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Jun. 18th, 2019 01:27 pmI am trying my hardest to do the impossible, which is to sell my house this year.
I had made decisions based on thinking that selling the house this year would be Perfectly Possible Just Put Your Mind To It And Do It. What I did not know was that there were open building permits, and real work to be done before these could be closed, and banks will not give you a mortgage for a property with open building permits. This gets me into an impossible situation where I have to find contractors to do work before the permits can be closed, but they are already all scheduled out beyond the time when families are looking for houses to buy.
I need to get a certified plot plan. Apparently this should’ve been done after the garage was built, to show that the footprint of what was built is the footprint that was approved. Fortunately, just as my realtor and I were casting around for a surveyor that could do a plot plan ASAP, someone from the engineering company working on the plan for the septic design showed up with surveyor equipment. She talked to the guy and they agreed to take a couple of extra measurements and get me a certified plot plan mid-week sometime. Hopefully there will be no snags in that process.
And the hot tub needs to be demolished. I could perhaps complete the demolition of the hot tub myself, if I borrowed or rented a Sawzall, and got a Bagster for the debris. But, what went without saying, I think, is that the big hole in the decking that remains when the hot tub is removed has to be replaced with intact deck. About a 6’ by 8’ expanse of deck, plus the joists underneath where the hot tub was.
Somehow my realtor and I have managed to play on the sympathies of the son of our first contractor (who is not responsible for the hot tub’s existence but whose building permit is being held up by the building inspector saying “there shouldn’t be a hot tub here”.) He is going to work weekends to fit it in, hallelujah! And for “only” about $4,000.
I get the feeling that contractors do not like to deal with women in a professional context. But I think I earned almost honorary guy status by getting in there myself, demolishing one wall of the hot tub enough to get to the plumbing, and capping off the plumbing myself. After early spring’s PVC pipe adventure, I own a hack saw, a bottle of the purple stuff, and a bottle of the blue stuff, and I know how to use them.
Deck renovation is promised to be done by July 2nd. Hopefully that happens without any new adventures and then we can try again to close the building permits.
So, plates have been set a-spinning, and nothing more I can reasonably do until either the certified plot plan shows up, or it gets late enough in the week that I can justifiably start to complain "hey where is it?"
I had made decisions based on thinking that selling the house this year would be Perfectly Possible Just Put Your Mind To It And Do It. What I did not know was that there were open building permits, and real work to be done before these could be closed, and banks will not give you a mortgage for a property with open building permits. This gets me into an impossible situation where I have to find contractors to do work before the permits can be closed, but they are already all scheduled out beyond the time when families are looking for houses to buy.
I need to get a certified plot plan. Apparently this should’ve been done after the garage was built, to show that the footprint of what was built is the footprint that was approved. Fortunately, just as my realtor and I were casting around for a surveyor that could do a plot plan ASAP, someone from the engineering company working on the plan for the septic design showed up with surveyor equipment. She talked to the guy and they agreed to take a couple of extra measurements and get me a certified plot plan mid-week sometime. Hopefully there will be no snags in that process.
And the hot tub needs to be demolished. I could perhaps complete the demolition of the hot tub myself, if I borrowed or rented a Sawzall, and got a Bagster for the debris. But, what went without saying, I think, is that the big hole in the decking that remains when the hot tub is removed has to be replaced with intact deck. About a 6’ by 8’ expanse of deck, plus the joists underneath where the hot tub was.
Somehow my realtor and I have managed to play on the sympathies of the son of our first contractor (who is not responsible for the hot tub’s existence but whose building permit is being held up by the building inspector saying “there shouldn’t be a hot tub here”.) He is going to work weekends to fit it in, hallelujah! And for “only” about $4,000.
I get the feeling that contractors do not like to deal with women in a professional context. But I think I earned almost honorary guy status by getting in there myself, demolishing one wall of the hot tub enough to get to the plumbing, and capping off the plumbing myself. After early spring’s PVC pipe adventure, I own a hack saw, a bottle of the purple stuff, and a bottle of the blue stuff, and I know how to use them.
Deck renovation is promised to be done by July 2nd. Hopefully that happens without any new adventures and then we can try again to close the building permits.
So, plates have been set a-spinning, and nothing more I can reasonably do until either the certified plot plan shows up, or it gets late enough in the week that I can justifiably start to complain "hey where is it?"
