A New Jersey couple bought a 116-year-old house for $435,000. They spent 5 years renovating it, finding new parts of its history as they ripped up carpet and restored floors. Now, they're listing the home for $649,000 — check it out.
A New Jersey couple traded their rental apartment for a 1907 Dutch Colonial house that they bought for $435,000.Now, they're planning to relocate to a different state and sell the 116-year-old residence for $649,000.
Both of them were working in Manhattan back then and their priority was to have an easy commute to their offices that took less than 40 minutes, Rogers said. Her husband is a software engineer and she works in healthcare. "It was such an easy commute. I get off the train, I walk two blocks down the street and I see the house. We both instantly decided that this was it," she added.
This style of house has a very distinct gambrel roof that resembles that of a barn, with interiors set like an American Foursquare, she said. "We hired people to refinish the treads on the stairs as well as the wood floors on the second-floor hallway," Rogers said."And it was bad — I had to have the owner of the company come back to fix it."
"We had the floor finishers take a look at that as well, but they declined to do it because they said the floorboards were too thin," she said. "We've completed all of the major projects that we wanted to do but there's an endless list that could probably last us the next 20 years if we wanted to do it," Rogers said.The only real constraints of a home renovation were time and money, Rogers said.
"I started becoming friends with some of those people online and the account just kept growing," she added."It's definitely shocking when I realize how many people follow us and our house because we're not influencers. We have full-time jobs completely unrelated to home and DIY." However, more than a year after they moved in, the couple received an anonymous package in the mail containing old photos and real estate listings of their house dating back to as early as the 1930s, Rogers said.
While the couple was initially skeptical, they soon warmed up to the stranger when he was able to describe the interiors of their home and all the renovations that his father had done. The couple believes that Stull was the one who took the photos, thanks to some old Kodak boxes and chemical bottles that they found underneath the floorboards in one of the rooms.
The area that the couple lives in also has a practice known as"freecycling," where people put usable things that they no longer want out on their curb for others to take, she said. Even though they live in an area with lots of conveniences nearby, including the grocery store, coffee shops, and even bars, it wasn't the same as being in the city, she said.
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