The Building Inspection

The history of a house turns out to be important. It is not just about who lived and died there, who got married, fell in love or divorced, but the whole idea of what parts came first, what got added, when was the roof last patched and how old is the oldest timber. It turns out that a building inspection is worse than going to the doctor and having him run a camera up unmentionable places and probe out all your secrets. They can inspect a house and know almost to a year when all the major work was done.

So we are having the building inspector go over our hopeful house, tracing all the history, all the additions, remodeling, plumbing and electrical changes as well as roof repairs, restructures and refittings. We hope that there are no unknown problems or issues and wait for the results with out fingers crossed because that determines whether a house is a smart buy or a deep black hole that will suck up all your money. Needless to say we are not in the market for a black hole at this time.

Wish us luck; that is tomorrow morning.