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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 8:58 pm
by skullman80
Wow. Bold strategy.
Yep. It's pretty much redone from top to bottom though. We still have a home inspection obviously and I'm hoping by that time we can actually go in. We did drive by the location.

It's still a big leap of faith though no doubt.

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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 9:16 pm
by dodint
I do it with cars all the time. You do you.

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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 10:01 pm
by count2infinity
Congrats.

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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 10:12 pm
by mac5155
Why couldn't you get inside of it? Seems a bit silly.

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Posted: Sat May 02, 2020 10:41 pm
by skullman80
Why couldn't you get inside of it? Seems a bit silly.
Covid shut down.

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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 3:58 am
by NTP66
skull going the Flip or Flop route. Good luck, and congrats!

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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 6:46 am
by skullman80
45 days until I'm out of my in laws basement lol. The zoom meeting actually wasn't bad. Early birthday present since my birthday is tomorrow.

The seller walked us through the property. Our agent and her agent were in the meeting along with my wife and I. Both my agent and we got to ask any questions we wanted at the end. They seemed like good people. I think they answered honestly.

All the major components (roof, windows, furnace, ac etc) are less than 10 years old. New electrical box. The cosmetic stuff was all just updated. It's turnkey. I have to do zero work. The only box it didn't check was the yard isn't fenced. With all the other stuff being done we can have that done.

It's still a big chance but we are confident. Home inspection will be key obviously.

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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 12:07 pm
by mac5155
Why couldn't you get inside of it? Seems a bit silly.
Covid shut down.
Duh.
I mean, like, were there people in there or what? How is 1 person with a video camera any more or less safe than one person standing outside and you and your SO going through it?

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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 12:11 pm
by mac5155
Oh, OK there are still occupants in the house. I guess that makes slightly more sense.

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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 3:15 pm
by skullman80
Oh, OK there are still occupants in the house. I guess that makes slightly more sense.
Yeah people still living there. They are in the process of moving. June 18th closing as of now.

Tomorrow starts submitting all of the paperwork and scheduling inspection etc.

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Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 10:34 pm
by mac5155
Nice. Best of luck. I would schedule the inspection when you're allowed to go thru with the inspector.

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Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 1:37 pm
by skullman80
Submitted the official loan application today after spending yesterday gathering all the financial documents. Locked in our rate at 3.25%.

Scheduled the home inspection for next monday afternoon. The inspector is letting us walk through with him as long as we stay socially distant and wear a mask. He was like technically I'm not even supposed to be in the house, so if I'm there and you want to be there... it's fine by me.

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Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 10:33 am
by skullman80
The hardest thing about this now is waiting. We have the home inspection today and that is going to be our actual first time in the house. Besides that though it's just waiting for the loan underwriting.

The finance guy at our real estate place said this is the "down" time and it could be a couple weeks before we hear anything. I know our credit is fine (we are both just a point or two below 800 when they pulled our credit for the interest rate to lock it in). I know our finances are in order, but it sucks to just wait. He said if he needed any other info he would let us know, and we got an automated email on Friday that the appraisal had been ordered. I know that isn't actually done though until after the inspection is complete to see if there is any other negotiations that need down for the price of the house for repairs etc.

Either way I'm impatient and I want it all to be done and be able to move right now. I think both my wife and I will feel better after the inspection today and we know nothing major is wrong with the house.

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Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 10:41 am
by dodint
Not exactly the same but we applied for a HELOC in February from a local bank. They went all the way through underwriting before denying it on a technicality. So now I'm doing another round of waiting as I've applied for a HELOC through two different institutions as a back-up. The only thing that really is keeping us from listing now are some small things that need to be fixed in the old house; and the handful of projects we want to complete in the house we're moving to.

I don't want to start living at the other house full time and then pave the driveway. It would be so much easier to just do it when we're not living there. Stuff like that.

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Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 1:26 pm
by NTP66
Source of the post I don't want to start living at the other house full time and then pave the driveway. It would be so much easier to just do it when we're not living there. Stuff like that.
Don't do the driveway until after your work is finished if you'll have work trucks, etc. driving on it.

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Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 1:29 pm
by dodint
We're doing this in phases. We're going to live there about two years and then do the big expansion. I'm not holding off on the driveway for two years. I'd rather just bring the contractor back to repair any concerns and reseal it. In part because we're not just converting the existing dirt/gravel/grass driveway to blacktop, but also widening it and adding a parking pad in place of one of the side yards.

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Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 3:03 pm
by NTP66
The only reason I say that is because the entire reason I had to repave my driveway is because the construction company continued to drive/park heavy trucks on it after pouring, and it wound up being wavy. That's much more of a pain in the ass than simply resealing.

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Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 3:10 pm
by mac5155
As someone who has used the driveway @dodint is talking about, he should definitely pave it now :lol: :pop:

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Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 3:24 pm
by dodint
Yeah. My MIL passed away in February 2018 and the grass grew up around the gravel by like March 15th. Now it's basically glorified yard.

NTP66, I appreciate the concern. I've thought about it myself because the only access to the back yard is going to be through the new parking pad. We'll see what happens. If you're right I'll let you know. ;)

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Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 3:45 pm
by NTP66
Just lookin out for you man. I wasn't a fan of laying down $2600 or whatever I paid to redo everything. It was still functional, but those waves drove me crazy, and shoveling/snowblowing was a dodint.

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Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 8:55 am
by skullman80
The home inspection went well. We were there for almost 3 hours. No huge red flags. One bathroom exhaust fan not working, and he recommended a chimney hat/cap thing, and to recaulk around two of the front facing lower level windows since the caulking was dried out, but otherwise in good shape.

Radon was right at 4 which is the "safe" limit, so don't think we are going to push to have any radon mitigation installed. It did fluctuate a good bit and was below 4 over the 3 days he had it there.

Overall feel better after actually walking through and knowing nothing is going to fall apart etc. The upgrades they did all seemed to be done right and not half assed according to the inspector.

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Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:01 am
by NTP66
Source of the post One bathroom exhaust fan not working
I highly, highly recommend going with a Panasonic fan.

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Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:08 am
by mac5155
We have a (Homewerks?) Bluetooth Speaker fan and it's the cats ass

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Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:15 am
by dodint
If you want one with a heater I recommend this one: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Utilitech-Heat ... n/50056913

It's so quiet I thought it was broke at first.

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Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:39 am
by skullman80
The one that isn't working is in the half bath in the finished lower level so don't know if we need a bluetooth speaker haha.

They will probably have to fix it for the occupancy inspection to pass so not sure if we will get to pick what kind or not.