It's not usually good news when a house has boarding up outside it, hiding potential horrors behind it but thankfully blocking the unsightly view of a rundown empty home for the neighbours.
When Homes Under The Hammer presenter Dion Dublin first visited this two-bed semi his heart sank when he was greeted by boarding and his worries were confirmed when he found his way in.
The house had smashed windows, an original door that had potential but was currently not the most secure entrance, and inside a myriad of cobwebs strewn across the ceilings and windows of this dirty and dingy period property.
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The central hall offered a reception room either side as well as more broken windows, holes in the ceilings and a grubby sofa and old sink unit.
The view inside was not too impressive, but Dion was loving the view outside.
The garden wrapped around the house and here the wonderful P word was brought to the table - potential.
Extend to the rear, extend to the side, extend up - or do all of it if planning and the budget allowed.
Dion rather dramatically even suggests a new buyer could squash the house completely to maximise the plot size potential to make optimum profit, but as this was a semi-detached house the adjoining neighbours might not have been so keen on that.
Dion decides that maybe this is not the best option for neighbour relations, but what about flats?
Upstairs the dirt and the dingy interiors continue into the two bedrooms and a rather strange avocado bathroom suite shoe-horned into a space between the bedrooms.
Dion investigates and surmises that the house only had an outside toilet so the bathroom was brought upstairs.
However, in doing so and stealing some of the spaced from the bedrooms, one of them has been left with the oddest of tiny spaces so the window is not blocked that is totally unusable, apart from the perfect place for a game of hide and seek.
The house in Penge, south east London, had a guide price of £250,000 and for that the new owner would get bags of potential but bags of problems too; it was definitely a 'back to bricks' project.
The hammer eventually fell at £333,000 and the house full of horrors was bought by builder Afrin and his business partner Alex, the first time that they were going to work on a project together.
After doing lots of renovation properties for other people they decided it was time to do one for themselves.
Dion is shocked to hear that the duo are planning to turn this one property into two by extending to the side to create two, three-bed houses.
That was plan A if they got permission but the back-up plan B could be three flats and then there is a plan C too, which was a single house with an extension at the back to create a four bedroom house.
So many choices, it was now all in the hands of the planners.
With a budget of £80,000 and doing all the work themselves, The A-team of Afrin and Alex thought plan A would take about six to seven months.
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The programme returned after 18 months but which plan is proceeding for this property with potential? Even after all this time, the building is still in its final phase of transformation, but as what?
The loft is being converted but this duo of builders have built a two-storey wrap around extension to create two houses - plan A wins.
The planning process took longer due to the loft and the windows and as this creation of an extra house was going to blow the £80,000 budget this dynamic developing duo had to work on other external projects to fund the extra work.
Both houses will have an open-plan kitchen and living room and a ground floor bathroom, upstairs there will be two bedrooms and a family bathroom and a master suite in the loft.
Afrin thinks to get to the houses to the finishing line will take about another four to five months and probably another £50,000 on top of their £80k to complete and make sure the finished homes are of luxury standard.
The estimate total spend on the purchase and the project is likely to be £463,000.
Was it all worth it, even though it's not finished? Oh yes.
The top end value of both three-bed houses from the estate agent, if done to the high-end specification that the location demands and taking into account the market at the time, was going to make them a pre-tax profit of £937,000. Yes, knocking on the door of a cool £1m.
Two happy guys and two happy houses.
This story is in series 23, episode 59, currently available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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