this woman’s work

I looked one in the mouth the other day. I was clearing out my inbox and lo and behold I found an acceptance to a pitch that I somehow missed. It was marked read but trust me, I hadn’t read it. My first thought was not “Hooray!” or even “Thank goodness I found it!” it was, in fact, “Damnit! Another assignment!” Then I said thank goodness and then reluctantly I said hooray.

We had our home inspection yesterday and there were no surprises exept that there weren’t any surprises. The detached garage roof is caving in but we knew that although it’s a bit more obvious than we thought (we’re going FHA and we were hoping they wouldn’t notice).

We had our second inspection on this house this morning. The first inspector noticed bowing in our basement walls and — much to our realtor’s frustration — instead of signing off said that we needed to bring in a structural specialist. See, the bowing is minor so most inspectors would have just made a note to keep a watch on it but this guy went a step further, which put everyone into a tizzy. The buyers are these nice young kids and one of them has a father who clearly is concerned with his daughter’s welfare. How he shared this concern was by calling our realtor and ripping his face off and accusing us of trying to cover up major structural flaws.

Anyway, the second inspector came by and said that really it’s no big deal but that he had to recommend ibeams (four — and they’re pricey) although off-the-record, if we weren’t trying to sell he would just tell us to keep a watch on the walls. So basically the whole deal is now on shaky ground because the first inspector over-reacted. And the second inspector also said that obviously we weren’t trying to hide anything since the bow is there in plain sight and that Brett should stop feeling guilty (last night Brett was feeling like an immoral seller because we pointed the bowing out to the realtor but didn’t have it looked at ourselves) and that the bowing isn’t even that severe.

Bother.

I’m trying to not freak out about it. The things that upset me about all of this is 1) the cost of everything; 2) the ill-will of one of the buyer’s father. Also, the seller of the house we want is the cheapskate, right? So here we are trying really hard to accomodate our buyers and that guy is probably not going to accomodate us and I’m afraid that both the ibeams and the garage roof will need to come out of our shallow pockets.

Other than the aforementioned guilt, Brett is not worried. He thinks it’s all going to be fine. I’m leaning on that.

The happiest news is that we like the new house even better now that we spent three hours poking around in corners. I am very anxious to get in there and start making it our own.

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