| What a fixer-upper might become, pessimistically |
New York Times |
24 Aug 2025 |
| Financial drain |
USA Today |
30 Jan 2024 |
| Home that needs constant costly repairs, e.g. |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Jun 2023 |
| Payment, forward and backward? |
Universal |
02 Dec 2022 |
| Interminably expensive project |
New York Times |
11 Mar 2019 |
| Interminably expensive project |
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| Cash-draining venture |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Jul 2018 |
| Do-it-yourselfer's nightmare |
LA Times Daily |
18 Mar 2015 |
| Do-it-yourselfer's nightmare |
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| Financial drain |
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| Do-it-yourselfer's nightmare |
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| Finance-draining venture |
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| {/House that drains finances, slangily/} |
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| (Martin Amis, 1984) House that needs endless repairs (Stephen King, 1986) |
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| House that sucks you dry, so to speak |
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| House that sucks you dry, so to speak |
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| Fixer-upper that never gets fixed up? |
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| Fixer-upper that never gets fixed up? |
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