Truth Conquers Does The Camera Eye Lie? By Dave Tirsch Jun 4,
2004 - 3:40:00 PM  I was one of the lucky ones.  I was one of
the people looking to purchase a house back in 1998 when house
prices were at a low point.  There were so many sellers and so
few buyers that homeowners were practically begging you to buy
their homes.  House prices ranged from about $150,000 for a
pretty nice fixer upper, to $350,000 for an amazingly huge,
modern house with a pool!  At the time, I could afford the fixer
upper and went around looking at dozens upon dozens of homes in
this category.  Most of these homes had wallpaper straight from
Greg Brady's room, window treatments more colorful than the
curtains hiding prizes in "Let's Make a Deal," bedrooms smaller
than the cone of silence in "Get Smart" and kitchen appliances
straight from the set of "I Love Lucy."    These house traits
were not what I was looking for.  My real estate agent spent
hours trying to explain that I could tear down a wall here, pull
down the wallpaper ther