Buying A House: C or D?

That sounds pretty thorough. Australian build inspections are a joke. On one place the guy missed a massive gaping crack on the wall of one place. I noticed it on the day before the auction, going back for a final look through.

Yeah, he also gave us all kinds of tips on what we should do at regular intervals, and he explained a lot of stuff to me like polarity of outlets and how the gas hvac system works (on the most basic level). I'm honestly psyched to re-read my home inspection report more thoroughly.

Haven't signed the contract yet though, waiting on final changes, so I prob shouldn't speak too soon.

Our home inspector wrote a book. We still refer to it!

Though to be honest, I kind of agree with PBKR that hiring a contractor might also be worth it, but I say that only as someone whose reno'ed house had tons of weird, easily fixable plumbing issues.

I did that with another house before making an offer because I had more concerns about it. I'm kind of past that point on this one, but I may do it if/after we close.

why did he want you to get rid of gutter screens?

He says they just get clogged and cause the problem they're supposed to solve. Better to just be mindful about cleaning the gutters.

Gutters screens never work ime

I have an oak sapling growing through one of mine right now

Ah

Gutter screens move the problem approximate 4 cm above the gutter.

lol

a friend had an offer in on a house, had the inspection include scoping the sewer line to ensure it was in good shape, and the line collapsed while they were scoping it

she felt bad, but they rescinded the offer because it was too much to deal with

> Gutter screens move the problem approximate 4 cm above the gutter.

this. the one above me was chicken wire and got clogged with moss - gutter filled with water, came in and down through the ceiling roses and into the lights...

Our home inspector missed that when someone added the upstairs bathroom to our house (probably in the 1930s), they cut through about 10 floor joists in order to put the waste line in. When we went to renovate our kitchen below that area, our contractor figured this out in about five minutes just by looking at the layout and lifting a drop ceiling tile in the kitchen.

You need a gutter liner that you can flip up to remove all debris at once. Surely there were infomercials for these.

our inspector covered himself when halfway through he took me aside and was like "this is a very old house in poor shape, are you sure?"

well, were you?

yeah, it was the house that I had posted (expired) pics about above, however many years ago. It was pretty much the best we were going to be able to get for our money without it being a tiny 5th floor walk up or on Avenue D. And it more than doubled in price when we sold it so it ended up being fine.

Closing tomorrow ooooo OOOOOOOOO!

nice!!

I feel mentally and emotionally ready to make the house a very long-term, constant project.

Have a drink.

get yourself a copy of this bad boy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13593897-insulate-weatherize

well, don't if you're on the tenth floor of a co-op, but if you bought a house then it's good

anyone ever get a mortgage to buy a house with a demo'd kitchen?

So far:
- I've learned that the concrete patio pitches toward the house (planning to replace anyway, but probably need to do it sooner now)
- Fridge isn't working properly
- Dryer sounds like a jackhammer with tuberculosis
- may have an underground yellowjacket nest
- have been unable to get internet service for a week already (three botched appointments)

In spite of all this, I love the house and I love being in the house. Also, one piece of good news is that I haven't had to run the central A/C once in spite of mid to high 80-degree temps, good shade and passive cooling.

that's huge.

Oh, C's dryer sounded like that but he pulled the inside out and fixed it with some parts he ordered on the internet. I think it needed new rubber bushings or something.

Congrats!

Oh nice, will look into that.

look up the problem in youtube and you will find 100 professional dryer repair guys telling you how to fix it

part ordered ;)

doesn't look like a very challenging repair

narrator: it was an extremely challenging repair

planning to surprise H with either a quiet dryer or a new clothes rack

i am guessing she would vote for the dryer

It’s seems rude for us to vote for the clothes rack

tbh i envy the clothes line my mennonite neighbors have. great way to dry those long dresses.

tbh i envy my pirate neighbor's wooden leg

what suburb are you in man alive? we're rethinking CA for obvious reasons (it on fire).

Can this thread also cover Selling A House: C or D?

Sign goes up tomorrow.

Kind of stunning how much $$$ we are spending on a house we are leaving.

Thank god we are just dealing with renting on the other end. God help those who have various selling/buying contingencies happening.

Also lol that caek is fleeing where I am moving.

ILX house swap?

q, our apt is up for sale as of a week now.

we are moving 1 mile away to a house and putting our condo up for sale shortly.

the house has a demo'd kitchen. we need to put a cheap oven in to make it count as 'functionally a kitchen'.

before we sold our old house we put in a new range and range hood, removed carpet and installed new flooring throughout, and had the exterior and interior repainted ... we more than recovered those costs on the sale, but at the time our reaction was, "Why didn't we do all this when we could have enjoyed it ourselves?"

we just painted it all and cleaned. our first house we sold we asked the realtor about making some bigger changes for sale but he was like don't bother because people here reno so much it would likely be thrown out anyway. which i get too because i am super particular about stuff like counters and tiles.

Did you empty it out for showing or sell with your stuff still inside?

our first house we kept stuff inside but just made it more "staged." Which is annoying to constantly needing to hide toiletries and stuff like bathmats. My apartment right now, friends were renting from me and so it's completely empty now which is not ideal for selling but whate'er.

is it generally wise to have things staged for walk through? even for a place with small rooms?