Wow, that’s steep. My new house is getting inspected by the same guys that inspected my current home for me on Tuesday. $475. And that includes a wind mitigation survey, which is critical here as it guarantees to your insurer that your roof is up to code. My insurance last year with a 20 year old roof was around $1700. When I got my roof replaced and had a wind mitigation study done, my new insurance dropped to $1200.
-D > On Oct 20, 2019, at 9:15 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > You should get licensed as a home inspector. They charge $750 per house > around here. > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 8:35 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Great story! >> >> --FT >> Sent from iPhone >> >>> On Oct 20, 2019, at 8:01 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Not the house I built in Florida with a spec home builder. We were their >> worst nightmare as we’ve built several houses, some ourselves, some using a >> general contractor who subbed much of it out to us. >>> >>> Read some of the anecdotes. You’ll understand why I said what I did: >>> >>> We red-lined medicine cabinets in all the bathrooms. Interior framers >> went ahead and framed in for them anyway. Not a big deal as long as the >> finish carpenters don’t cut them out. Again, we went around and marked the >> drywall so the finish carpenters knew not to cut out the openings for >> medicine cabinets. They cut one out before we could stop them. Builder said >> they would have the hole patched. No you won’t, we told them. It’s MR >> (moisture resistant or “greenboard”) board and there can’t be any holes in >> it. Fast forward several days and nothing is done with it. One morning I >> get a call from the job super in a huge panic. "Someone is vandalizing your >> home!!!" I pause and give it some thought. “I doubt it. I suspect that’s >> the wife providing some nonverbal feedback.” Yup, they had patched the >> hole. She saw it on her daily morning walk through, went out to her car, >> got a hammer and punched holes in the rest of the drywall sheet so it had >> to be replaced as we specified. >>> >>> I was looking at the interior framing one evening when we were doing our >> twice daily inspections. I noticed that the wall between out dining room >> and laundry room, which had the dryer vent going up to the roof through it, >> was a standard 2x4 wall. So there’s a 4” metal vent pipe in a wall that’s >> 3-1/2” thick. Yeah, I don’t think so. Job super says “Yeah, we do them all >> that way. It’s not a problem, the vent pipe just flattens out a little. >> Nope. Better comply with code, guys, and put in a 2x6 wall to accommodate >> the 4” pipe. They did. >>> >>> Same wall was curved. I mean curved. I don’t recall what spec was, >> something like no more than 3/8” deviation in a 6 foot run, something like >> that. I took my 8’ carpenter’s level and struck a line to show the wall was >> well outside the spec. They tore it out and did it again, and the new wall >> was square/plumb. Amazing! >>> >>> Doing the final punch list we pointed out that there were no switches >> for the spa pump and heater on the wall of the lanai like there was in the >> model. “Oh, we don’t do those, they’re only in the model.” Pull out copy of >> the construction contract. “Spa pump and heater with all wiring and >> installation, as shown in model.” Yeah, sorry, but you’re doing them in >> this house. Two days later an electrician came out and wired the switches >> for our spa pump and heater on the wall of the lanai. The punctuation on >> this - when we did the final-final punch list, the job super gave us the >> switch box from the model labeled “spa pump/heater”. It was empty. It was a >> dummy and had never been connected to anything. >>> >>> Lastly, not long after we moved in, we received a bill from the local >> propane supplier. It was for the initial fill and also had a line for the >> tank lease on it. We never signed a lease for a propane tank. We had a 100 >> gallon propane tank buried in the front yard to feed our gas appliances, >> fireplace and spa heater. It was an addendum to the construction contract >> done at the time of purchase. Contract stated, “Builder shall provide 100 >> gallon propane tank and all related piping, valves and hardware for spa >> heater, fireplace, etc., etc.” We called the builder and asked them what >> was up. “Oh, all the tanks are leased.” Yeah, I’m afraid not, as we paid >> for this tank as a part of the contract." They had to buy out the lease >> from the propane supplier. >>> >>> These are just a small sample of the crazy sh*t that took place the one >> time we used a spec home builder. They handed out these little carbonless >> forms that you could fill out and turn in to the office if you found >> something wrong. They ended up giving us a whole box of the forms. >>> >>> And the really sad part is that we didn’t do anything but hold them to >> the terms of their contract. We asked for nothing that wasn’t stated or >> defined in the contract. What’s worse is the thought about how bad they >> hosed other people’s homes up who either weren't involved in the >> construction or didn’t know any better. G-d forbid if you bought an >> inventory home from them! >>> >>> This is typical spec home builder behavior, I might add. They were so >> upset with us that when the house was almost finished out they banned us >> from the property and hired a security guard to sit in front of the place >> after hours. Dipsh*t never got out of his car, so it made it easy for us to >> go through the place from the back... >>> >>> -D who could write a book about building houses…. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 20, 2019, at 5:48 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On October 20, 2019 at 5:01 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Then don’t come to Florida, as the majority of newer communities are >> “deed restricted”, as in having an HOA. >>>> >>>> I can't imagine wanting to live in a "community". Did that from >> 1970-1975, that was enough for me (and my parents). >>>> >>>> for one thing, you get houses built by developers, who build houses >> like this (see attached pics).<i joist.JPG><I joist2.JPG><I >> joist3.JPG>_______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
