On Monday, July 8, 2013 5:54:11 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:18:46 -0700 (PDT), "

wrote:



On Sunday, July 7, 2013 4:20:58 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:





She needs a complete home inspection, which should have been done



before purchase. There is no way of knowing what all is wrong and



it could be tens of thousands of dollars of trouble here.







True. It would be a good idea for her to find a decent handyman, make



him a pot roast, maybe.







If the house was a gift / inheritance I would take, fix it and move.







I wish she would follow-up on some threads so we know what was fixed



and what was not - fence , trees out front, etc. ... just sayin'







This reminds me of the movie







"The Money Pit is a 1986 comedy film, directed by Richard Benjamin and



starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to



renovate a recently purchased house."







Some of you guys can be a real downer when she's still in the middle



of fixing things. Are you trying to break her spirit? You don't



know what the rest of the house looks like, what she paid, or how much



money she has.





That's why I suggested getting a competent professional in to

do a complete inspection and find out the real scope of all the

problems. She's already poured some money into

an "improvement" that was work for nothing because instead of

solving a problem, it's making it worse.











I've long noticed in this group and others that some



people write like everything can be fixed with money and everyone has



enough money to do so. It's not true. Many people have to put up



with things far less than perfect because they don't have as much



money as others do.



I think most of the time people here give very practical and good

advice and there are a range of possible options covering various

price points.



I agree.



The overall thing here that stands out is that no

one without experience should ever buy a house without a house

inspection. If you do that, you could be paying $100K for a house

that is worth $20K. That's not to break someone's spirit or be

mean, it's just the truth.



That you think it is the truth, or even that something is the truth,

does not mean that one has chosen the right time to express it.

It is the truth plain and simple. And in my world, it's far better
to tell someone how to avoid a potential disaster, so they learn,
instead of sugar coating the obvious. Do you disagree that it's
a mistake for someone not experienced in checking out a house to
not get an inspection done before buying it?






It's of no value to her to be told she should have hired an inspector

before she bought the house, because she's bought the house already,

and she's in the middle of fixing it up. This can be a joyful

experience, as one by one, the problems get fixed.

Why would you start fixing stuff when you have no idea the
extent of the problems? She already poured a concrete slab
that not only didn't fix anything, but made it worse. She
could do a lot of repairs, pour money into it, only to find
out that to fix other problems that she can't recognize, those repairs she just made need to be torn out.



Instead, such

advice may turn it into months or years of berating oneself while

awake, and inabiltiy to sleep.

If that happens, it's not because of my advice.



If things go badly all-in-all, she

won't need you to convince her to hire an inspector before the next

house. She'll figure it out herself, or she'll hear about it later.

At any rate, a separate thread or inclusion in some other thread will

make the same point to everyone else who might benefit by hearing it.

Leza is the one that needs to get hear what I and others have
said. Good grief.
All I said was that she needs a competent inspection done to find
out what all is wrong with the house. She should have done that
before the purchase. If she chooses to not do it now, it's another mistake. And I'm not buying that some etiquette says that I'm
not supposed to tell her the truth.