I have a couple of friends looking now, but when we bought our last house the kitchen was a big deal every time. A lot of the new houses in our area had galley style kitchens - no good for people who like to cook. A couple had beautiful gourmet kitchens with a couple odd things - like a giant beautiful six burner gas range in the corner with no adjacent counterspace behind where the traffic pattern from the door outside? It looked nice, but it wasn't very practical, and would have cost big bucks to change it.
Bad wallpaper or repainting on the other had is a relatively easy fix.
The deal breaker for us was traffic patterns. Be sure you check out the area and zoning nearby. We looked at one house that was nice, but backed onto the state highway, which was not a big deal just 4 years ago, but is now.
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