Inspection Finished

House inspection today, mostly went well:
There is a broken valve in the water line attached to the well, easy fix.

 There is a lot of sand in the water pipes, not just gunk from sitting for a year so pump probably needs a screen.

 There isn't a lot of insulation under the floor, basically none.
The crawl space is mostly dry.

 There is no attic access,
The roof is only about 5 years old and its a 30 year roof.
There were no bugs anywhere, besides little spiders under the house.
It has good water pressure.
There are a LOT of electrical outlets.
The wood fireplace flue is rotted and needs to be replaced.
The gas (propane) fireplace is in good condition with a metal chimney insert in good condition.

That's about it for things the inspector was concerned about. He didn't even go out to the barn area.
Things I noticed:
The gutters would work better if they weren't full of leaves from the neighbors trees, the down spouts would work better if they were hooked up to the drain pipes properly.
The French doors could easily be kicked in,

need something inside as secondary floor lock.

Inspection

Today we will have the inspection done on the new house and farm. Lan and I will be there to assist and pay the guy, its supposed to be about $359 but I'm wondering if its going to be more? While we're there I want to measure a couple rooms and take notes, take more photos.

Lan and I talked about selling this place ~vs~ renting and we have decided to definitely sell. Why? Because a guy I work with used to be a land lord and he'd save money for a new dishwasher & then the tenant would call saying the water heater was broke. He'd save for a new bike & the tenant called, they had let the pipes freeze in the barn/under the house/ whatever.

I do not want to be a slum lord nor be renter poor.

So I let Cassie know its for sale, for her we will go as low as $176,000, because I really want her to get this place. The house isn't much but the barn and arena are perfect for her needs.

Otherwise I have it advertised on FB for $200,000 and have a couple people interested. One chick was all uptight that I wouldn't show pictures of the inside of the house but I told her that any prospective buyers need to have a preapproval letter in hand and show it to me before I'll share my personal space. Actually the inside of the house is a dump and I don't want anyone to see that. I'm not totally stipid.  LOL, yes, I just typed that.

Lans parents are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary today, yay for them. We're all going out to dinner tomorrow in Olympia. For whatever reason Jean thinks no one can go out to dinner on a Friday night so I had to not only give up hours at work but give up sellers pay too. I'll only be getting about 20 hours. And its in Olympia, very convenient for Terrys REALTOR friend. He said we need to have her list it so she can make the commission. Um, excuse me, we don't need no stinking realtor but if we did I'd go with someone IN THIS FUCKING AREA. She lives in Centralia, about 75 miles from here, shes not going to be coming up here to do an open house or any of that shit so NO, thanks.
We have a horse property expert realtor in this area that I'm perfectly happy with so if need be, I'll go with her.

OMG!

Its going to be ours.

 

Just made an offer

Lan & I and his parents just made an offer of $265,118 for the farm. The other bank has until Wednesday to let us know and I *think* there are 2 other offers but not positive and at least one is over the asking price. We could have a higher offer but worse credit/income/debit ration so for now its just wait and see.........

Imagine this

Can you imagine this?

Multiples

The house has multiple offers so its a wait and see game with the bank. Lan likes the place and it looks like his parents are willing to cosign a loan with us if needed. What we need is a down payment and really good luck.

 

I would love to call this place my home.

While we were there Lan practically tripped over 2 deer and we saw this guy.

 

Someone will be getting a nice place for an incredible price, I just hope its us.

Rain

I've got just my own horses in the barn, its been a month since there has been a boarder, almost 4 months since I 've had a paying boarder. So I get to do all the daily work myself, all the stall cleaning, all the hay bag filling, all the grain buckets, all the cleaning water buckets.

 

But with winter coming on its going to be getting tricky because I need to get the horses turned out but not leave them out in nasty rain. I can open the gate to Joeys run and he can come & go as he pleases but with the girls I have to let them out & close a gate after them. Then they are stuck outside with just 1 shelter to share. Today I went out to the pasture to bring them in before I left for work and Sunshower was in the shelter and Wifi had her head in but the rest of her body was out. Not fair!

 

But that is horsey drama and lucky for Wifi, Sunshower loves her girl and will let her put her head in there at all.

 

I will admit that Lan has done some feeding for me and I make it as easy for him as I can. If I know its going to be a nice day tomorrow I'll put out hay tonight so all the horses do is go out. If its going to be nasty I have Lan put them into the other 3 stalls which already have their hay bags hanging and fresh water so hes not feeding them in sandy floor poopy stalls.

 

Two days ago I went and checked out another farm that's for sale and I really like it. Its between here and Lans parents house, over on Bethel Burley. The price has been dropped 100K in the last 6 months or so and the bank is now asking 255k. It won't accept offers nor do any repairs nor cover any of the closing costs. If we buy the place its up to us to come up with all those expenses.

Its almost 5 acres with a real house and a small covered arena. Its got 4 stalls but I'd only use 2 of those as stalls.

 

Big pasture out front

 

and another big one out back but that one is full of black berries.

 

Front garage

 

Back garage. its not so bad inside

 

 

Arena is about 60x50

 

with 2 attached stalls and two others in the barn

 

Here is the gorgeous kitchen, its had work done on it

 

 

living room with upstairs

 

If I buy this house I'm doing this

 

This is where the stairs go. There are 3 bedrooms up there, 2 with jack & jill bathroom

 

The living room has French doors that look over the back yard and arena area. There is a covered patio here.

 

And the driveway is long.

 

The address of this house is 10628. In the past I heard that the number 8 is good luck and if your house numbers add up to 8 then its a good house to live in. This place adds up to 8!

Our current house ads up to 5 and that's not so bad, the Tacoma house I had was an 8 and even though I moved away from there it was a happy place for me.

 

I'd love to have a real house to live in and bigger pastures for my horses. This farm that we live in now is nice and has a great barn and arena but the pasture sucks.

 

Dying... I mean dieting

Today is the last day of my diet again. I was pretty good until Brandan brought home a PIZZA!  I actually ate 1.5 slices. It wasn't good and I wasn't hungry enough for the whole 2nd piece but I ate it anyway.

I started out at 148.6 and lost 7 lbs. I'm totally happy with that. I look and feel better. I'll be getting on the Computrainer tomorrow and feeling better than I wouldn't have otherwise.

Today I got my hair cut and it feels so entirely light again. Amanda was there, its her mom that cuts it for me. Amanda and I like to ride mtn bikes together, shes got the strength and I have the skill so we are even. I hope I can ride with her a lot this winter, its so much fun.

Weather man has been saying its going to be super cold or else warmer than normal. Well then. 

Windy will be running her 1st marathon on Sunday, the Portland Marathon. Shes going to do amazingly well. Shes so sweet, she dedicated mile 19 to me because shes never gone more than 18 miles before and 19 is where she will think about me. Its humbling when someone says they have been inspired by you.

I bought a new used saddle for Sunshower; Cassie sold me her Circle Y Park & Trail leather cordura saddle. I've used it before on my mare and it fits her very well, way better than her previous saddle. So I cleaned up the old one & have it on Craigslist to sell. I paid $250 for the new one, asking 250 for mine and hope to get 200.

Today Lan & I tore the roof off the carport and tomorrow we will put a new roof on. I certainly hope it all goes easily. LOL.

 

 

We're going to put plastic corrugated roofing on the top now with some clear ones to allow more light into the house. That will make this a much happier home.

 

My road bike seat has been returned to me, last weekend someone brought it here and left it on our gate. Lan found it. I'm pretty happy, I can now ride that bike outside and have my tri bike on the computrainer.