I made a bid on the house, contingent on inspection.I am supposed to hear something on Friday. It needs some clean-up, and a new water heater. The furnace will have to be repaired or replaced. The overall condition of the main house is very good.The hardwood floors are in excellent condition as are the walls and ceilings.After the water heater is replaced, and the furnace is repaired or replaced, a little clean-up and I can move right in.The main house is 2 bedrooms and a full bath on the main floor and a 3/4 bath in the basement.big dining room and decent sized living room. Small but nice kitchen.The yard is fenced in, which is good for my dogs.
The coach house in back will need a clean-up and some plumbing in the kitchen.My oldest daughter will be able to move in after the plumbing and clean-up is done.It is in overall good condition also.It has a separate electric meter, but the gas for both structures is on one meter. It is a nice sized 3 room apartment with a full bath, with a very big bedroom and a decent kitchen.My daughter has room to park her car in half of the downstairs garage and the other half can be for storage and yard stuff.If I get this place, she will have it made, to say the least.She parks her car inside, and walks up the inside stairwell to her apartment.
The house is an estate sale. The elderly lady went into a nursing home, and medicaid demands the house be sold.The lady went to the nursing home a couple months ago, and the tenant that lived in the back coach house for many years, had to move the end of September. The utilities are still on, but medicaid has forbidden the utilities be paid for after the end of this month. They want every penny they can get out of that house.
I am leaving this all in God's hands. I absolutely love this house ! it is perfect for me, fits my daughters and my needs absolutely perfectly. Prayers needed. God's Will be done.
Quoting: tiger1 A water heater takes under one hour to install tiger1.
All that is needed is a screwdriver for moving the power cable from old to new, a saw to cut the pipes going to the old one and two push-on, no soldering required self-sealing and locking stainless steel goosenecks, an adjustable wrench and some teflon tape to put over the threads of the new tank and the wrench to tighten the new gooseneck line from the pipe coming out of the wall or wherever to connect it to the heater.
I hope you can find a friend, relative, or helpful GLP'er near you that can spare a couple of hours to buy you a new water heater, remove the old to the dump and install the new one.
The only difficult part of the task is removing the old tank and moving the new one into position. I have done it twice--'piece of cake'; mine is upstairs, I just slid the old one down the stair carpet and the new one up! I wish I were near you or still in Ohio only a few hours away.
Surely there must be a helpful GLP'er within a hundred miles of you.
I'm praying the home suits you, needs no major repairs, and you find the help you require to move and have any needed repairs done.
