Making Sure the Home Sale Moves Forward...

The home sale is not going well...at all.  I am being told the buyer still wants out after signing the contract.  It's so frustrating.  A contract is a contract!!!

But I am doing all of my part.  And my part is making sure her requests on the Purchase Addendum are met.  Per my buyer's request, I had ten items to be completed after her home inspection.  If I completed those requests, then the contract was still binding.

So I am being absolutely meticulous to her requests.  Knowing she is having cold feet, I have to make absolutely sure that I meet all of her requests perfectly.  That was the plan from the get-go!

One of those requests was "Have the seller vent the bathroom fans to the exterior of the house."

So I headed to Menard's and grabbed some parts and headed up into the attic.  I'm young and limber, but the attic is just rough!  I have never been up in this part of the attic and was secretly hoping I would find a secret stash of bills, but no luck.  But I was pleasantly surprised to see nearly 18 inches of blown-in insulation!  This house had decent insulation, after all!  Nice!

But what that meant for me was a bit of trouble locating the bathroom exhaust fans, AND lung pain once I found them and had to crawl on the insulation to install these hoses.

I finally found the exhaust fans in the mess of insulation!

But it had to be done.  So I did it.

I took note that the bathroom fans that had been venting to the attic for the last 27 years exhibited no signs of moisture or mold.  It's so funny how home inspectors can find the craziest of items to fix!  Not that it shouldn't have been vented outside, but it just showed that it did no damage over the last quarter-century.  But it was her request.

Years of dust but no mold!

Working in the tiny crevice where the roof meets the soffit was difficult, and I tried to make sure I was resting on the studs as I laid my body down, but wow, that was a chore!  It didn't help that I had to take in a face full of insulation as I fed the vent hose out to the soffit.  But I did it.

I basically figured out where the bathrooms were in relation to outside (using a window as a reference), cut a hole into my soffit, fed up the vent hose, then went back into the attic, grabbed the vent hose, and hooked it up to the fan.  It wasn't particularly hard work, but it was difficult, if that makes sense.  As I told my brother, "It was easier than I thought it was going to be, and it was harder than I thought it was going to be."

The completed job.  Exhaust fans are now vented outside.

Hidden underneath the soffit.  No one will ever know.

I think the whole project took around an hour or so, so it went fairly well.  And now I should have a satisfied buyer.  I have met her requests.

The second home inspection is in two days with the closing scheduled for 8 days from now!  I'm hoping she sees that I did EVERYTHING she requested with professionals where required and excellent workmanship on those that didn't require a licensed professional.  This house has been fixed for YOU!