“Very old” – like, since you and your workers have been there? Or, ancient?
Petrified? Human or large dog? Mountain lion?
He is insisting Human. But old and dried out. I personally have not investigated yet 
Perhaps it can be ignored.
Don’t worry about it, maybe it is a dead CAT…
My offer for the La Mesa house on 1/2 acre with foundation issues was not accepted. Seller is heir and has brothers and sisters so she feels she has to put it back on the market. Listing Agent promised she will keep me in the loop and feels that they may change their mind soon.
I’ll say…whew…for now. It gives you time to see ponder this one…plus the owners might come down on the price.
Phew! $$ Disaster averted. Be careful with informal offers, cb. There’s that infamous case where an offer drawn on a napkin was accepted by the seller and later some judge found it to be a legal and binding contract!
I agree I’d be VERY cautious about this agent AND this particular house. Who knows what other things have NOT been disclosed. She sounds unreliable. I’d also be VERY cautious about an “informal offer,” and am glad it was rejected.
What not to do in your kitchen:
https://www.yahoo.com/makers/killer-kitchens-10-unique-cooking-c1432166819538.html
Honestly, who comes up with this stuff? Most of these are borderline hilarious.
Eek! I’m much fonder of the kitchens that CB creates. They are much more functional and not as dizzying or headache-inducing. I guess the neutral we like is considered “bland.” Give me a blander kitchen any day!
Wow, nre!!! That’s some heavy duty kitchen porn! Some of those kitchens are beyond hilarious. Have to say that #6 makes sense if the owners like to entertain or eat outside - I’m feeding Mr. outside on the porch and I probably got my daily fitbit quota of steps running back and forth to the kitchen to fetch this and that! We even considered something like that for cb’s Hoarder’s House.
Boy, some of those you hope you don’t have a hangover stumbling in to get some coffee and all that crazy geometry is whirling your brain!
The trees coming up through the floor would worry me. What is going to keep bugs and critters from coming up through those watering grates in the floor ? What is going to keep those tree roots away from your foundation structure??
I wouldn’t choose most of them for myself, but I really, really like many of those kitchens. I like when people go out on a limb a bit design-wise. My ex- worked in the art world and had a lot of artist friends who did fabulous and fanciful things like that in their houses. I admired it.
I’m OK with an informal offer, I wouldn’t put anything in an email or verbal conversation that I wasn’t willing to sign. Would not make an offer until doing a thorough physical inspection. I’m not as thorough as a Home Inspector because I really don’t care whether the kitchen appliances work or hinges off doors or doors don’t lock, smoke detectors missing or carpet trip hazard or something.
I didn’t mean to be flippant about the informal offers.
After doing all of the inspections I can and crunching all of my costs, I have a comfortable offer price. I’d much rather run it by the agent (with other terms that are important to me) to see if it is even going to fly before spending a lot of time writing up mounds of paperwork. I don’t want to waste the agent’s time and they appreciate that.
However, in a multiple offer situation, it’s best to get it all in writing on an official Purchase Agreement because they are dealing with a lot of competing offers and I want to make sure all of the detailed terms and conditions are clear.
We have a pass through window, the screen rolls to the side (like the hidden screens on french doors). Very handy. And the loft kitchen makes sense…but some of those kitchens have to much pattern for me.
I don’t think you were flippant about the informal offers. Far better to “run it by” the agent before doing a lot of paperwork, especially if it’s going to be significantly different than what they were expecting…and that happens when you find big problems.
The structural engineer has reviewed the plans and he has some major shear wall and structure changes in order to open up the living room for the Nana Wall - so that is off the plate on this project.
I stood upstairs and downstairs and have decided that the best place for the staircase is where he drew it - heading north into the Master Bedroom closet. It will reduce the master bedroom closet a bit, but it was just too choppy to start the stairs in the current dining room. It would have created a lot of ‘dead space’ in that small area and the stairs would have been very visible as you enter the house. I want everyone to enter the house and have their eyes drawn all the way across to the views.
Draftsman has come up with a good idea on how to reconfigure the bathroom so that we can have a pocket door entry from the family room. There will be two doorways into the bathroom and I can keep the exterior south door entry where it is.
Some progress photos of completed wiring and plumbing loaded.
I also took a picture of the revised bathroom plan downstairs
“The structural engineer has reviewed the plans and he has some major shear wall and structure changes in order to open up the living room for the Nana Wall - so that is off the plate on this project.”
Well, that simplifies the path forward - good news.