How desperate is it on houses when they are moved? Looking to buy house and just recently found out it be not...
Looking to buy house and just recently found out it be not built on the location and was purchased and moved to the current location, i have hear this is bad on the houses... whats your opinions?
Answers: There are a couple of different ways of looking at it. First, if it survived the move it must be a pretty correct structure. Second, it has been through house hell. It stands to apology that if you move something that is not built or intended to be moved there will be issues. Think of adjectives the fasteners that will have be stressed and loosened. Nails, screws etc are made to go within and stay. When you move them they will never be as tight as they once were. Will the wall and floors be plumb and square? I am by no means an expert on this subject but I would unquestionably hire a hot running building inspector to go over the structure with a fine toothed comb. You don't want to find problems a few years down the road. I wouldn't wane to buy a building that had been moved but I would clear attention. Maybe the most important thing is to read the contract. Who is going to fix problems a couple of years down the road? Just some thoughts. Good luck.
It can be a problem contained by two ways. As renpen so rightly says, a house will never be quite what it be once it's moved. Not only can everything shift out of plumb, but often (at lowest possible where I live) houses about to be moved are regularly targeted by thieves that break in the later night and steal everything they can pry off or unscrew - vintage trim, crystal doorknobs, brass cupboard door handle and hinges, and the like. The company that moved it and sell it then has to shift through and replace everything that was stolen, and usually they do it using the cheapest replacements they can find. These cheap replacements might look nice but they'll never last as powerfully as the originals would have.
Another problem is that (again, at most minuscule where I live) the overwhelming majority of houses that are moved are post-war small ranch-style starter homes. They weren't built well to start bad with; in the one I owned, in attendance wasn't a plumb wall or a 90 degree angle to start off near, and everything was just for a moment off otherwise - the shower was surrounded by crooked, the tub wasn't put in straight, the ceiling lamps weren't centered, the floors bank at wild angles, etc. They require a lot of repairs because they're 60 years aged and, since nothing in them is standard, the cost to replace anything can be high than you expect. In my old house the doors were adjectives either 26 or 29 inches wide - furniture at the present time is built based on the idea that everyone have a door at least 30 inches wide.