I've been telecommuting to NYC and LA for 25 years now from the midwest.

If someone would have said something like that I'd have laughed at them.

I would never work at a place that offers salary based cost of living in the location I live.

If you're planning on keeping the shingles you have to be very gentle with them. Even just cleaning off the shingles, its going to mess them up. Its just that they'll be messed up more, faster, by leaving the organic material up there.

Anything you try to do besides gently cleaning them off in an attempt to make them last longer will just make them last that much less because it will disturb them too much.

Theres probably one at a nearby library!

My guess is you're mistaken about where this appraisal came from.

An appraisal done by the seller would not end up in your lender's hands.

Even though you waived appraisal, your lender would still require one. They're the ones buying the house, they're not going to skip checking out the house just because you made an offer that wasn't contingent on a check of the property.

I develop ecommerce and data software.

I'm pushing 50, so as a boy I remember mechanical cash registers and watched them become more and more electronic.

For me the internet is a cash register, or a component of a cash register, and I add features to it.

Ah, yeah I didn't look very hard at the picture and thought this was a basement.

Its far from a given that the interior drainage already exists. You'd know if it does because there will be a sump pump.

Joke comment, but you can use something similar to Charlie's technique for counting gas they sell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOJXRs_V5Cw

Sure, I'm not saying he's anti-glove or anything, he wears them when almost any sane person would wear them.

Its times like this though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uriyTlXVtBg&t=390s

Changing an ATV muffler.

Now, I know that many, many people would do this without gloves.

But my knuckles would be banged to hell and I'd have scratches all over my hands and arms if I did that job without gloves.

I worked at my dad's HVAC company as a teenager, then a factory from 18-23, and then went to college and have sat in front of a computer for the last 20 years. A couple years ago I bought some property that requires about 15-30 hours of labor a week.

Thats all to say that just recently I've decided that part of dressing for working is putting on gloves. I watch a lot of Andrew Camarata videos and similar for inspiration. I don't understand how that guy's hands aren't chewed to bits from doing the stuff he does with no gloves. I know a lot of it is skill, but still, he must have hand-calluses like baseball mitts or something.