May 8, 2006
House Inspection – Check!
Matt just called with a brief update on our house inspection. He went without me because I’m already taking a bunch of time off from work this week and because I just didn’t feel like driving that far and then having to come back tonight.
The home inspector said we’ll need to get some dry wall installed in the garage ceiling and have a railing repaired on the front steps for safety purposes. He said those are things he’d at least try to negotiate with the sellers to get taken care of quickly.
He also had suggestions about the basement stairs. He said the railings stuck out too far and that if we wanted to replace them (which we do – there’s pretty much zero space between the bottom step and the wall) we could make the stairs a little bit steeper & it’d give us the space we want/need at the bottom of the stairs. He also showed Matt a few places where he could improve the already awesome insulation job to make it even better and pointed out a problem with a drain in the basement bathroom (nothing a little drano and/or some sealant won’t fix).
Next step is to talk to our realtor about how we go about negotiating to get those two safety issues resolved. Tomorrow night we meet with the Mortgage Man :)
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