All Forum Posts by: Dan Stewart

My house cleaner backed out on me yesterday and I have a week to find another one before I head to work for 4 months. Anyone have a trust worthy and reliable house cleaner in the Frankfort/Traverse city area. Must be able to clean house 1 - 3 times per week depending on rentals. I need 2 years experience and references. Please message me on here or call me at 248-two two9 - 7two two 6.

Thank you

Unfortunately I did not getit in writing. 

I need to remember this. I am way to nice. 

and Fyi, im only asking questions. I already agreed i would pay the 4500 dollars that they would not fix out of pocket. I was not expecting another grand. This is not just about a door wall.

In the closing document, there was a agreement of a final walk through for myself. This is when I discovered that the past owner lied and hid things to make the house look better. It was brought up immediately.

Their broker is actually blaming my real estate agent for not having the bed moved. Inspector did everything he could.

During the inspector visit is when I discovered the door issue. I specifically asked them about the door since we could not moved the bed. They told me it worked fine. I asked this question before the house was bought.  

There is a whole lot of more issues but that was the long story. I was aware of the otger stuff.

Hey Guys,

After researching real estate for a few years now I finally I bought my first home. Its going to work great because I am going to use it as a vacation rental while I work away from home and use it the rest of the year. I believe its in a really good area to vacation since I visit here for fun. If all does well, I will make it a year around vacation rental since it’s in a solid area to vacation.

Unfortunately I am having issues with the last homeowner. Long story short, in the inspection period, I noticed that the the bed was against the wall during the pictures in the master bedroom for the internet. When I showed up the bed had been moved in front of the glass door wall. The inspectors were not allowed to move the bed. So I asked my real estate agent to ask the selling party why the bed was moved and if there was anything wrong with the glass door wall. They said the door worked perfectly fine.

When we wrote up the deal, we put 500 dollars into escrow in case there was issues between closing and when I moved in. We did it over the phone since I lived 4 hours away from the house.

After I moved in, I discovered that I was lied to about the door. The door is splitting at the bottom and also bulging. The door is caving into the seal and needs a ton of force to open. The door is not useable and needs to be replaced. This the reason why they put the bed in front of the glass door wall. After talking to contractors and my dad, who is also a contractor, we came up that it would cost between 750 and 900 dollars to replace. There was already around 4500 dollars worth of work. I was not expecting another grand. 

I also found my fence collapsing into the neighbors yard, a burnt couch and they decided to use my property as a trash pit between the last time I seen the property and when I moved in.

So after months of back and fourth between my agent, I finally got to talk to the sellers broker. He basically told me I was out of luck on the door wall because we did not ask the last home owners to move the bed. It didn’t matter that the seller lied to me about the door wall being broke. He told me I could take it to court if I would like but I would probably loose.

Does anyone know if this is true about the fact the last home owner hid evidence that the door was broken and lied to me that is worked fine? I was thinking I could get the 500 bucks to fix it since she did not disclose the truth about the door being broken.

Also, there was a chair attached to a structure attached to two trees. They took the chair but left me the structure between the two trees. Also, there was a structure in the back yard on a deck. Again, they took the structure but left me the deck in a wierd place.. I would have thought there were part of the house. Anyone know the rules on that??

Any help on these issues would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Hello,

Last night I was coming home from the traverse area and heard on the radio a commercial advertising something about contacting your representatives about vacation rentals. It sounded like some rep is trying to push a law through to stop vacation rentals. I only caught half of the advertisement. I might be missing something but was hoping to find more information. Searched the web but can't really find anything recent. 

Does anyone know anything about this?

Unfortuanlty I did. I would have loved to buy it and help my buddy out but the cost to get it to where I want would have blown my budget away.

@Max T. I have thought about adding. The problem is the wall that needs to be taken down is an addition that was not built correctly. You would have to raise the roof on the addition to make it work.