By Living Room Realty, October 14, 2019
When I first met with Nicole in the early part of 2019, we had a pretty loose plan: touch base in May or June and see how she was feeling about buying a home. Early-summer came and she wasn’t feeling it. We resolved to keep in touch and see how 2020 shapes up.
Then in September (2019) I get word that she is done with apartment living and is ready to get rolling! We toured a bunch of homes and there were a few contenders in the bunch. There was one that we wrote a half-hearted offer on that didn’t quite come together (which was good in my opinion). It was ‘quick-flip’ and I just knew that the fresh white paint would fade quickly to reveal a hack-renovation.
Then the perfect house came on: cute 20’s one level with a new-ish ADU in the back. It got a few offers, but my client prevailed. The house seemed to be in good condition and in my mind…the inspection will just be a formality. I was correct until the inspector came out of the crawl space. He was down there so long that I had to call for him to make sure he was okay. He was fine, but the crawl was a bit of a mess: thrashed insulation, damaged joists/beams and areas of settled foundation. Yikes! The sellers were committed to making it right. Between repair negotiations, the actual work and re-inspection there were dozens for folks down in that crawl to do the work and then make sure it was done right.
When it was all said and done, the structure was made sound and so was the peace of mind for the buyer to close the sale. Following through paid off in the end!!
