All Forum Posts by: Timothy G Dunson

Good morning all,

I recently bought and renovated a house. With that renovation came a new air conditioner and insulation in the attic to help ensure the AC would work properly. In all I spent 11k on it 7 for the insulation and 4 for the new AC unit.

Since then I've had numerous problems with the unit not working well or at all. I've had it serviced for a frozen coil twice, the overflow has turned it off multiple times and in general will not keep the house below 78° during the day. I feel like I paid enough money for it to work flawlessly year around but has been nothing but problems which is really inconvenient because I run the unit as an Airbnb. Also installed a Google nest so the client's can't turn the air too low.

My question is what can I do with the contractor that installed the unit? At this point I either want a new unit or someone else to do another install because the this one is not doing the job I expected when I paid $11000+.

Thanks for the input as always BP!

-Graham

 If I assume 144 sqft at $165 a sqft that's about 24k. So half would be 12k. I'm going to ask for 12k price reduction, or 12k credit or them to get the room permitted by the city. Do you think that's reasonable? Worst they can say is no right? Realtor wasn't much help he said at first "they wouldn't need to get a permit for that". And "it shouldn't affect the appraisal". I said "if you don't think it'll affect the appraisal then I won't worry about it". Then he back tracked a little and  said "I don't know if that will affect the appraisal" and "all the comps will probably be for 2/2 per side". 

 My bad Bruce. You already answered that.

 What advice do you have for me? Since you've delt with this extensively

 At some point the dining room was walled off and turned into a bedroom. Wouldn't you have to get a permit for that? I don't know how anything works. I just assumed you did for tax purposes.y inspection hasn't come back yet so I don't know if it's up to code or not but it has a closet and window.

 My realtor said 2 things. 1 he doesn't believe it will affect the appraisal. 2 they may not have needed to pull a permit to do it. I don't know if I believe either of those things though. My worry is it appraises low and I have to cover the difference because there is no appraisal contingency. Or lose my earnest money. I'd like to negotiate during the inspection period because I do have a inspection contingency

Hey bp,

I made an offer on a 5/4 duplex. 3/2 in one unit and 2/2 in the other. 2270 sqft. I got my offer accepted for 375000 but the seller wanted not appraisal contingency. 

i just found out that the 3rd bedroom on the 3/2 side is actually the dining room converted to a bedroom with no permit. The tax records still say it's 4/4 house. My worry is that it's not going to appraise because I believe it's priced as a 5/4 and the appraiser is going to appraise it at a 4/4 and I'm going to have to come out of pocket to make up the difference. Do you guys think it will appraise the same?

If not I was thinking about asking for one of the 4:

25k discount 375k- 350k

10k credit

Get the bedroom permitted

Add the appraisal contingency back

Are these reasonable? Am I overreacting? Is there anything else I could do? Gimme your thoughts!

 So it's not exactly an addition. They took the dining room in one of the units and turned it into a third bedroom. Are you saying still apply that rule of thumb?

 That would be put into seller disclosures right? And they didn't have any. So that would answer that question right?

Thanks for the advice! Definitely doing exactly that. 

Hey everyone,

im under contract on a 5/4 duplex. I just found out that they turned the dinning room into a 5th bedroom in one of the units. The house is for sale as is. It seems to be priced as a 5/4 and not a 4/4. The seller didn't mention an unpermitted bedroom in the seller's disclosures. 

My question is. What should I do? Ask them to get it permitted? Ask for a credit? Ask them to change it back to a 4/4? Ask for a price reduction? Or just pull out of the deal?