Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What's wrong with this house?

No doubt.

My comment was directed at the statement that WA as a whole, is rainy.

The state, I believe, is nearly 30% desert by moisture definition.

Looking at the pictures (FWIW), it looks like it has asbestos siding, water damage in the kitchen, 2 wire receps in the kitchen (ie, no ground), it has exposed 12/2 NM-B (ie, Romex)in the kitchen (dishwasher?) that is "floating" which could be indicative that any of the "recent improvements" were done half @$$. The age would also imply a good chance of their being knob and tube wiring hidden in the house. Plumbing could very well be cast iron and copper, with lead solder. Septic line could also be made out of cardboard if it was installed in the 50-60's.

Having recently owned and sold an early 1900's house, that I fixed up myself, I really am enjoying renting for right now.....

Map of he rain shadow. http://www.olympicrainshadow.com/olympicrainshadowmap.html

I am between Port Townsend and Quilcine at the tip of the bay off 101.

Very interesting Map Scott, thanks. I knew your area had less rain and have always wondered why. Does anyone really know?

Taxwise, WA isn't a great place to retire. They have no income tax so you don't realize a drop when your income goes down and you get the double exemption. They do have a 9% sales tax and I heard that car tags are going up again.

Wet-wise, the rain quits as soon as you cross the Cascades. After leaving Seattle, you'd think Ellensburg was in a different world. The entire middle 3d of the state is hot and dry. It greens up a bit when you're near the Idaho border and Spokane can get hammered with snow.

Then there's WA politics....

Yep, we get about a third of Seattle.

This is why. http://www.olympicrainshadow.com/rainshadoweffect.html

Call the assessors office, they might give you some insight. The moss growing on the roof might not be a good thing, at least that's what it looks like.

Silverlake is shown to have 55 inches/yr avg. rainfall.

That algae/moss on the roof didn't get there from being hot and dry..

Thats funny, I live in the Kittitas Valley and get 22"/year. You must be out in the pocket.

Somewhere in the area north of White Salmon, far enough north to escape the tourons. Seems like it might be east enough to miss most of the rain but not to far from the Columbia and the Ocean. Beautiful area when I looked around some, would like to spend time there and look it over more.
I think the distance to the ocean is my biggest complaint with Idaho.

55 to 60 sounds about right for there.

You've definitely got that right Close to Mt St Helens, good deer & Elk populations within driving distance. Good Steelhead and Salmon fishing in the rivers as well as trout in both the rivers and surounding lakes. Only about a two hour drive to Portland for big ticket items as there's no State Sales Tax in Oregon.

Silver Lake has some big Bass.

Badger pocket?

Whose in the windows upstairs, or is it my eyes deceiving me ?

What happened in the house that might make it hard to sell ?

It's full of dead bats to start with. A friend of my wife went through it. Apparently they fumigated it but didn't clean up the carnage. She said there were even a couple on the kitchen counter. Can you imagine the smell?

Even though I do spend a fair amount of time in the Pocket I actually live near Kittitas.

Check Kittitas weather here

Either Norman Bates or Chuckie.

Home inspection are not fool proof. They are almost robbery. I had a friend that purchased a 500,000 dollar home in Colorado. Within 3 months they were having water problems with the home. Seems the landscape had drained the water into the home. No sign at the time of buying and never disclosed but now he has about 100,000 in landscaping and some more cost with cleaning up home with wet drywall, mold ect. I hope your luck is better than his?

great map Scott how many miles --minutes from Port Angeles
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