Weeelllll, I'm hoping to get him to stain the trim on the front windows, which were installed 2 years ago. You weren't thinking something lewd were you???
Betsey
Me???!!! Of course NOT!!!!!!
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
depending on the degree of the termite "problem" there are various things you can do...
a termite "problem" can mean many things..could simply mean there are termites in the ground near the house.
if there is structural damage due to termites....eeeek?
if there are termites present but not yet an infestation (or much damage) an exterminator can take care of the problem...the cost of wich should be taken care of by the seller.
so, either you or the realtor have to find out the degree of the "problem", speak to a reputable exterminator, negotiate with the seller in regard to the "problem" and how treatment of said "problem" will be payed for if the "problem" isn't so severe that you decline in purchasing the home.
Hey Pam - We have termites too, but the nest was under some garages across the road. They xmen got the whole nest out, filled the land, muked the surrounding. Took FOREVER to clean up dead bodies that cropped up everywhere. But no other damage. Like LL said, the spectrum of termite impact is huge.
Keeping my fingers crossed yours is a minor case. Slowly.
ps. lots of happy people on this island today, England beat Switzerland 3-0
The home inspection was this morning and he didn't really find anything too major.
But because I guess we had been around I didn't realize that this house is a bit low, I don't think real low but the back yard has places that had water standing in it today. Not good for the shelties. One of the trees in the back yard looks like it isn't going to make it. The trunk is black all the way around and bark is coming off close to the base.
The back yard seemed bigger last time I was there, I guess just adjusting to looking at it.
It just all seems sooooo small. I mean I am used to being able to walk back my drive a nice long ways to the barn and the picnic shelter and there are still fields around me. Here there is no place to go. I am trying to look at it like my apartment. But when I was in my apartment I had David and we were hopefully looking at a future that didn't include an apartment.
I didn't mind it to much, but sitting there in that house today for 3 hours I felt sooooooooooooo ALONE. Why more alone there then in this house I'm not sure unless it is because this is where David lived with me and his stuff is all still here. I guess like he had died, his ghost and his belongings are still here.
I wish I could stay here. I don't want to leave it. I thought maybe I did, but that house felt very small, lonely and foreign today.
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
I was feeling pretty down, and having a bit of a pity party.
I really HATE how darn emotional I get every month. I know what it is, I know it will come, but I don't know how to get rid of it.
Anyway, I had a very nice chat with Slowly and just interacting with someone cheered me up.
Not really anything that was said, just her being there for a bit.
I need to just be appreciative of the time I did have this house I like and not so much focus on being sad at leaving it.
It would have been easier if mom were more accepting of where I am probably going to be living, but I am the one that has to deal with that situation and not her. I agree it isn't what I really want, but neither did I want to be way out to make a long drive in the winter. I don't really like driving in the winter and don't want to have to run home take care of the kids and then get back out to go to C's tax office in the dead of winter. So I think of my two options I made the better choice, now to adjust to it.
Pam
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
Betsey 
