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Our journey toward home ownership continues and we’ve managed to narrowly escape with our lives… this time. During our home inspection, our extremely knowledgeable and detailed inspector, Chuck, noticed there was some signs of settling and quite possibly a lack of proper support in the basement. Of course, we were thrown into a tizzy imagining the house caving in, our precious boys being crushed, and being left with an incredibly expensive crater. We tried to convince the seller to hire a structural engineer to further inspect and evaluate the situation, but that was to no avail. Panicking even further, we spent a sleepless night deciding whether to spend another $400 on inspections that the seller thought unnecessary or hope for the best. But then we were saved by Raul and Junior, the contractor and his helper who previously renovated the house. Armed with a saw, they carved away at the wall and our fear. Behind the drywall where Chuck could not see were good, sturdy beams placed closer together than need be and thus ensuring our Cape Cod would not become a
Cave Cod (too much…?). The next day, we received the results of our radon test and with very low levels, we have no worries of becoming poisoned and dying an agonizing death from lung cancer.
So, with two of our three contingencies removed, we’re another step closer to closing. We received a letter today from our settlement company providing some preliminary details of closing. It seems unreal that everything is falling into place for us so easily this time around, and in about a month, we’ll own our first home. With our list of about 50 projects to tackle, it’s sure to be an exciting experience. Or maybe we’ll wish we could have just been poisoned and crushed early on…
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