks who can’t manage the house anymore. Some are absent owners who don’t live there. And some are just people with too much money to waste who don’t care.
Very well understood. Selling my parents second home. Both are in their 90’s and haven’t been able to enjoy for almost 3 years now. Selling and pricing it knowing it needs paint and new decking and railing on the deck. Not a million dollar home, but half of it.