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Re: strapping question
Bill,
Wasn't that area called Countryside Ranches, or something like that?
I inspected a few homes out there and they all had their own quirks.
One I remember had a homemade ground source (buried loops or copper tubing) geothermal cooling and heating.
The owner said it all worked and cooled okay, but when I took the top off the wooden box which was the cover for everything I, and my client, went 'What to crap is this supposed to be ... ?', and it went downhill from there the more I looked at it. An HVAC contractor who lived down the street "designed it and built it" ... I *would not* want to take credit for that thing - it was laughable, except my client wasn't laughing, they were crying - it was an As Is sale. I explained why that was 'a good thing' and he recovered. As I recall, he backed out based on that As Is clause "Subject to a satisfactory inspection." - what a piece of crap everything in that house was.
Sure, there was 5 acres, but land is not all there is to it when you are buying 'a house' to 'live in'.
Have a good weekend at FABI.
Our daughter and her baby (now 20 months old) are moving out to an apartment, we moved most of the stuff last weekend and are moving the rest this weekend. Tonight is the first night without them in about 4-6 months (seems like a year, though) - it's actually quite in the house again.
See you in Orlando in December.
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