Not to go into too much detail but my wife and I had planned to be actually living in our house already......
Land bought-Check
House bought-Check
House put in place-Check
Improvements done-Check
Land improvements cost $10,000 more than anticipated- Check... there goes the solar array.
Contractor didn't budget for the carport and now won't do it- Check... there goes the budgeted money for our barn.
Contractor threw in an extra load of topsoil- Check.
Contractor forgot the culvert- Check... most of the topsoil will wash away when it rains.
Final cost of the house is $25,000 more and instead of an itemized list it's coded as "closing costs"- Check... there goes the money we had set aside for the well because lawyer fees are now in the budget.
And now the big one. We went out to the house yesterday (40 mile drive one way) to set up some automatic sprinklers so that the grass that was planted doesn't die while we wait to close. There wasn't enough water pressure to run more than one sprinkler and while trying to find out why I found two things.
1) Something water related in the house got turned on and left on since I can hear water running through the septic line underneath the house.
2) What ever it is that is on has leaked into the sub flooring and there is a very large area of the insulation underneath the home that is "tight as a drum" with water.
I went out to turn the water off at the meter so that the damage would stop and the meter, which read 000000.0 upon install, now reads 001557.4. Yup that's run 1500++ gallons of water since Monday which means my septic is full, the leach fields are full and God knows how many gallons are in/under/soaked into the house. Someone else is paying this months water bill.
I can't believe it's this hard to get a little piece of land and a home for our family.
/rant over.
Land bought-Check
House bought-Check
House put in place-Check
Improvements done-Check
Land improvements cost $10,000 more than anticipated- Check... there goes the solar array.
Contractor didn't budget for the carport and now won't do it- Check... there goes the budgeted money for our barn.
Contractor threw in an extra load of topsoil- Check.
Contractor forgot the culvert- Check... most of the topsoil will wash away when it rains.
Final cost of the house is $25,000 more and instead of an itemized list it's coded as "closing costs"- Check... there goes the money we had set aside for the well because lawyer fees are now in the budget.
And now the big one. We went out to the house yesterday (40 mile drive one way) to set up some automatic sprinklers so that the grass that was planted doesn't die while we wait to close. There wasn't enough water pressure to run more than one sprinkler and while trying to find out why I found two things.
1) Something water related in the house got turned on and left on since I can hear water running through the septic line underneath the house.
2) What ever it is that is on has leaked into the sub flooring and there is a very large area of the insulation underneath the home that is "tight as a drum" with water.
I went out to turn the water off at the meter so that the damage would stop and the meter, which read 000000.0 upon install, now reads 001557.4. Yup that's run 1500++ gallons of water since Monday which means my septic is full, the leach fields are full and God knows how many gallons are in/under/soaked into the house. Someone else is paying this months water bill.
I can't believe it's this hard to get a little piece of land and a home for our family.
/rant over.
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