First time homebuyer foundation questions

[KPolwort]

Hello everyone!

I'm looking to buy a house in Colorado and recently viewed one with a questionable foundation. We haven't put in an offer I'm just looking for any advice or guidance anyone can offer based on the pictures. It's a 1910 Adobe home and we found this in the crawlspace. Looks like alot of shims and questionable things going on. If it's going to be a crazy expense to get it done right we would likely pass on putting in an offer. It's our first time so we want to cover all our bases. Thank you!

[Bill Kibbel]

I'm looking at little photos on my phone and there's a lot of important stuff not shown.  I'll just say that my first reaction to each photo was on audible "ouch".

[Les]

of course I can't see everything I need to see in the photos.  I'm with Bill Kibbel.  I am know as one of the most "optimistic" inspectors around and I would advise my kid to walk away based on these photos.  sorry to be late to the conversation. 

[cedricwill225]

On 4/8/2025 at 10:09 PM, KPolwort said:

Hello everyone!

I'm looking to buy a house in Colorado and recently viewed one with a questionable foundation. We haven't put in an offer I'm just looking for any advice or guidance anyone can offer based on the pictures. It's a 1910 Adobe home and we found this in the crawlspace. Looks like alot of shims and questionable things going on. If it's going to be a crazy expense to get it done right we would likely pass on putting in an offer. It's our first time so we want to cover all our bases. Thank you!

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I was in the same situation last year while house hunting and came across a similar early 1900s home with shims and questionable fixes in the crawlspace. It looked “okay” at first, but my friend who was a former inspector at https://fsginspections.com/ he said the same thing: walk away. One even told me, “You’d be buying a project, not a home.”

im with bill and les, its a red flag stay away from it. I was in the same situation last year while house hunting and came across a similar early 1900s home with shims and questionable fixes in the crawlspace. It looked “okay” at first, but every inspector I talked to said the same thing: walk away. One even told me, “You’d be buying a project, not a home.”

don't worry there will be better options without so much risk.

Edited April 16 by cedricwill225