hilary1617
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Congratulations on the counteroffer acceptance. Now off to great places to do more great things!!!
House update
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Whit
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I'm envious. Congratulations and cheers to your next adventure. I'd love to do this but can not store a motor home where I live. HOA regulations. It would also be cost prohibitive to pay to store off site as it would need to be climate controlled and that adds up.
Whit, the only thing you need are tire covers and an overhead cover. No need for climate controlled.
Have had two moving companies in so far to give us an estimate for moving and storing our major furniture. Third one is tomorrow.
We also found out today that the home inspection is tomorrow. Since we took ours and did a punch list of fixing issues over the last three years, not sure what they will find so we are leaving a few things for him. Like an outlet in the basement has detached from the brick wall it was attached to (an easy fix even for us but may ask our electrician to come in and fix it). We also have new smoke alarms but not installing them til after the inspection...Figure we need to get dinged for that.
One thing about home inspections is they will find SOMETHING to ding you for so we may as well leave a few items.
We also found out today that the home inspection is tomorrow. Since we took ours and did a punch list of fixing issues over the last three years, not sure what they will find so we are leaving a few things for him. Like an outlet in the basement has detached from the brick wall it was attached to (an easy fix even for us but may ask our electrician to come in and fix it). We also have new smoke alarms but not installing them til after the inspection...Figure we need to get dinged for that.
One thing about home inspections is they will find SOMETHING to ding you for so we may as well leave a few items.
So far we've passed the home inspection. The appraisal is this coming Wed.
Things are moving right along. Of the three moving/storage estimates, the second one is the best.
Things are moving right along. Of the three moving/storage estimates, the second one is the best.
Whit
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Hi Guys, Motorhome storage here ranges from 100 to 400 a month. I guess I will look into it further....
High price here is $100. We pay $35 a month
Been a tense few days. They came back with a list of stuff from the inspection report they wanted fixed. Mostly they wanted money off the accepted counteroffer. Total of repairs was only 3150. BUT since our counteroffer was only 3000 higher than their initial offer, we would have been another 150.00 below. So we went thru the list with a comb....Did allow 500 for one item. Several, we had OUR electrician come in and address cause one DID concern us enough to have him come in. One was an under warranty fix on my gas stove. And the best ones were dh's response to the GFCI issue and the smoke detectors.
GFCI is ONLY required to be updated in a house this age IF the room was renovated. We renovated the upstairs bath and had the electrical brought up to current code. BUT the kitchen was never touched. We did NOT have an obligation to upgrade there. Inspector IMPLIED it was code violation. It is NOT as our house is up to the code current at last renovation (back in the 50's/60's for many rooms). And CFGI's were NOT required at that time.
Smoke detectors have a life span of 10 years. When we bought the house, they were BARELY valid but they were valid. Okay, 3 1/2 years later, they are outdated. When the inspector came back to pick up his radon testing equipment, we showed him the brand new ones we purchased and planned on letting the new homeowners place them where THEY wanted them. All the inspector said was that the batteries needed replacing since not having batteries installed would give the new owners a "false sense of security". Dh turned that around on them and stated that we knew the smoke detectors needed replacing, we had the news ones in house, and that simply replacing the batteries in the OLD ones (which was what the inspector suggested) would give the home owners a false sense of security.
Never argue with a man with two mechanical engineering degrees AND time on his hands, LOL. We were angry at first but drafting a response and going thru several drafts tend to help get the angry out of the response, LOL. Oh and a weekend in between. We decided they were simply trying to get back down to their original offer.
Got word today, they accepted our response. The ONE item we did allow was the deck posts that are not pressure treated and as a result are showing signs of dry rot.
So yeah, they won ONE item, 5 others were fixed (3 at no cost but a few mins of time or under warranty) and a LITTLE ($60 for the electrician) out of pocket for the other two. And our contractor says it's gonna cost more than 500 for the deck post repair. And he's very reasonably priced.
Unfortunately we can't be sure until we get the check at the end of closing if it's a done deal. Here in NC, a buyer can back out at any point for NO reason all the way up to the end of closing. But they have money to lose now if they do...money spent on inspections, money put in escrow, money they gave us (thru our realtor) to pull the listing OFF the active market once the Due Diligence is done. Dh and I are cautiously optimistic.
GFCI is ONLY required to be updated in a house this age IF the room was renovated. We renovated the upstairs bath and had the electrical brought up to current code. BUT the kitchen was never touched. We did NOT have an obligation to upgrade there. Inspector IMPLIED it was code violation. It is NOT as our house is up to the code current at last renovation (back in the 50's/60's for many rooms). And CFGI's were NOT required at that time.
Smoke detectors have a life span of 10 years. When we bought the house, they were BARELY valid but they were valid. Okay, 3 1/2 years later, they are outdated. When the inspector came back to pick up his radon testing equipment, we showed him the brand new ones we purchased and planned on letting the new homeowners place them where THEY wanted them. All the inspector said was that the batteries needed replacing since not having batteries installed would give the new owners a "false sense of security". Dh turned that around on them and stated that we knew the smoke detectors needed replacing, we had the news ones in house, and that simply replacing the batteries in the OLD ones (which was what the inspector suggested) would give the home owners a false sense of security.
Never argue with a man with two mechanical engineering degrees AND time on his hands, LOL. We were angry at first but drafting a response and going thru several drafts tend to help get the angry out of the response, LOL. Oh and a weekend in between. We decided they were simply trying to get back down to their original offer.
Got word today, they accepted our response. The ONE item we did allow was the deck posts that are not pressure treated and as a result are showing signs of dry rot.
So yeah, they won ONE item, 5 others were fixed (3 at no cost but a few mins of time or under warranty) and a LITTLE ($60 for the electrician) out of pocket for the other two. And our contractor says it's gonna cost more than 500 for the deck post repair. And he's very reasonably priced.
Unfortunately we can't be sure until we get the check at the end of closing if it's a done deal. Here in NC, a buyer can back out at any point for NO reason all the way up to the end of closing. But they have money to lose now if they do...money spent on inspections, money put in escrow, money they gave us (thru our realtor) to pull the listing OFF the active market once the Due Diligence is done. Dh and I are cautiously optimistic.
hilary1617
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I'm cautiously optimistic for you! Well done!
Susan in Tennessee
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It's quite a dance isn't it? Sounds like you have a strong chance of closing successfully!
I HATE this dance....but I know it's necessary.
Their realtor contacted ours this morning wanting to know if we could close sooner. Dh's response, "is the Pope Catholic?".
Came back with the 23rd of March instead of 30 March. I called the movers to find out if we could get them here between the 20th and 22nd. Waiting on a call back, yeah or nay.
Came back with the 23rd of March instead of 30 March. I called the movers to find out if we could get them here between the 20th and 22nd. Waiting on a call back, yeah or nay.
