Why oh why did we decide to buy a new house?!
What a process!! We found out today that we need a new survey done...more money! We were hoping to use the existing survey since it is only 6 yrs old. The problem is...the property has 2 street fronts, the property on Jewell street is an empty lot. The house next door to the lot built too far over and their roof sits 2 ft onto our proposed property. The current owners gave them the extra feet but didn't go through any legal channels thus a new survey is required of us! Calixto is going to see if the current owners will pay for this, but I doubt they will. I also have to say what a rip off appraisals are...they "seem" to be a total waste of money...our money at that. The appraisers basically come up or down to the selling price of the house. Now, if that is going to be the case why are we as buyers required to have an appraisal done. It makes no sense to me! So far we have put a lot of money into this house and it isn't even ours yet! I guess there is sense to the phrase "Buyer Beware"
This is interesting...the house we wanted to buy before this one was bought by our neighbors. I ran into one of the guys the other day and he told me the house caught on fire!! Last week a fire started in the kitchen due to the dish washer. There were 2 smoke detectors downstairs and neither went off! Fortunately, they were sleeping downstairs, they awoke to choking smoke...they got out just in time. If they had been sleeping in the room upstairs the house would have been engulfed before they realized there was a fire. Praise God that they survived (they are not believers). They will have to be out of the house for at least 2 months and have the entire kitchen redone. After I spoke with him I realized what if we had bought that house...it is quite possible our kids would have died of smoke inhalation (downstairs) before we could have done anything about it from upstairs! Same for the couple and their kids who lived there before. (We ran into that couple at Chick-fil-A today and they couldn't believe it!) Praise God for the way he works all things out!
We will be showing our house to the couple from LU again this weekend! It is a great location for them as he spends many extra hours at the office. We'll keep praying for the right buyer with the right price!!