As mentioned you should have a professional home inspector check
things out. Cost should be the same as having your friendly benz dealer
do a pre-buy car inspection for you.
Beside the last house we bought, armed with a long list of issues
from the inspector, we managed to talked the seller into shaving an
additional $10,000 off the price, which of course was better in my
pocket (soon to be spent) than his.
On 14-May-06, at 6:57 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
Considering the other topics we hit on here....
My wife and I are looking at a house, MBZ content: its got a 3
car garage, no more paying for repairs I can do myself!
Anyway theres this one house we really like, its in our price
range and I think the seller will move on price to make it very
affordable. Yesterday we really went through with a fine toothed
comb. Its an old house so of course there are problems but theres
one that sort of scares me.
At the front of the house theres one sill beam thats rotted
pretty bad. The owners have allowed dirt to get pushed up against
the house so water has gotten against that beam. Its not broken yet
but it would definately want to be replaced. I don't *think* it
would be a big deal, its accessable from the bottom and the top,
I'd figured to clean the dirt away, jack the house just a bit to
take pressure off the sill, pull the bad and put in new but....
I've never actually done this sort of thing on a house, all my
experience is with camps.
Anyway anybody ever replaced rotted sills?
-Curt
soon to be first time homebuyer
John
1983 300TDt 364k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac)
1990's 300TDt 166k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac)
1993 500SEL 174k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac)
