It sounded awful, but it really wasn't as bad as all that once we sat down and looked at the paperwork after the inspection was finished. There are a few minor electrical problems that we're going to have fixed because we need an electrician to come to the house to put outlets in the garage for the washer and dryer anyway. There is a problem with the seal on a few of the windows that we are going to ask them to fix and there is some safety concerns wrt the garage that we are also going to ask them to fix. I figure we can at least ask and see what they say. There are also a couple minor little suggestions that we'll handle ourselves as we can.
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
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sj - Feb 16, 2012 2:47:38 pm PST #7602 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Topic!Cindy - Feb 16, 2012 2:51:11 pm PST #7603 of 30001
What is even happening?
Both times we bought a house, the sellers refused to bargain over inspection results, but in both cases, we were buying from estates. We ended up letting all the issues go, so as not to lose the house. It's usually not as bad as it sounds, though. I mean, someone has been living there.
hippocampus - Feb 16, 2012 2:57:26 pm PST #7604 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Reminds me that I need to get it together and meet up with my area's pre-stocked peeps.
I was just thinking the same thing.
billytea - Feb 16, 2012 2:58:10 pm PST #7605 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Both times we bought a house, the sellers refused to bargain over inspection results, but in both cases, we were buying from estates. We ended up letting all the issues go, so as not to lose the house. It's usually not as bad as it sounds, though. I mean, someone has been living there.
That sounds comforting until you realise that you were buying from estates.
Volans - Feb 16, 2012 2:59:43 pm PST #7606 of 30001
move out and draw fire
I was just going to point that out, bt.
Ginger - Feb 16, 2012 3:15:35 pm PST #7607 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That sounds comforting until you realise that you were buying from estates.
The house could have killed them.
That's less scary a home-inspector report than usual, sj.
le nubian - Feb 16, 2012 3:30:35 pm PST #7608 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jilli,
I am sure you charmed them into submission.
Congratulations! more in-person interview 'ma!
Atropa - Feb 16, 2012 3:33:21 pm PST #7609 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It helps that the hiring manager knows of me and used to work for Microsoft, so we were able to talk in shorthand terms about content management and the sort of things I'm really good at.
lisah - Feb 16, 2012 3:41:26 pm PST #7610 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Jilli, is it a content strategy job?
Hil R. - Feb 16, 2012 3:44:35 pm PST #7611 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Next time I'm moving to a new house or apartment, remind me to ask whether the neighbors have a band. (I don't know what I can or should do here. It's not absurdly late, but the sound is just really annoying. In an apartment building, I'd feel fine asking them to turn it down, but I don't know what the rules are when the noise is coming from another house.)