As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, my girlfriend and I are in the process of house hunting. We’ve had our ups and downs. We’ve found some exciting and promising properties. Yet none have been the perfect match.
We’ve been researching some houses on the near east side, in order to give ourselves more space than a condo can provide, due to all of the medical equipment I have, and my general need for space. We had found one promising house. It had a ramp, it had a walk-in shower (that was nearly a roll-in shower. It even had widened doorways.
All sounding too good to be true? Well, it was. The house is a foreclosure property. It’s been vacant for roughly a year. And while improvements and repairs have been done to it, we still would have to make several modifications, and hoped to expand the bathroom space, which was frankly a bit tight, but much better than all of the other houses and properties we’ve looked at. And the asking price was already pressing the upper end of our budget.
We still would have considered the house, but in between the week we first viewed it, and our followup visit, a large series of mold patches had grown in the basement, causing concern of how many more problems would be found throughout the house.
For now, we’re pressing on. We’re toying with the idea of building, or putting an addition on to a cheaper house that would be built to my accessibility needs.
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