homebuying fun (caution: stupidly wide .jpg)

[ajhostetter]

Oops.

[Kershaw]

Hahaha

[jpod999]

[FireFight]

homebuying fun (caution: stupidly wide .jpg)

I bought my first house 1 year ago

I noticed a bubble under the flooring in the hall, and the floor felt soft. We pulled out the washer and my foot went though the floor





Rot was past the joists

It went all though the main hall and the back bathroom to the kitchen and the inspector missed it all

I was pretty stressed, but luckily my father is a contractor, and I had a decent amount of money stock piled




New flooring though out, replaced walls, new plumbing ect

(Above is finished)Kitchen was new flooring, sink, appliances, back splashing, and this is what every drain pipe looked like


Back bathroom new flooring and floors, and did some wainscoting. As well as new toilets, they all leaked in the house, all three bathrooms.

I dug out this corner of the lawn
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The garage was 2 bedrooms, a bathroom, and a small garage, it's now a big garage.
Next we are replacing all the storm windows for 3 pain ones.
The heating is wires in the ceiling, super sketching and doesn't work well, so we are taking the hot water heater out and putting in a tankless one then putting a furnace in the water heaters place. He housing is getting natural gas, I'm trading engine work on a buddies car who is going to plumb the gas and the new water lines.
There has been more work done, but in spacing it. The previous owners where disgusting humans, they left a ton of stuff and garbage.


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[2mAn]

This is a cool thread. I dont know what we'll end up with in the near future when we finally buy a home. Needless to say, buying in LA is ridiculous. I need to stop looking in other cities because I look and see a 3bd/2ba home that will cost less than my rent... but isnt a few miles from the beach.

[MR E30 325is]

^ Damn excellent work. Sucks the inspector missed all of that. But glad you were able to handle it.

Part of the reason I do my own home inspections, with the aid of my now personal GC. No one cares as much about your things as you do. Some inspectors I have witnessed were incredibly lazy/incompetent. And they wanted 4-500 for 40 minutes of their time. No thanks.

[Stanley Rockafella]

^ Damn excellent work. Sucks the inspector missed all of that. But glad you were able to handle it.

Agreed.

I would have seen that and said "well, I guess it's time to patch up that hole in the floor with a piece of cardboard and GTFO!"

[FireFight]

Thanks guys, looking back it was alot of fun, but at the time i was pretty much mental exhausted. the inspector refunded me my money after I sent him pictures.
Oregon has strange laws for inspectors, they aren't allowed move anything, or "damage" anything, so moving the insulation out of the way was not allowed? and putting a moisture meter in the wall is not allowed. Basically they can just look at the house and say, yep this is a house haha

long story short, next time i will inspect it myself with my father.

[2mAn]

@Firefight. I hate your new sig... what happened to the bewbs?

[FireFight]

Someone flagged it, :(

some people hate bewbs

[MR E30 325is]

Someone flagged it, :(

some people hate bewbs

Some people are friggin losers

[rturbo 930]

^ Damn excellent work. Sucks the inspector missed all of that. But glad you were able to handle it.

Part of the reason I do my own home inspections, with the aid of my now personal GC. No one cares as much about your things as you do. Some inspectors I have witnessed were incredibly lazy/incompetent. And they wanted 4-500 for 40 minutes of their time. No thanks.

My parents sold a ~180 year old building last year. Huge, three stories. I won't go into details, but let's just say there were a few issues we knew of, the sort of thing you'd definitely want to know about and are not exactly easy to miss, that the inspector didn't get. I think I'll be doing my own inspections - or at least in addition to a professional one. It sold though. Thank god. Place was a nightmare.

Thanks guys, looking back it was alot of fun, but at the time i was pretty much mental exhausted. the inspector refunded me my money after I sent him pictures.
Oregon has strange laws for inspectors, they aren't allowed move anything, or "damage" anything, so moving the insulation out of the way was not allowed? and putting a moisture meter in the wall is not allowed. Basically they can just look at the house and say, yep this is a house haha

long story short, next time i will inspect it myself with my father.

Well that's nice that you got your money back... I'm sure that helped a lot compared to what it cost to fix it all.

Sounds like Oregon's inspection laws need major changes. That's a bunch of bullshit.

[Exodus_2pt0]

That's a damn nightmare! Looks like what I expect my boat to be when I pull the floor up.

But a house?!

[FireFight]

That's a damn nightmare! Looks like what I expect my boat to be when I pull the floor up.

But a house?!

Yeah, the old utility sink next to the washer was the problem, it leaked under the sheet flooring and spread like herpes. the market over here is so crazy, i put an offer on the house before seeing it.

[Exodus_2pt0]

That sucks, glad you planned ahead though and had the cash.i have to wonder though, would home owners insurance have covered something like that? I have to wonder since it would be obvious it occurred before you owned the place.

I got lucky with my house, purchased it from a co-worker when he retired and moved back to New York. He ended up getting screwed and had to spend a bit of money to get it to where FHA would finance it. (Things like coating the blocks in the crawl space, removing a very poorly built overhang on the side porch. Things that should have been done but the bank overlooked when he purchased because it was a foreclosure.)

It's interesting, there's a huge stigma against manufactured homes, even my Mom was advising against it. Banks don't want to finance, tons of extra requirements by the FHA. But when I spoke to my Father-in-law who works on homes for a living, he said that the modern ones are usually a very safe bet. OTOH, my brother just purchased a new (pre-owned) home. He looked at a ridiculous number of "stick built" homes before finding one that didn't have some kind of major issue with it.

Fingers crossed, I'd probably cry if I pulled up a floor to find that. After I wiped my tears I'd get my ass to work, but still!