Must.... Own....property....

Bunk said:
That was our thinking too.

Followed up with the engineer, asked for a bit more info.

IT. WAS. A. TYPO. HE. OMITTED. THE. WORD. NO.

Equal parts hugely releived and annoyed. A very good thing we kept our powder dry and didn't pull out right away. Still on, m8s.
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What an absolute gobshite. I’d be a little bit concerned now if I were you about the competence of this so called engineer.
 
Bunk said:
That was our thinking too.

Followed up with the engineer, asked for a bit more info.

IT. WAS. A. TYPO. HE. OMITTED. THE. WORD. NO.

Equal parts hugely releived and annoyed. A very good thing we kept our powder dry and didn't pull out right away. Still on, m8s.
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Bunk, glad for you.. these things are always roller coasters!

Dont read into that one way or the other. Those reports are a standard format that gets rehashed for property after property. Its very common to get an incorrect address from a previous house, a note from another house, or typos like you have discovered. To be honest the reports are a handy once over that gives a gut instinct about the property since they are visual only, they would pick up something like subsidence or structural cracking, but will miss a lot of the smaller stuff so they are useful but only to a point which is what they are intended for at this stage of things.

The chat you had with the engineer about the property will have been more valuable thatn the report TBH as it will have been less formulaic and more opinionated. Best of luck with it.
 
Happyhonkaman said:
The chat you had with the engineer about the property will have been more valuable thatn the report TBH as it will have been less formulaic and more opinionated. Best of luck with it.
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This is why I was so surprised by the initial report, he was making loads of positive noises while we were chatting after he surveyed the house. Anyway, no harm, no foul. The ball is still rolling, thankfully.
 
Drucker said:
Glorified trailer park. Enjoy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5931261
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Most American houses are timber frame with felt shingles just like your garden shed. A veneer of brick, stone,timber cladding or stucco plaster on the outside these vast energy sapping behemoths.

Every time there is a natural disaster in the U.S.A. these buildings cannot survive hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, wildfires and floods etc and they have all their electric cables etc on poles/masts on the streets. Their power and data systems are backward and enormous suburbs where you have to drive miles for even the most basic services.
Building in floodplains, deserts, forested hills in earthquake zones and swamps leads to frequent disasters.

The U.S. is a modern country in parts with terrible backward systems and ideas.
 

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