House Hunted

Monday May 1, 2006 at 6:00pm our house Comments (1) »

Well, as of this afternoon, Sheri and I have a contract on the house we'd been wanting to get. It's been somewhat of a saga. First, we saw this house. Liked it. Wanted to go back and look again and probably make an offer, when it was snatched up by someone. We were somewhat disappointed. Well, time passed, and the house came back on the market. Turns out the prospective buyers learned of the house's somewhat high radon reading and backed out. The seller is now installing a radon mitigation system (at his expense) and is selling it to us. So, assuming the home inspector doesn't find anything terribly out of whack, we're gonna have a house soon. Funny how things work out.

I've made a gallery for photos of the house. There are a couple i neglected to take, but maybe i'll get those up sometime as well.

In other news, we will be having a painting party sometime after closing as almost all of the rooms need painted. Those interested will be fed pizza and soda.

~PS

Penguinsushi says...

Well, today the home inspector came and we went through the house. Basically, everything he had to report was pretty minor. Some cracked basement windows (which are older than dirt and need to be replaced anyway), a couple of issues like the lack of a pipe of sufficient length on the pressure release on the water heater, etc. The worst thing i saw was that one of the panes of one of the windows in the third bedroom was cracked. Hopefully we can get the seller to fix or at least pay for that (since we had $1000 in our contract for such things). All in all though, the house seems to be in quite good shape. I have posted some more pictures in the 'House Hunted' gallery - some that i forgot to take last time. Alas that the weather was not as nice today. ~PS

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