It's Thursday, we TWERK

[akafred]

My house buyers are really pissing me off. First they asked for every single thing the inspector identified, and they identified (as they usually do) things that are not really a big deal. Like there not being a smoke detector in the living room (but there is one in every other non-bath-room in the house), an exterior hose bibb being a little loose, the crawl door needing paint, the exterior door not having a door sweep, even a couple of door stops incl rooms that have the hinge type. There were about 3-4 things I consider legit which we have no problem with. The inspector only went in one side of the attic access in the bonus room and told them there wasn't access to the main part of the attic and it should be cut into the ceiling of a closet. We agreed to let the inspector come back and look in the other side which connects to the main attic, and after some back and forth we went ahead and agreed to all the dumb stuff but the door stops.

The inspector came back on Thursday. My H and I were both home and the inspector was here a total of 6 minutes, probably 4 of which were in the attic. I know I heard him over the bedroom so he made it all around. He didn't find anything, but the buyers asked for another access to be cut into a closet anyway. My realtor didn't even ask; he just said no. The handyman has already been and gone and they can just do it themselves once they move in if it is that important to them. It's not going to be an attic that will be good for storage or that you could convert to living space. And even so, those little hatch openings aren't good for getting stuff in for storage anyway.

The appraisal hasn't come back yet. I am sweating it. We went 10k over what the realtor suggested. I think we listed at EXACTLY the right time because as far as I can tell the last few days have been bad. The much smaller house down the street that listed for 10k under what we did have reduced twice and are now 25k lower. DD's friends' house up the street finally went on the market. They sold to one of those home buyers because there are or were major foundation issues; it went on the market "As Is" for dirt cheap. They clearly painted but I'm curious if they even fixed the foundation. It is worth noting that both these houses still have a higher $/sf than ours, but they are 600-1100 sf smaller than ours. I'm also seeing new listings at a lower $/sf than I was previously. So if this appraises, I feel like we listed at just the right timing. If it doesn't, I really hope the buyers pay the difference or some of it. But so far they have been totally unreasonable and I am not even wanting to leave them a bottle of wine.

[supertrooper1]

librarychica, my parents sold my grandma's house to the renters. They did a rent to own/owner contract type thing. If the renters decided they didn't want to buy it after all or defaulted, my parents kept the money as rent and it didn't affect the renter's credit. It's worked out for them. Maybe you can do something like that if the renters want to buy the house?

[judyblume14]

frozenpeas, so weird. Tell your H to staahhppp giving him money!

itsme, how was the competition? I do crossfit, too. But from the looks of your avatar, I'm not quite as hard core ;-)

[mommyatty]

frozenpeas, idea! Next time you see him, say, "Hey, I hate to ask this, but I need $50. You owe MH, right? So can I just get it now?"

And yes, it's weird. Very weird.

[traveltheworld]

Jun 25, 2017 9:02:00 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

frozenpeas, idea! Next time you see him, say, "Hey, I hate to ask this, but I need $50. You owe MH, right? So can I just get it now?"

And yes, it's weird. Very weird.

I love that idea!

[frozenpeas]

Jun 25, 2017 9:02:00 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

frozenpeas, idea! Next time you see him, say, "Hey, I hate to ask this, but I need $50. You owe MH, right? So can I just get it now?"

And yes, it's weird. Very weird.

That is a great idea. If I thought it would work, I'd get past my own discomfort and ask him (silly, I know). But I'm absolutely certain he wouldn't have it to give me. Plus, he's concluded that DH is the only one who is entrusted with cash in the family & now he knows better than to ask me for $. I'd hate to tip my hand and lose that for nothing.

And I assume he didn't get paid yesterday, because no $ in our mailbox. Big surprise.

[itsme]

Jun 24, 2017 18:58:58 GMT -5 judyblume14 said:

frozenpeas , so weird. Tell your H to staahhppp giving him money!

itsme , how was the competition? I do crossfit, too. But from the looks of your avatar, I'm not quite as hard core ;-)

It was a lot of fun.  I didn't place or anything but it was fun to be there with 20 others from my gym and hang out.  There were 3 WODs, one at each of 3 boxes which we had to run to (6.4 miles total) and I had a blast with it.  How long have you been doing CF?  

[judyblume14]

Jun 26, 2017 9:22:38 GMT -5 itsme said:

Jun 24, 2017 18:58:58 GMT -5 judyblume14 said:

frozenpeas , so weird. Tell your H to staahhppp giving him money!

itsme , how was the competition? I do crossfit, too. But from the looks of your avatar, I'm not quite as hard core ;-)

It was a lot of fun.  I didn't place or anything but it was fun to be there with 20 others from my gym and hang out.  There were 3 WODs, one at each of 3 boxes which we had to run to (6.4 miles total) and I had a blast with it.  How long have you been doing CF?  

Oh, that does sound fun. Except I hate hate running. I've been doing crossfit for about 6 years now.  Went into labor with DD1 within hours of PR'ing my power clean and stringing together 75 double unders for the first time ever.  With DD2, I was in denial I was in labor, and still went to open gym to make up a missed WOD from the day before.

It sounds kinda cool to see that typed out. But to put it into perspective, this is the first year of 4 that I didn't cut Murph in half, and I scale the pullups  I'm a really super average athlete. 

[itsme]

judyblume14 it sounds like you are way hardcore! I haven't been PG since starting CF but I don't think I'd be able to hit any PRs when I'm about to have a baby. You are pretty badass!

OMG, Murph. I was so glad I had a reason to skip it this year (went on a hike instead) and I don't feel guilty at all. I'm pretty average as well. My lifts aren't on par with where I probably should be but I am still happy with how far I've come in the sport. And running? I was demolished a few years back during a comp where there was running and from that day forward I vowed to start running. Since then I became a runner as well as a CFer. I used to catch flak for it by the other gym-goers but then they started seeing that I was improving in CF and they shut it.

[judyblume14]

itsme , my gym posts the next day's WOD on Facebook every night. I have only once ever skipped specifically because of the workout posted. It started and ended with a one mile run. Good for you for committing to improving. As for me? Nahhhhh.

[itsme]

judyblume14 I also started running to lose weight. I detested running with all my being before that but once I started running and dropping weight the gymnastic movements in CF became easier and I no longer dreaded running WODs. I used to cherry pick the heck out of WODs and make any excuse not to go but I stopped doing that because it was only hurting me and I wasn't making the progress I wanted to make. Now I power through and cuss throughout most WODs but I do it.