Saved by a Second (now Fourth) Opinion

Saturday morning, a more mature and less randy engineer came and inspected our property and said what we already knew...'The proverbial @#*! house' is what we have here. Fortunately, this engineer has been around about five to six times as many years as the young man who scared most of the other occupants off the property. It was a very close call, but had we not acted with some sort of resistance, we could now be paying mortgages on a spot reduced to rubble with nowhere to live for two to five years...WOW...it pays to be older and a bit fiesty! All is well for the moment...no red stickers and no action to drop the building. Nature may have something further to say, but for now, the cracked walls are as solid as they come.