Is This What Final Inspection's Supposed To Look Like?
May/22/08 09:05 AM
I need a few extra hours of sleep, my wife needs a break from the house, my plumber needs more money, and my electrician needs a good beating with a blunt object. In fact, we have now postponed the final inspection another day so that the electrician can figure out why half of the house does not have electricity. Grrrrrrrr.
The above photos show the current state of the house going into the inspection. It’s sort of ironic how the whole inspection system works. It exists to protect the homeowner, and by all means it is a good tool to keep contractors from screwing you over; but for a renovator who does most of the work themselves it can be quite a pain in the arse. For instance, I had to buy the cheapest flimsiest fixtures just to slap up to pass inspection. And normally I would take my time and do it right with the highest quality of materials and the finest attention to detail. BUT, in order to pass final inspection, so we can move in (because we can’t move in until we do), we have had to cut a few corners. In the current state of the house I feel it is slapped up and duct taped together so that we can pass inspection and get in there. After we do, of course we will go back and fix it all. So in this case the inspection system is causing me extra work, extra money and extra headaches, when I would LOVE to do it right the first time.
I understand it is partly my fault for agreeing to let the renters move in on June 1st at our current house, but you can’t pass up a good renter when they come along. Trust me, in another house that we have in Rogers, we have renters that most landlords have nightmares about. But that is another story.