We recently went under contract for a house after a lengthy negotiation. The house has been sitting on the market for 35 days before we offered it. We had the inspection this past week, the inspector found quite a few issues. The biggest being standing water in the crawlspace, which was not easy to see the reason for.
The home was listed as a modular home, but the inspector and our agent have both seen signs that may be a manufactured house, even though it has the serial number for a modular house.
The trusses in the attic seem to be cut into four pieces, but unsure if that is normal for this modular home or another reason.
There are several damaged shingles or shingles with holes in them.
There is siding damage.
The back porch was not installed correctly and is missing joist hangers.
The front porch beams need to be reset as they have moved since installation.
Several windows need to be replaced due to broken seals.
There was also was issues with a lot of electrical wires with junction boxes in the attic being exposed and wires being damaged.
We’re kind of at a loss as to what to do because it seems like a lot of these issues will be money pits to fix and we’re already over what we probably should’ve reasonably went under contract for the house.
Our agent has already advised us but this all does seem worrying, just looking for some advice on if this is all normal because we don’t really wanna throw 15k into the house as soon as we move in. We’re going to ask the sellers to fix the majority of the problems or walk.
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