I always – OK, not always but for the past 2 years for sure – wanted to have my own trees. Before that, I detested everything that had to do with nature and thought there was nothing better in the world than concrete.
And here are the trees that come with The Hedgehogs:
And here:
I wouldn’t mind owning these beautiful trees. There is a problem, though. The house inspector just found damage to the roof, and knowing our seller (who is a professor of Engineering, of all things), we fear he will not be amenable to taking care of the damage.
I’m not hugely optimistic right now about the future of this sale. >
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Those are some beautiful trees! But your seller would be an idiot not to make concessions over the roof issue. It’s going to come up on ANY inspection and be problem for the buyer–and those trees are only going to be in flower for a few weeks. Once they’ve gone to green they’ll be less of a selling point.
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I really don’t want to give up on the house and I hope he realizes that any buyer will have a problem with the roof. But he’s in Engineering and has already proven to be quite unbending.
There is wi-fi in the house and I used it to post photos of the trees. This means he’s paying for wi-fi in an empty house he’s not using. That is very silly.
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With our current house the inspection found there was a radon issue (it just comes with the lot, some lots have more some have less of radon in the ground). I went 50-50 with the seller to install a radon mitigation system (the real estate agent can help set up an escrow where both you and the seller put in the money and from it is the work on the issue paid). He might be willing to do something along these lines?
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It has become impossible to see your photos, since the bottom third of each one is immediately covered by an advertisement.
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Magnolia, in the first. I love magnolias, I just planted a Yellow River manolia this year. Will be a while before it gets to that size – although yours is not terribly big for a magnolia, certain varieties can get very large indeed. Hopefully it isn’t one of those because it looks quite close to the house.
Can’t see the shrubby thing in the foreground well enough to identify it.
The sevond looks like a prunus of some sort; there may be fruit of some sort later in the year.
Fingers crossed the vendor sees sense.
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