Why to Home - Inspect - Your - Gadgets
March 20th, 2008 categories: Buyers, For Homeowners
Two weeks ago I wrote an article called The Secret To Saving Yourself From A Dying Home where I talked about purchasing a home warrant when buying your home. At that time I didn’t talk much about the essentials of a home inspection.
When you write an offer on a re-sale home in VA, you have the option of conducting a home inspection to check out the house beyond the appearance. Depending on the size of the home you are looking to pay $250 and UP. This is not something that you want to overlook or just bring in your buddy who knows housing well. Overlooking an issue could cost you A LOT OF MONEY in the long run if not addressed. The state views this as such an issue that there are forms you may have to sign if you decide against having the inspection. In most cases you can actually decide to not buy the home if you find things that scare the mess out of you, or the seller refuses to fix them.
During a standard home inspection, your inspector will go through your home, looking over all of the electrical issues, plumbing, appliances, outlets, roof, windows, smoke detectors, etc… This does not mean that if the roof appears old or if there is a ding in the wall that you can force the seller to address it.
The worst thing that I see taking place after a home inspection in this market is that buyers who have already picked the sellers pockets during the negotiations come back and seek to get thousands of dollars more of work done for issues that are not hazardous to the home but the seller simply wants fixed like a wood piece on a garden wall leaning, or to have the whole side of a 1950’s house repainted.
Don’t get me wrong, it is ok to ask for issues to be addressed that cost a lot of money. However, I am referring to minor issues that have nothing to do with the structure of the home, appliances, heating, cooling, electric, plumbing, etc. It can simply become an issue of taking advantage of people at a certain point.
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