Our new home!

The inspection was today, and it's solid! This will be our new home! What a glorious feeling. We are totally delighted. It was so easy to hang out in there while the inspector looked at every little thing, and it was such a pleasure, after the Greenlake debacle, to have him turn up plenty of good news. The foundation is poured concrete, solid as a rock. The roof and the furnace are both great, new and high-quality, and those are big-ticket items. He was also impressed with the basement, which seems amazingly dry and fresh and has great headroom. The house is move-in ready -- there's not a thing we need to do to it to enjoy living there, and none of the work that needs doing is urgent. There are some systems that have not had the updates that are due to them, and we need to plan for that in the coming years. Probably half the plumbing is steel that is nearing the end of its lifespan; the wiring is mostly the old knob-and-tube stuff; the ventilation and insulation in the attic are not the best; and the deck is an amateur job that is not holding up very well. We hope to live in this house for a long time... we want to take good care of it (and hope we can find the funds to do so). It was good to feel like the inspection was about getting to know the house and its long-term needs, rather than finding out that it was a falling-down rathole.

Jordan and Aaron's school is just a few blocks away, so as the inspection was winding up, I went and picked Jordan up early and showed him around. He was nervous, which I think is to be expected; moving is a huge change, and hard to imagine. But this was a start.

Here are the walkthroughs, one inside and one out. Enjoy!