Their dream homes turned out to be renovation nightmares.
In 2022, Sean Patrick Gallagher, 36, and his husband, Alp Cilingir, 41, bought an abandoned house from the 1900s in foreclosure in Germantown, New York — a bucolic Hudson Valley town with views of the Catskill Mountains, a population just under 2,000 and part-time celeb residents such as Daniel Day-Lewis.
They paid $150,000 for the three bedroom-two bathroom home, which was once owned by the Rockefeller family, and budgeted another $250,000 for renovations — some of which they planned to do themselves. They thought they’d get a chic upstate retreat for cheap; houses down the street are now selling for over $1 million.
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