Update on Inspection and Objections

 First as per usual, the update on the house!

It's snowing again.  

We kind of dodged a bullet with the inspection.  The buyer came back and asked for a $10K allowance.  He wants the house, and knew he could ask for that, and he knew, that because we want to get the house sold in a timely manner, that we would likely go for it.  

If it was a matter of getting the loan paid off, we would have had to fight it, but we are well over what we owe.  When the offer came in, Bryan said, "This is a gift from God!".  And I agree that if there is a God, it was!  In the mean time, I will chalk it up to extremely good luck.  In fact, we wanted to refinance a couple years ago, before the real estate pricing got way out of outrageousness, and we would not have been able to get any money out of the re-fi.  We could not find a bank that would do it.  So, if we had tried to do this a couple years ago, we would not have been able to afford it.       

So we decided that for ease of getting the contract through, we won't begrudge the guy the ten grand.  He seems like a super nice, why shouldn't he get a little win out of this situation?  So we agreed and signed the objection.  

He (his name is Hugh) is a young guy, and I'm not sure he's married or engaged to the young lady or not.  She's not on any of the paperwork.  But he was really cute.  He pulled her aside in the kitchen and said, "See?  This is a brand new dishwasher!"  He just seemed so excited, and she was too.  We can't begrudge them at all, because they could have been persnickety about all the work that needs done and tried to knock a way bigger amount of money off the purchase price.   

Their inspector was super cool too.  He was nice, and he and Bryan sort of commiserated over some of the things, and discussed the work Bryan had done, and some possible fixes, and that it would be pretty easy to do this and that.  And that Bryan was generally going in the right direction with his repairs.  Total one-eighty from the guy that inspected it when we bought it.

So, only one hurdle left, the appraisal which is Friday now.  I have no issue with that.  Again, the comps (such as they are, for there are very few!) are going to save us, and they look great!