I like prunes, actually.

Me, too, Jesse.

Hi,all!! This week was our show, so I have not had time for the internets. I hope all are doing well.

Oh, Theo, how awful. You're a very good caretaker; your mom is just resisting all caretaking right now.

This is so true, times a billion.

Laura, your parental units made me smile. So did Allyson's Mona.

Well, I am exhausted. It was as bad, but not worse than, I had anticipated. Just what you'd expect from a three hour litany of everything that you can find wrong with a 78 year old house which hasn't had a live-in owner in 14+ years. Needs a new roof, flashings etc asap. Need to get a plumber in because bathroom sink drains really slow and has a leak in the drain (it would explain water damage on LR ceiling) and the sink is not well anchored to the wall and the draining is worrisome. You know, old pipes .The oven wouldn't light (presumably not hooked up right, since it is new, but who knows.) One funky outlet. Another that needs to be kitchen-code grounded. One set of lights that do not turn off(!) . Pipe to outside faucet needs to be replaced, but it's not in the wall or anything. The deck, of course, the deck. Needs GONE.

Some of the piddly: all the doors need to be planed to shut and latch properly, it became a running joke. All exterior doors probably should be replaced. Porch posts need shimming and some of the base moulding replaced. Ceilings need painting due to water stains from the bad roof . The leaks haven't caused any structural issues (there's attic slither space where he could check.) Venting on the water heater needs adjustment and a service call made on it and the furnace because they haven't seen one in a while.

So....daunting. Very when downloaded in 3 hours. But doable (roofs can run $1.2 K to 5K depending.) The bathroom plumbing is a big concern of mine.

Was able to meet the neighbors F2F. Woman to the right IS SO EXCITED. She's really nice, maybe my age or a little older. She works for a well-known non-profit charity. She told me where to find the neighborhood group online, promised to send me the name of the folks who did her roof (before she bought, but her sellers passed all that info on to her) and deck, told me how much it cost to do her deck and put in central air. Her bath is new, but with the old green tub. She also warned me the western exposure can make the back rooms warm, but she and her dad put in an extendible awning that she loves. Met the guy on the other side and his adorable daughter. He's doing most of the work on his place himself. He has a housemate and they're converting the basement into an apt. The guy seemed really nice too. They also offered to pass along the name of their roofer and told me to look up the neighbor group site.

Both told me there was only one sketch house on the street.

OK, on to pictures and video: [link]

Fall down now.

YAY for doable!

Provided the bathroom can be put into good working order. I don't know. We need a plumber in there.

Oh, I meet tomorrow with my realtor to do the list of what-next.

Very exciting, sarameg! I particularly love the wood floors and stairs since we rarely see those things around here.

Woot, sarameg!!! Very exciting! Can you adjust your price downward for all the problems the inspector found?

Pretty Mona!! I love little doggies.

The ladies at the blood donation place and I have come to an agreement--I'm not going to try to donate platelets anymore. The problem is that I have too many platelets, so that they clog up the needle when it's in the arm too long, like it has to be for platelet donation. So, in two months, I get to go back to whole blood donation. At least this time they were able to get enough plasma and platelets out of me to make the minimum amount for donation, unlike the last two times I tried.

Wonderful picturesl, Sara! And it sounds like it's all fixable stuff. And oh, the inlaid floor is to die for.

Can you adjust your price downward for all the problems the inspector found?

That's the hope. Ask for it either to be repaired, or credit given towards me doing it. But we'll have to run the numbers on that, and so that means getting estimates. Some things, like the stove and replacing an ungrounded outlet with a GFI one, they should be easy to do and have the seller do because they are generic fixes. Things like the roof and bathroom and deck, I think you'd lean more towards credit so you can have it done your way and to your satisfactions.

But we'll see.

roofs can run $1.2 K to 5K depending.

Or more. Something to remember. With the credit crunch, you may not be able to get the cost of renovations added to the loan, the way you could have a few years ago. So if you get a "credit", you may want to work out a closing scheme where you pay your offer, and they give a refund, so at closing you give them a big check, and they give you a small one. Maybe not that exactly, but have your agent work out a way that any lowering of price for repairs is actually available to you to make the repairs.