About an inch from the wall on both sides throughout the majority of the house the carpet was green, moldy green.

The one thing I have learned over the years, is that once you give an inch with a tenant a mile is taken and you can't "change your mind later".

.:... one thing on my list is replacing the floor tile on a small stairway landing, the inspector said it probably has asbestos in it but we wouldn't know for sure until it has been replaced. ...The "rule of thumb" is: if floor tile is 9 inch by 9 inch, then it is likely to have asbestos (either in the tile itself or in the adhesive that attaches the tile to the subfloor).

For someone to have done all that, they would have changed the height of the doorways.... if you take off the 1/2 or 1/4 plywood, then 1/2 inch carpet, you are looking at atleast an inch difference, there's going to be crack under the door.

Imagine the roof with twice as much mold.....then spread that around on every inch of the interior.

Vikram,In PA, we use a title agent, and can either go to the title company's office (cheaper to do), or have the notary come visit you (that was nice when we had 12 inches of snow on a closing I had in Jan 2010).Different practices for different locations (states in the USA).

They only open 90 degrees, and most of them need to be bored into the wood, so it's not as easy to simply move the hinge down half an inch.

Marie Poe, I haven't measure it out yet, but it looks like it slopes down about 2 inches over about 20 feet.

Jon Holdman I am going over all the Pre-closing inspections and it does not state that termites are there but it also says that it does go into walls if theres not 18 inches of clearance.

Do we continue, or do we tear it all out to the studs, or do we go over it with 1/4 inch sheet-rock, or do we skim-coat it?