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   ANDY_C._CLIFFORD | Feb 27, 2002 08:48pm | #1

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   HAd a week to sell my house that I've been working on non stop for over three years in order to buy a new project I just found. OK, so I'm just about done (but not quite) and see a house near me thats 320 years old on two acres. Way high end hood on Long Island in NY. Best school district in the country which is the reason I need to stay here. OK fine, so I find this incredably cool house in need of work on two acres. Use to be a farm (what wasnt back then). Anyway the jist of my story is I found a real possible buyer for my house. I had an accepted offer on the 320 year old crib I wanted for my family. Fine....the people that wanted my house bring their home inspector to look my house over for them before they go into contract. Inspector is a young Asian guy in his mid thirties I'd say. Gets here a half hour late then first thing he asks is if I have a ladder he can use to get up on my roof...Not cool...bring your own tools dude. I set him up a thirty foot ladder against my better judgement but didnt want to act as though I was hiding anything.... and even foot it for the jerk (mistake..lol).....(guess you can tell I aint happy)...just wait. He goes up and I
   follow.....duh.....I "personally" did the torch down between the two gambrel roofs with rubber and the gambrels with architectual fiberglass roofing shingles( a good 40 sq roof job)(as well as all of the rest of the work on the house from demo to framing to scuffed painting)... After we go down he tells the potential buyers I dont know my stuff cause he found THREE....I said THREE....(3) nail holes un-caulked with tar..(where one pump jack bracket was)...Then after six hours says that an I-beam thats like twenty something feet long has no lolly column under it....that I was cutting costs....WOW......All he had to do was open my tool room door and there it was.......Da Lolly column, right behind the door.....This guy spent over SIX (6) hours in my house picking at so many little things like scuff paint marks and why havent I touched them up.....The KICKER here is.....now get this one...tell me if its me.....wow.....says I never installed an "interior" automatic carbonmonoxide garage door opener.......asked me if I was going to.....I said yeh after I install the sky hooks to hold the roof up cause the three nail holes would probably detract from the
   integrity of
   my
   house
   ....Has anyone heard of such a thing as common place or even in existance at all? An automatic INTERIOR (lets kill the people in the house too) carbonmonixide door opener????? I never even heard of that and even if there is such a thing why bring up things that have nothing to do with anything? Grrrrr,,,,Anyway....I lost the sale cause this moron scared the people so bad......You should have heard the rest of the unfounded complaints.....and six hours????I was about to charge them rent. Had to be paid by the hour I'm guessing.......Sorry bout my rant....just depressed,,, wahhhhhhhhhhh....ever hear of such nonsense??? Wahhhhhh...on my knees pounding my callosed fists on the limestone/granite floors next to the oak ones that I did alone....wahhhhhh