Friday, May 28, 2010

The Joys of Home Ownership...

So here's a story for you. Post-inspection, we had a few requests that the seller agreed to fix. One of them was re-attaching a piece of loose siding near the roof. We asked them to do it because it was up so high, and the seller was a contractor so it would be an easy fix for them. When we did our final walk through before closing it was still there. We asked about it and they panicked and said "OMG, we're sooo sorry, we forgot about that one! We'll do it, it's all cool. We'll come out sometime in the next week or two and fix it." Seeing as the seller was actually the listing agent's brother, we thought 'ok, we won't push for it to be done before we sign on the dotted line. we can always track them down easy because of the connections.'

3 weeks later... they still hadn't come! So I called the realtor, who called them, and they agreed to come out before end of business on Friday to fix it (this was a Monday). Well guess what happened that night? Yup, a raccoon found it. I heard banging and freaked that someone was trying to get into our house. I made Brian go check, and 'someone' was, but it was a furry someone.

The next morning there was pink construction foam all over our yard! And the piece of siding that was hanging off was now a HUGE piece. I called our realtor, and she freaked! She took care of it, and got the guys over to fix it within 24 hours. And she assured me that if the raccoon had gotten in the wall, THEY would also pay and take care of that removal as well (he didn't). Since we had a contract that this would be fixed, they had to follow through.

So luckily it all worked out, and our house has been repaired with no cost to us. Talk about a wild start!

Also, I <3 our realtor!

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