FHA inspection was this morning. Very nice lady came through with her original handwritten notes, and we checked off each and every item.

Still lots to do, but now we have the great and wonderful advantages of a) re-stocking our savings account (check's in the mail!), and b) no more deadlines other than our own.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

The wife and went through a FHA inspection years ago, it was a *****. I think that those inspections are a good thing for potential home buyers. BTW I will mow your lawn for a case of beer.

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Nice house.

I hate FHA btw, they suck to deal with. Sadly thats all thats out their these days.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Whoo Hoo!!

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83 SD

84 CD

Goes to show what a little hard work can do to beautify a house. These days there seem to be a lot more lazy people who simply let their houses go down the tubes.

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

That's a beautiful house.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

Right now the only difference between and FHA inspection and conventional is closer attention is paid to peeling paint, HVAC serviceability and utilities...and that is only closer attention. An FHA loan should be easier in most regards to conventional loans right now.

Thanks for the kind words folks.

Just to clarify - we have an FHA rehab loan (203k). Initial inspection (pre-close) came up with a list of 60 or so items that had to be cleared. Initial deadline was 6 months, but we were able to get an extension (original contractor passed away, Ma got cancer & we are her full time care, Ed had strokes, had to get a house bought and ready for them in town, etc).

Many of the items were simple (replace missing switch plates, broken windows, etc) some of them more involved (rotted soffits, moldy basement, restore power to the barn, build doors for the barn, etc).

The biggest bucket of work was dealing with the peeling paint. Even though every surface tested negative for lead, FHA says it all must die. So every wall, (interior and exterior), every ceiling, all the trim, and the porch - had to be dealt with. If you've not seen the before and after shots, there are some in this post: Hump day thread.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

You're on!

Gonna have to bring your own mower, or some welding gear. I found the remnants of an old horseshoe pit (bent over re-bar) with my lawn tractor - twisted the deck and broke one of the blade mounts......

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

Nice house!!

Looks like a design and paint choice on a home owned by Morgan Freeman...

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

Good for you, Jim! The house looks great and you guys have been busting your hump to get it done. Time for a drink!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

How are the rates today? Ramonajim- nice house and congrats.

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2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Thank you, and done.

Darling Wife made an amazingly yummy tortellini with butter sage sauce (cannot begin to describe how much better fresh picked from our own garden sage tastes than ANYTHING from a store or farm stand) for dinner last night.

Sat up our funky three foot tall cast iron candelabras on either side of the porch table, grabbed a bottle of a very nice sweet white wine, and brought Ma outside to join us for a lovely hour plus of decadently rich dinner, fun conversation, deer watching, and firefly counting.

Life is good.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

Don't let the kids run in the street!!

Cool, I'm use to finding metal things in my lawn. When I bought my house here in KY in 1997 I mowed right the hell over a still. I will be at your house in the morning, have breakfast ready.

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