wow some good points guys, keeping all of these in mind
inspection was today and there were some minor stuff to do: kitchen sink is leaky, shower needs caulking, and furnace should be checked to make sure it's in good shape (owner to do all this before i move in fuc that shit)
a couple iffy things though:
1) poor roof/attic ventilation causing tons of roof ice, doesn't help that we had a weird winter so far but still. would need to open up the blocking above soffits so that air can flow better + maybe beef the insulation up. also would need to widen the attic access so that you can actually get in there
-basically this is like a $2000+ upgrade, or else get used to my eaves trough collapsing under weight of ice + snow and accelerated decay of roof shingles (roof was just re-done this fall tho)
2) the older half of the basement is a crawlspace and has zero access to it, a previous owner decided to just drywall that entire partition up...the engineer had no way to get in there to see what's what. considering it's part of the original house (1960's) there would be no way of telling if something was leaking or if anything has rotted out or if the plumbing is old etc. only good thing is you can see newer copper water pipe going into the crawlspace..
-basically a complete unknown that i have to suck up and deal with or not buy the house
right now it's looking like i'm still going ahead with it, prepare for the worst when i open up that crawlspace but yolo