SUMMARY: Howzit look, professionally?
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| Mr. Inspector Man descending into the crawl space. Which he said looked really good, no issues. Lots of spiderwebs. |
My realtor AH and I met a house inspector this morning at "my new" house, crossing our fingers that he would not find rotting floors, shattering foundations, leaking walls, corpses in the crawl space, or anything else that could kill the deal. I have until Friday to make my final agreement to buy, but everything looked as good as I had expected (and hoped).
Previous owner took great care of this house. Also helped that it's only 14 years old.
The house, not the previous owner.
The main disappointment was that, for a house this age, the inspector thinks that the roof should probably have another 5 usable years left...I had hoped for maybe 10. Soooo... from proceeds from selling my previous house, I need to set aside at least $10,000 for that eventuality not too far down the proverbial highway of life.
But.
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| Poor lilac; its base is mere inches from the house wall. Who does that? Seriously! |
Otherwise, just a lot of small things to be aware of or that I or a handyman could probably handily handle, such as these examples:
- Hall bathroom grout along bathtub needs to be dug out and replaced with caulk (for Official Reasons)
- One ceiling light didn't light--am asking the seller to replace the bulb to confirm it's just a bulb issue and not Aliens.
- One door whose hang needs adjusting [um, that's my phrasing, and now it sounds kinky]
- Couple of nails to be replaced and recovered. Assuming those aren't THE TWO KEY NAILS HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER.
- Trim the huge lilac shrub at the corner of the house so it's not touching the house. That'll be a machete hacking cut, it just shouldn't have been planted that close to the house.
(Lilac photo is from the house's listing online.)
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