It's more the scary crumpled ceiling that gets me.
One of my thing is I want central air...or a price that I can put it in soon after. I am not equipped to cope without air in this climate.
I also don't want too much of a fixer upper. I know my limits. I can deal with an old ugly kitchen for a period of time...I guess that's key: I want functional over pretty, but that doesn't need to be brand spanking new. And I kinda hate some of the new kitchens they put in. I'd rather have old cabinets I hate than new ones I hate (given I have the world's ugliest crap cabinets now, shouldn't be a surprise.)
(this is msbelle's doing. I have to give blamecredit where it is due.)
Ooh, one of the houses I looked at had the ugly cabinets, but they had custom-made organizing...contraptions inside. Pull outs and swivels and drawers-in-cabinets and it was amazing. Had I been able to afford that place, I just would have replaced the fronts eventually. The use of space was amazing.