All Forum Posts by: Shawn Thom

Will Barnard that is a great suggestion. I am going to explore how to word that in a repair addendum. Unfortunately on this particular one it wouldn't have helped me much because I was still doing other repairs as recently as Sunday. I had a horrible time getting my contractors to go out there to do stuff. Needless to say I learned a lot on dealing with contractors and timelines etc but I hope to be able to work this into any future ones. Great suggestion!

I agree, easy fix on the reversed polarity. Most of the times (from what I've heard) when they put a repair addendum they say it has to be done by licensed electrician.

Marc Donovan I have already have an electrician doing the repairs. I was just asking about options and the fact it was discovered after inspection period.

You are absolutely correct. I bought one for $5 and I'll be adding that to my list of things to inspect in the future.

...and obviously, I do now know about checking these myself for the next ones.....

I am hoping to close on my first rehab/sell this Friday.

During the inspection period the buyer did identify 2 plugs in the kitchen that have reversed polarity and some wiring that needs to go into a junction box in the attic. I have the electrician come out, he finds actual 3 plugs in the kitchen to fix and fixes them, then puts wiring in attic in junction box.

Buyer's do an inspection 2 days ago (that's a rant for another thread) and tell me that other plugs are broken too. I told them we fixed the 2 that were identified in the inspection.

today I get the full list. He has others that have reversed polarity and open grounds. He claims that when they put the junction box in the must have "messed everything up". I get one of the plugs pulled that is said to have a open ground and it doesn't even have a grounding cable in it. I talk to my GC and he said what he thinks probably happened is that the house was originally wired with out them and some one later came and put 3 prong plugs in but never cabled the ground.

So my question is that this was found after inspection period. I think I can show that it was that way prior since it doesn't even have a ground cable.

If I push back they would probably walk and I suspect I'd have to fix it anyway for the next buyer. If it came down to it, I suspect they could get the mortgage company to pull the mortgage off the table so they could get ernest money back etc but that is just a guess.

Whats your strategy on it? fix/flip? hold?

HUD didn't force your tenant to break her lease did they?

I've tried to do it a few times. I have not been able to figure out how to do interest only loans.

also if you adjust anything it messes up that line and you have to remove and re-enter. at least thats been my experience.

I have better luck with a spreadsheet.

I may be understanding the fileplace wrong so I don't know if this is a bug or not.....

On the free membership it says you can download 10 files per week.

When I try to download a file, I get an error stating I can not download more than 3 per week.

Welcome!