Setback with the Setback

So I think I mentioned yesterday that we were in the middle of moving hell. We got cc'd yesterday on a letter from my attorney to the seller's attorney that there was a "setback." Apparently, the house we are buying violates the setback line in terms of how close it is to our neighbors property by 1 foot in 2 places. I just got off the phone with my attorney asking what that meant and basically what he told me is that there is a chance that someone from the town can come over and make up chop a foot off the house!! He didn't seem to think this was a big deal, but I don't know, I'm kinda thinking we might actually NEED that foot to keep the house intact, no? Hopefully, they have gotten a variance from the town, or the house is grandfathered, or some other sort of "get out of chopping off the house free" card. We are supposed to close in a mere 5 weeks.

The flip side of the deal is that we are still waiting for the inspection report from our house. I want to see what the buyer is going to ask from us. Since part of the negotiation was a firm statmeent from him that he was NOT going to ask for anything during the process (in fact, he was not going to get an inspection at all, but was told that he could not get a mortgage without it), I am practicing my David Spade imitation - "no, marco pol-no, ready set no" etc. Still, the guy that inspected the house, who incidentally is the exact same guy that inpected the house when we bought it 7 years ago did make some pretty big observations, none of which I believe is accurate, BTW. He claimed that there was mold in the attic for example because there is no ventilation up there. Well, I am very allergic to mold and spent 2 hours up there going through all our belongings and had no problems whatsoever. Must have been the THREE vents up there that he said didn't exist. We'll see how that goes. Oh yeah, and did I mention the not quite legal because we didn't get the permit because when we went to apply for it the town wouldn't accept our drawings and wanted us to get architechtural drawings that there was no way we were going to do deck that we built? I don't know what the setback line is for my area but I'm hoping that it won't be a problem. I guess we'll see soon enough.

Ok, now I am going to go home for lunch and pack a box or so. I love that I work 4 miles from home. I am taking advantage of that as much as I can for the next 5 weeks. Then I will live about 9 miles from work. Oh, the hardship.