Response to Would it be worth it?

Hi Jan, If the price is really good it might pay to have a licensed home inspector look at it. They charge about $300. I think but I'm not positive about that. The thing is, they tell you everything about a place. They are very thorough. They can point out problems you wouldn't have noticed and tell you if the problems you noticed are serious or cosmetic. Then you can decide if you want to deal with them. As far as the well is concerned, we lived with 2gpm for 9 years but we had no children. I could run one washer load, one dishwasher load, and we could take showers plus the regular cooking and flushing use. Well-watering the garden was out of the question. 20 minutes of running the pump and the well was dry for a while. Our solution was rain collection, collecting well water in 50 gal. barrels and mulch, mulch, mulch. Before we rented the place out we had the well deepened another 40 feet to 220. It helped a lot and the people who have been there for the last 6 months, a family of four, have had no problems. If you do buy the place and have the well deepened, make sure the driller flushes the well completely BEFORE you start running water into the pipes. We had to take every shut-off valve apart several times to clean out debris that restricted the flow of water. It sounds like the kind of place any Countrysider would love- good luck.

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