So, inspections are done, and turned up nothing that would give me cause to “run, don’t walk” away.\u00a0 It’s a 25 year old home, and as such has things that need doing.\u00a0 I made a list, checked it twice, and submitted an amended contract to the seller.<\/p>\n
And waited nervously.<\/p>\n
One of the things I did want taken care of was the roof, which had about a year-and-a-half of viable life left to it, and showed damage from hail and trees.\u00a0 This was a point of contention with my insurance company, and as such an important issue with me… an expensive<\/em> issue.\u00a0 The seller has to be well aware of the condition of the roof (as it was quite obvious), and the property was a rental, and I’m sure he was reluctant to put any more into it than was strictly necessary.\u00a0 So, my request for funds for a new roof were likely not to be a surprise.<\/p>\n So, along with the amended contract I submitted a letter from my insurance company basically stating that any policy they issued me would indeed be very temporary, and replacing the roof was a condition of a long and healthy relationship with them.\u00a0 I also got quotes to have the roof redone and submitted those as well.\u00a0 I asked for the sum of cheapest of the two quotes to be paid into escrow, to be paid directly to the roofer upon closing.\u00a0 I also asked for a number of other necessary repairs.<\/p>\n They agreed to pay in full for the roof repair, and offers a sum of cash to cover the cost of the other repairs, and I could do them myself.\u00a0 Deal!<\/p>\n I’ve signed off on the above amendments to the contract, and sometime tomorrow it should be filed with the title company.\u00a0 Once that happens, I am on the fast track to actually buying this house.\u00a0 Now I need to lock in my interest rate and finish the mortgage process (which I was pre-approved for).<\/p>\n Should all go well, I close on April 30th.\u00a0 I’m more than a little excited.\u00a0 Nervous too.\u00a0 But hell, I’m one door-slam away from going homicidal on my downstairs neighbors, so this is for the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, inspections are done, and turned up nothing that would give me cause to “run, don’t walk” away.\u00a0 It’s a 25 year old home, and as such has things that need doing.\u00a0 I made a list, checked it twice, and submitted an amended contract to the seller. And waited nervously. One of the things I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","category-stress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}