On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 3:37:40 PM UTC-5, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 7/15/2017 7:48 PM, Janet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > says...
> >> Scottish house-buying is (or was, when we bought ours) much more
> >> straight-forward than English or US house-buying.
> >
> > But we still employ surveyors, lawyers and estate agents.
> >
> We just had a lawyer and a surveyor.
> In the US, we had an estate agent, a lawyer, a surveyor, and one or two
> others which I can't remember at the moment - it was a long time ago. (I
> think I remember a termite inspection.)

I had a comprehensive $750 building inspection down before we agreed on a price. But my landlord did not appear to be very flexible about his initial offer of $110,000 and I only got him down to $108,000 cash, basically as is.. So I KNOW ann the stuff that needs work. I knew most of what my inspector found too! I have no delusions about this place and the work it needs. But I'm into it too far to quit now! And it's gonna be VERY cool and when I get it all done could be worth as much as maybe $200,000 after restoration!

John Kuthe...