> I cannot tell you how many times I've heard the story: "We found this house > we really liked, but something happened and we didn't get it. Then we found > a house we absolutely adore and it came through without a hitch!"
Matt, add one more time. We fell in love with a house, it had some knob and tube wiring that would have cost $10,000 to replace, but we thought we could handle it. My father finally talked us out of it, saying that something better would come along. I got really mad at him, wanted to know why he wanted to crush my happiness, all that stuff. Two weeks later, we found a better house, no real critical work to be done, etc, for $5000 more than the offering price of the first one. Sometimes it's better to walk away. We're sooo happy I did that, we would have been miserable at the other house, in retrospect. And Jim, I hate to say it, 'cause I'm pretty sure I know how you and your family feel - you've finally found "the" house, now everyone's trying to talk you out of it - but you need to let this one go, or get a comprehensive mold inspection done, and get the price adjusted accordingly. Personally, I wouldn't even move in until you got the work done. Mold is a bad, bad thing, especially with kids around. But, you haven't been looking that long, you have a while to go before you *have* to move, so why not explore the area a little bit more and see if you can't do better? In the end, it is very likely that if you can't find anything, the sellers of that house will still probably be looking for a buyer, as mold is known to scare off just about everyone. If that's the case, make them a lowball offer and deal with it. In my case above, the owners of the first house came back to us twice, once at $10K less than the original offer, the next $20K less. At that point, we had made our minds up to avoid the headaches, however. We still comment every now and again how thankful we were that we walked. Good luck, hope everything works out for you. Ray ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:191330 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
