Well...maybe we's moving and maybe we's ain't
Your prayers are sought for our sanity. A mere 11 days to closing and a new roof about to be installed and we just hear that the buyer's lender's appraiser is questioning about permits for the remodel/addition to our house. Well...there weren't permits when I bought the house, there weren't permits when I refinanced the house and there aren't permits now. And I never got permits for the finishing up that I did - I'm too much of a poor libertarian.
Anyway, it is all up in the air at the moment and we are just waiting to hear what will happen. We have no idea if the appraiser is saying he cannot apparise the home at the selling price or what. We just do not know for sure. It is a stressfull situation because the installation of the new roof was being paid for by escrow per the purchase/sale agreement. And we wait to know if we ourselves are moving in 11 days (then homeless for three days) in a moving truck all lined up and paid for and the purchase of our new home completely agreed upon and done.
Everything: the excitement, the joy, the dreams, the work, and the money of three entire families hangs on the opinion of one person who deems himself competent to appraise the value of a bunch of wood.
Anyway...God's will be done, it is an issue utterly out of our hands. We wait. And it's the waiting that kills you...better to know, either way so that we can get on with life. Limbo sucks.
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I am sure you know this, but if you need to bounce something off of me, I'd be happy to help.
AND the roofing job will be costing significantly more than we expected.
sigh...I'm half tempted to pack everything up right now and drive to Alaska, build my own house without permits and offer many curses upon the real estate, mortgage, roofing and home inspection industry.
A pox upon them all.
Sigh, hugs and prayers.
Of course, a "passover" to all good people in said poxed industries. Take an unblemished lamb and slay it, then take its blood and mark..
I do hope all goes well for you and that in six months, it will all seem like it was just a small hiccup.
Still waiting to know the outcome of it all.
:)
You didn't by any chance do anything with:
wiring
plumbing
bathrooms
load bearing walls?
Did you?
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- Steve K?
http://www.ci.bothell.wa.us/dept/CD/bldpermitting/needed.html
Notice that butt wiping is not listed, hence a permit must be required.
The appraiser says his appraisal is "contingent" on permits being present for the conversion of the garage into living space - something that happened before I moved in and I'm quite certain they do not exist.