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… an inspector shows up to check out your house and tells you that you have a lake in your side yard.

So today we were expecting the house inspector to come over at 3:30 and were a bit surprised when our doorbell rang promptly at 2:45. Only it was the termite inspector, not the house inspector. Hmmm, guess they forgot to tell us about that part. Oh well. Mr. Termite Guy says he will start outside so we go back to throwing dirty dishes in the dishwasher and sweeping up stray Cheerios. Ding-dong! Mr. Termite Guy is back and says “Did you know you have a lot of standing water over there on the side of your house?” Uhhh, not really what you want to hear when the home inspector is due to arrive in less than an hour. Mr. Termite Guy wasn’t kidding either. The area under our gate looked like a lake. At least 3 inches of standing water. To borrow Emily’s current favorite word: YIKES!

Fortunately for us the water was not coming from our house, but from our neighbor’s yard. However, that presented its own set of challenges since our neighbor is in a nursing home now. The water people told us to call the code compliance people, who told us to call the water people, who told us to call the gas/electricity people. And no one wanted to help or even try to contact any of the numbers they had on file for her. So, George cut off the water to their house and now our lake is just soggy grass. Hopefully we’ll find out tomorrow if the home inspector found any major problems that we get to fix.

Filed under: Adventures on May 1st, 2006