More on the new house
Apr. 28th, 2013 03:17 pmI just realized I've neglected posting over here about the house (and have instead been posting tidbits and links over on FB). So, we made the offer, they accepted the offer, we had the inspection and found several issues... but really only three that we thought were important enough to ask them to fix: Some drainage issues on the roof, what appeared to be an extension cord powering the septic system, and the septic alarm didn't work when we tried testing it (all of which were issues that were really needed to bring the house up to code).
The scuppers on the roof should have had some sort of mesh on them to keep out debris and instead had a colander. You know, like from the kitchen. o_O Not entirely sure what to make of that. The extension cord thing is kind of strange, because we couldn't quite believe that they'd been powering the septic system that way since 1996... but there was an extension cord that ran next to the second carport and was plugged into a cord that just came out of the ground (pointing in the general direction of the septic). The inspector couldn't figure it out and came to the conclusion that it was powering the septic. The current owners are reasonably certain that's not the case and think it may be left over from when they used to have a water feature on that side of the yard. They're checking into it and will fix it if it really is an issue.
But that's it. We've bought a house and will close on June 19th (which happens to be my birthday). At that point, we're probably going to have the ducts and carpets cleaned... because there have been dogs living in the house and![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rackham is allergic. But after that, we can start moving in! I'm so excited!!
Now for the fun part... scrambling to get this house ready to sell on a bit of an accelerated timeline. It would be great if we could get someone to close on this house before we close on our new one, just from a financial standpoint... but we're a bit torn, because it would also be MUCH easier to close over there first and then just move straight from here to there. We'll have to see how it goes.
And now... the photos I took of the new house when we were there for the inspection!
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
The scuppers on the roof should have had some sort of mesh on them to keep out debris and instead had a colander. You know, like from the kitchen. o_O Not entirely sure what to make of that. The extension cord thing is kind of strange, because we couldn't quite believe that they'd been powering the septic system that way since 1996... but there was an extension cord that ran next to the second carport and was plugged into a cord that just came out of the ground (pointing in the general direction of the septic). The inspector couldn't figure it out and came to the conclusion that it was powering the septic. The current owners are reasonably certain that's not the case and think it may be left over from when they used to have a water feature on that side of the yard. They're checking into it and will fix it if it really is an issue.
But that's it. We've bought a house and will close on June 19th (which happens to be my birthday). At that point, we're probably going to have the ducts and carpets cleaned... because there have been dogs living in the house and
rackham is allergic. But after that, we can start moving in! I'm so excited!!Now for the fun part... scrambling to get this house ready to sell on a bit of an accelerated timeline. It would be great if we could get someone to close on this house before we close on our new one, just from a financial standpoint... but we're a bit torn, because it would also be MUCH easier to close over there first and then just move straight from here to there. We'll have to see how it goes.
And now... the photos I took of the new house when we were there for the inspection!
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
