Owner build, Are we crazy to think we can be done within a month?
oakhidden
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We just put a stop to ALL work being done. Did we overreact?
Comments (31)Hi guys! No, I didn't finally jump over the ledge :) I just took a small hiatus. I boarded "charliedawg" in a kennel, packed the suitcases, got the family in the car and got the heck out of here. WHEW! If I ever build a house again (which I highly doubt I will) I will definitely put mental health vacation $$$$ in my budget. LOL Tragusa, I'm not glad that you had all of the problems but I'm glad to know that it worked out for you so I know it will all be ok fo me too. GC will be back tomorrow. She has ALWAYS made things perfect so I'm not sure why I doubted it now. I think I just felt out of control because she is gone. I'm not the type that needs to be in control of such a big project, I guess ya'll figured that out by now....See MoreCan we talk? I'm 54 and going crazy.
Comments (75)Unfortunately, I agree w/auntjen. My family has doctors in it back several generations (including one ancestor who treated people in both the Union and Confederate armies, believing that people are people no matter what), but they'd all be spinning in their graves/urns to see what's become of "medicine" and associated industries today. Big pharma doesn't feel it really has to "prove anything with science", either, as evidenced by the rampant cheating, misreporting, ignoring side effect reporting, balancing how many lives they can lose before the damages payments become overwhelming, before they have to do a recall, etc. Or maybe they feel the right to prove anything they want with 'science', is another way to look at it. Basically, as auntjen said, profit conquers all. Kind of funny to be warning against alternatives when some big pharma products have *just above* been revealed to be horrendous and decptively advertised. If I had waited for conventional medicine to address my hormonal issues adequately, I'd probably be in a mental hospital by now. Geting a friend's mom's reference to Emerita pro-gest when I was about 40 was the best medical thing to happen to me next to having cancerous moles taken off and a heart attack stopped with incredibly high levels of nitroglycerine. OH, and last month my pharmacy which has known me for about 5 years once again messed up my prescription for something I take every day, giving me a yet-cheaper generic rather than the somewhat-less-cheap generic they had been giving me before, even though I've told them every single month to order the somewhat-less-cheap one for me because the yet-cheaper one just *doesn't work*. Did I check this last month? NO, because I was harried and I guess I trusted them. I know them all by first name, one mom's daughter is on my daughter's XC team...but I was miserable for a MONTH because of human error in mainstream medicine, and because the so called generic "identical" meds, with loads of "science" stats behind them, are anything but. I don't trust any of it anymore....See MoreWe Think We Found Her!
Comments (11)Sabrina is here! She is very anxious and is pacing a lot. She will settle down and rest, near me, but she is scared and hand-shy. She has gone out twice since Leza left her here. The second time, I had to go out and herd her back into the house, with the help of both other dogs and DH. She had been out for 20 minutes or so, and would not come back into the house. We called and went out to her, but she kept backing away if we came within 10 ft. DH remarked that it was funny to watch us herding the herding-dog back in the house. Yep - she is an Australian Shepherd mix. She looks like an Aussie in the body and when I looked them up onine, I saw that they do come in her color. See the link below. I learned more about the "shelter" that she came from. It turns out that the lady with the concentration camp tattoo was the lady who died last summer. She helped out the owner with the dogs. The owner had 150 dogs at one time, but now they have her down to 7 dogs. Two of them are Sabrina's littermates. The rescue people have been giving the lady food for the dogs for three years now. She really neglected some of the health problems - like tumors and cherry eye and ear infections. Sabrina is finishing up her treatment for a yeast infection in her ears. She just got spayed two weeks ago. Toby is a bit interested in Sabrina, but Casey is obsessed. He loves her fluffy fur. He wants to hump her every chance he gets. We have been saying "Unh Unh Unh!" to the poor boy all night. Leza said that one of her dogs tried humping Sabrina a lot the first few days, but she growled at him and he quit. We expect it to take a week or so to let Sabrina settle in. Tomorrow I wil try to take some photos. Thanks for all the support! Here is a link that might be useful: Black Aussie with copper points....See MoreDone with the inspection, and now reviewing what we can negotiate
Comments (30)I've been reading this forums for 2 days straight non stop because we're in the process of selling our house, and this is the most ridiculous piece of advice I've heard so far. I'm sorry to tell you, but as a seller, if someone cam to me with this ridiculous list of things to do, we would sooner back out of the deal. Yes, we would do things that needed to be done do to code violations, and we would also do things that WE could do ourselves. But if you think a homeowner is going to start hiring all kinds of contractors and get on the phone to start calling and asking about bids, you are sadly mistaken, and you've been watching way too much HGTV. A lot of sellers rather just not deal with it, maybe they'll give you a deduction on the price, but to go all out like that. omg, that's crazy. Put down the remote control, walk away, and step back into reality. Quote: From what you've written, it sounds to me like you need more time to determine if the price you've agreed to is fair, but that you also need to respond to the inspection clause promptly. If that's the case, I'd suggest you use your repairs list to fine-tune your price. Be very agressive in your list of requested repairs and corrections. Throw in everything your inspectors brought up and ask that they hire licensed, bonded contractors to correct it and that the sellers obtain permit waivers (or whatever their called) for their DIY work from the city. Your list should be as long and burdensome as it can be without making you look like a total jerk. (Looking nervous is OK.) The sellers will need time to formulate a response, price out your requested repairs and get bids, and you should use this time to get all of the information you will need to determine in your own mind what price is fair and appropriate for a house:...See MoreNajeebah
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