So, on Wednesday morning, I got an email from the lender letting me know the name and phone number of our appraiser so I could call to find out when he was going to be going to the house for his appraisal/inspection. I didn't hear from him but was expecting it to be next week. Well a few hours later, my real estate agent called me and said that he was on the way over to the house! Sooo...I called Danny and luckily both of us were able to leave work and head right over. And we are so glad we did. It allowed us to see first hand the repairs that will need to be done.
Most are not major, some peeling paint (the house was built in 1930 so it's assumed to be lead based) that will need to be scrapped and repainted. A glass pane or two to be replaced, some caulking, sash cords to be repaired (just learned what those are!), replacement of hot water heater (no biggie-to be expected)...all of this we can do ourselves or within our lovely little network of skilled tradesman :)
However, there is the whole well and septic thing. We were hoping it would slide right through, but alas, the appraiser noted it. The distance between the existing well and suspected area of the septic tank/drain field is too close to meet the lender requirements. So....we have to have a new well dug before closing. We were expecting this might be the case and have gotten an estimate to do it, so that's the next step. We're waiting to hear back on the appraisal value before preceeding, and hopefully that will be in next week.
So, along we plug in this whole home-owning process. Everything still seems on track for Sept. 1st...
And just for good measure, here's a cute pic of Brownie. Side note: he has been suffering from major allegeries and has been scratching so badly, he has a bald spot and is on Benadryl--poor little boy.
