Yes, really! Yesterday we met with the general house inspector at 10 AM. It took him approximately 2 hours to finish the inspection. We had no idea the process would take that long. We’d scheduled the chimney inspector but he had to cancel. So, now he is rescheduled for today with the plumber/sewer inspection. Ugh! Mo money, mo money, mo money! All of these inspections cost. When people say owning a home is expensive, believe it. We haven’t even gotten to the sign the line part, and we keep shelling out money for this house.
For the most part the house is okay. Most of the items the inspector found were due to old age. The house is almost 100 years old. Some stuff should have been done already like electrical updates and putting in a proper venting system for the dryer. And the house isn’t retrofitted for an earthquake which sounds scary to me. I’ve heard all sorts of justifications on why this is okay (coming from people who have their homes retrofitted to boot). The main one is that the house has stood through other earthquakes. Yes, that’s true. I’ll give you that point. However, I don’t want to be in the house when it has decided that it’s stood through enough earthquakes and it’s tired. Plus, we’ve seen how worn the wood house is on the outside and inside due to time, aging and of course seismic activity (read: earthquakes). It’s a wood house not brick. We can’t even get a sprinkler system that gets the wood too wet and people want to tell me not to worry about an earthquake… Hmm. Not!
Anyway, I’m trying to brace myself for round 2 and three of the inspections today. And I am hoping that the house checks out okay (and this is all relative to a house its age). There is so much work to do on the house. It needs restoration and some serious updating.
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