Happy (?!) Harriet Homeowner
News Flash...
The housing prices in Northern VA suck pond water. Like a vacuum. There's something inherently WRONG with paying _a quarter of a million dollars_ for a _one-bedroom_ place (even IF it's in a decent neighborhood)!! Of course this is nothing new to anyone going through the purchase of a home... but it resurfaced in my head when I did the walkthrough of Darrin's new condo this morning.
The short version of what we found wrong:
- The countertops were scratched up (for being brand new, this is bad)
- The hardwood floors in the kitchen and pantrywere dented -- which I don't know that they'll ever get "right", considering they have to remove appliances to get it right in the first place
- Something wrong with a window?
- The sink stopper didn't go up and down right
- There wasn't a stopper in the bathtub
- The towelracks weren't mounted
- A random-colored paint splotch on a window sill. This wouldn't've confused or concerned me, if that paint color were ANYWHERE else in the condo.
- Our personal favorite! The construction people managed to put up a light and leave the instructions for how to put the light together IN the light globe!!
I had a my-parents'-age friend of mine tell me how happy she was that she and her husband weren't "starting out" again -- mostly because of the housing prices. enter sinking feeling
So we go to closing on Wednesday at 10 - with another walkthrough before that at 8. Gee, this keeps getting earlier and earlier. Darrin and I promise that move-in will not start at 8 AM. We'll be calling in favors... Keep your phones (or screennames) close by ;) ...
xoxox
hlm
The housing prices in Northern VA suck pond water. Like a vacuum. There's something inherently WRONG with paying _a quarter of a million dollars_ for a _one-bedroom_ place (even IF it's in a decent neighborhood)!! Of course this is nothing new to anyone going through the purchase of a home... but it resurfaced in my head when I did the walkthrough of Darrin's new condo this morning.
The short version of what we found wrong:
- The countertops were scratched up (for being brand new, this is bad)
- The hardwood floors in the kitchen and pantrywere dented -- which I don't know that they'll ever get "right", considering they have to remove appliances to get it right in the first place
- Something wrong with a window?
- The sink stopper didn't go up and down right
- There wasn't a stopper in the bathtub
- The towelracks weren't mounted
- A random-colored paint splotch on a window sill. This wouldn't've confused or concerned me, if that paint color were ANYWHERE else in the condo.
- Our personal favorite! The construction people managed to put up a light and leave the instructions for how to put the light together IN the light globe!!
I had a my-parents'-age friend of mine tell me how happy she was that she and her husband weren't "starting out" again -- mostly because of the housing prices. enter sinking feeling
So we go to closing on Wednesday at 10 - with another walkthrough before that at 8. Gee, this keeps getting earlier and earlier. Darrin and I promise that move-in will not start at 8 AM. We'll be calling in favors... Keep your phones (or screennames) close by ;) ...
xoxox
hlm
posted by Holly Lynne at 6:15 PM
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