On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:54:11 -0400, 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'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. Instead, such
advice may turn it into months or years of berating oneself while
awake, and inabiltiy to sleep. 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.
She seems to be handling it fairly well - and who knows, she may
have gotten a real bargain on the place, even with the problems.
In the future she will LIKELY investigate a bit more before buying -
but with the home inspectors I've run across she could quite well have
paid the man and still gotten the surprises. A good contractor or
handyman looking it over may have been a better investment - who
knows??