Inspection

We had the home inspection Friday afternoon. The house was given a clean bill of health, with a few very minor caveats.

The only weird moment was when I was about to pay the guy for the inspection. It seemed that he and the realtor were unsure about how much it was supposed to cost. I figured this would have all been worked out ahead of time, and I certainly didn't know (to me it was just something we had to do), but I think Chris and Liane had done most of the communicating on that. Chris finally threw out a figure of $275. The guy just stood there and looked at him for what seemed to be one of those eternally long negotiating moments, and then acquiesced that, "$300 would be better, but I'll do $275." Weird. It never occurred to me that this was negotiable, and certainly not negotiable after the work had been done.

Toward the end of the inspection Chris asked about Radon testing. They guy said they don't do that, but can subcontract it. Thought it would be around $150. Liane pointed out that she thinks it had been done because there was a paper in a stack on the bar about it. It had no helpful info though. It was really just a clue that it had been done. Chris called the listing agent and was able to find out that it had passed, but we'd probably have to pay the company for a copy of the official results. Nope. That's good enough for me. Chris really came through here.

Last night I received, as promised, a detailed 35 page report from the inspector.

One more thing checked off the list.