I have been immersed in the haze of searching for a new abode. Gary and I have been renting for three years now, and with prices and interest rates so low, we are entertaining a new home, but boy not without trials and tribs. We went through a house inspection yesterday only to discover that the house we placed an offer upon, needs some major plumbing work, a new pool pump among various other costly fixes. Man, and I thought motorcycles were a hole to throw money into! Today we are asking that the big ticket items be fixed or we bail and it’s back to square one. I wonder if our house inspector gives bulk discounts?? HA!
Here’s the “almost” abode…
Looks good with that motorcycle, eh?
Complete with old skool pool/spa
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Is that the house next door to the one you’re in now?
Also, if the sellers are willing to reduce the price to allow for repairs, it might not be a deal breaker.
Best of luck whatever you decide to do,
oxoxoxox
Can’t wait to hang out at your new place
Nope Dave, it’s about 6 miles from here. We did approach them this afternoon with a counter offer to either fix the catastrophic items or reduce the price. We’ll see!!
Hope it comes through, Max. The future holds our and your fate.
Cute new abode D!! Love the POOL!!! I hope it’ll work out for you two! We are in the same boat….renting this place but planning to finally purchase a home within the next year or two. NOT in Utah tho!! Good luck on the counter offer!!
I see your situation on those house hunter shows on HGTV often and it usually works out with the seller fixing the items or giving a credit back to the buyer for repairs!
Get some money knocked off, then do the fixes yourself; labour is always the highest cost part of that kind of work.
(BTW, I just did a job sealing some major leaks at a public pool…)
So???
Looks like there needs to be a pool party….