House Moving Forward: Creep and Crawl
Buying a house sure seems to take a while. Dealing with an estate takes even longer. Throw in the fact that the place is really old and more creeping, crawling pace ensues. We’re finally at the moving forward post home inspection and termite inspection. Good news is that there are no live termites and the sellers will pay for treatment. However, there is some evidence of some previous damage and the purchase price will drop $4,000 to cover the repairs that may be needed at some point (ha! $4,000 feels like nothing).
However, my concerns on the structural stuff haven’t been met and I guess it’s time to get over it. I’ve fussed a great deal and it seems to have gotten no where, but I’m not at the point of fussing that I’ll say that we need to walk. There are two more inspections, water and septic, and I’m hoping they go much faster. However, I’m not too happy about the $1K we’ll be spending on them, sheesh!
So, I’m somewhat disappointed in the house, but only because I really wanted to press the structural issues some more. But, the house is priced as such that it has problems, so I guess that I should just be content with that. I’ve done lots and lots of research on fixing the problem (as I estimate it to be) seems much easier than I originally thought. Yeah, structural work is a major project, but amazingly it can be a do-it-yourself project if you actually know what you’re doing. So, we can take our get-to-it motivation with a little support from our wealth of personal relationship resources, and take care of it. In the meantime, it ain’t going anywhere.
So now, I’m working to move past the disappointment in not getting the repairs (aka price reduction) I wanted and on to getting re-excited about the house. And, suddenly more financial issues crop up — like what are we going to do with the partner’s stuff.
This property doesn’t have a garage, a major negative point, and we have to get all those heavy machines out of their current location (they’ve seriously over-stayed their welcome at this point). I want to just find out how much it’ll be and work out a way to come up with some more cash (maybe 5K is enough) and get it built. The partner admires his buddy’s method of piecing together a shop by finding all the elements and putting together bit by bit — we ain’t go time for bit by bit, get it built, get it done!