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are a lot of obvious things that make a house less than ideal. A tiny
kitchen, dim lighting or dreadful wallpaper, for example. There are also a
million things that are more subtle, such as shallow cabinets, bad water
pressure or impossible parking.
Whenever I move into a new home, I am careful to avoid the problems I have already had to live with, but inevitably, I find a few new ones. |
In our last house, I think the place was haunted. Leasing this place, we knew to ask if it was haunted, but we got stung on another front: The faucet which controls cold water goes from tiny stream to fire hose. |
Despite the appearance of a continuous range of water pressures, there is no "medium" setting. Attempts to find locate a middle-speed are met with an unbelievable banging noise. Obviously, it isn't a deal-breaker, but I do wish I had spotted this problem before we signed the lease. Who knew we should have even checked? With that in mind, I'd like to build a list of things that can be wrong with your house. Particularly I'd like to hear about things that caught you off-guard. I'm collecting answers below. You can read what others have contributed so far, and I'll clean up and share the complete list in the near future. Thank you! |