And it was not a little shifting, a tree root ball was pushing the whole corner of the foundation inward.

Remove bushes and couple trees around d the exterior of the house. 19.

But, odds are you are barking up the wrong tree. 

Big trees super nice.

It needs central heat and air added, a few trees removed that are encroaching,  some brick work and there is a double car outbuilding that is in disrepair.  

You could say that Real Estate is in both my husband and my DNA yet in two different ways;Growing up my parents not only built their own home (including falling the trees and milling the lumber themselves) but also flipped a single family home and remodeled a ski resort condo turning it into a vacation rental.

Is there any privacy screening of bushes/trees or is the view in the back literally freeway?

Find tree that grows money, free lunch, golden goose, unicorn, etc.Terry

If there are buyers on the other end the market will be fine.very true in the mid 80s the pac nor west including seattle was in the Toilet and Bay Area was gaining steam.then when Bay area and much of CA went in the toilet in 89 to 92 ish.. at least the Portland market was really taking off that's when I went to Portland in search of Evergreen trees  LOL and we found them  :) 

There is nothing fun to do at our place, except that it is a Christmas tree farm, so people might like going for walks in the tree field.