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[kittydesade]

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Well, that went better than expected. I told the boy what the plumber told me when he woke up, and what I'd found out. He then said "Dammit! I hate working on incomplete data" and I womanfully refrained from throwing something at his head because that's what I've been saying this whole time. And the only deadline was losing our earnest money deposit, which wouldn't matter if we found out that we did want the house anyway and if we found out that we didn't, I at least would consider it money well spent.

But, anyway, he is now on board for what we are currently paying or less, if the bank blinks first. Which means that if this does pan out I need to wrangle yet more logistics, oh fun. But at least I get to take my box of paperwork out of my bag! YAY.

BOO. Chrome, stop crashing, I know I need to reboot the damn thing.

There. I've emailed the Realty Lady and asked what the worst case scenario is, and had my little gigglefit over the front door of Old Hotness. Basically it's kind of scratched up and sad looking, though still solid. So maybe we'd sand it a bit and repaint it. Now, this door is currently red. But all the shutters on the outside are black. So, being a classic rock fan, you see where I'm going with this? Cue the Rolling Stones. I swear, if this works out I will do some kind of time lapse video of painting the damn door and set it to that song. It will be hilarious.

... No, I'm an idiot. I'm probably not going to hear back from Realty Lady today, she's got a Thing of Thingness that takes precedence. All right then, focusing more on getting back into routines and not thinking about Old Hotness for a little while. Apart from knitting on the hope chest, which is less about Old Hotness and more about yay home ownership.

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[kikibug13]

*giggles* Now just think of this dude with gold chain around his neck and Chinese-made Adidas sweatpants and raspberry-colored jacket.

... I mean. If you needed a distracting mental image.

[kittydesade]

There are WORDS for people who wear things like that. Some of them not very nice words. But WORDS.

[kikibug13]

And here we have an academic case of 'show, don't tell' ...

*runs, ducks, and hides*

[kittydesade]

*flings raspberries at you*

[kikibug13]

:PPPP

[synecdochic]

What'd the plumber say?

And yes, that door thing is a gigglefit.

[kittydesade]

The plumber said it'd be a matter of replacing a section of pipe, 250-500$. (Presumably plus more of that to replace the flooring where they pull it up.) He doesn't think it's anything worse than that, and all the rest of the piping looks good.

MM, and I did ask him to give me a worst case, whole floor needs to be re-piped estimate, and that was still within our budget, albeit stretching it and then we wouldn't be able to do all the small repairs we want to within the first six months. But he doesn't think it'll come to that.

[synecdochic]

Oh, that's good news! now just to find out about the heat?

(I would still want to get them to make the fix before signing the final contract, just to be sure, but still.)

[kittydesade]

We tried getting them to fix it already. Twice. :/ I'm not sure if the selling bank overall is being a mulish sack of crap or if it's just the one rep, but they are refusing to do anything and they keep trying to demand immediate responses unless we yell at them, basically.

The heating system as it currently stands is fucked. But yeah, I need to price out forced air systems and possibly ask about split level systems, that's on my to-do list for this week. Still, with just the one major problem that is, thankfully, within our budget. A new boiler would, according to the estimates we've gotten so far, be about 2k-2500, but that doesn't include replacing all the radiators and making sure none of the pipes leading to it are cracked, etc etc. So, um. Forced air. Thankfully the architecture is very open and the ductwork doesn't need to be complicated at all.

Um. *thinks* And I have a list of small fixes that are getting marked either "hire someone in" (like the brickwork in the front, unless one of my uncles actually knows about masonry too) and "find a willing uncle to show me how." And, of course, the "honey-do" list, as I believe it's called.

[synecdochic]

*nod* Yeah, that's always the problem with a bank-owned house. It's a very frustrating process. You'd think they'd be looking to get it off their hands, but no!

I will keep my fingers crossed.

[kittydesade]

:D

If I've got the current state of everything correctly, it should go fairly quickly now. Or at least, quickly up to the point where I'm standing around a bunch of empty rooms waiting for contractors to get there to do work.