After a year of living here, things have progressed a lot from where we began. I know that we both expected to have a lot more done by now. Innocently enough we thought we would be able to tackle 1 room a month. But, as most of you know, Joe was laid off for several months, right after we bought the house. Oh, then there was the failure of the furnace, along with the hot water heater the day we moved in. Between all that, our savings was eaten up. Then the spring time brought the disaster with the septic. I know that I'm looking at this very bleakly. I have to focus on all the good. The guestroom is done, except for the flooring. Our hallway is completed, so is the project of turning the half wall into a full wall. Once I focus on the good, I'm reminded of the roof leak. That dip-shit home inspector told us the roof was 5 years old.... yeah well, he left off the "1". The friggin' thing is 15 years old!
The house is still worth a lot more than we paid for it, so there is some solace in that. We have decided that the next house will be turn-key ready... more or less. The next house is also going to be the one we plan on living in until one of us buys the farm.
My words of wisdom to people buying homes... forget going on the word of the home inspector alone, have a contractor there the same day as the inspection so that you get the truth. While there are probably some good home inspectors out there, I think that the bulk of them are going to tell you what you want to hear to buy the house & give the bank what they want to hear to give you the loan. I know that everyone says when you buy a house "the work will never be done". I have to think that can't be completely accurate. After all the crap that we've gone through with this place after having a moronic home inspector, I have to believe that there will be some sort of light at the end of the tunnel.
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