Home Inspection Reports & Buying a House Information
Getting a home inspection report is one of the most basic forms of documentation in the transaction. However, there are many things in buying a house where the devil is in the details.
How do you find the best cost for home inspection companies and are there licenses and regulations for these companies? We would have to address this state by state but the first criteria probably will be in their costs and reviews! You will want to make a home buyer checklist and add the home inspection report to it.
You can look on Yelp, Google+ pages and other local review websites and get a pretty quick idea of who is low cost and the best locally. Ideally you want a home inspection company or individual that has been in business for quite awhile. Don’t automatically dismiss the corporate ones or the most obvious.
Recently, I reluctantly had my taxes done at H & R Block because I was running late. However, I had the best tax assessment experience I ever had with a top notch expert (the manager). The point is, there is a home inspection expert out there you might connect with. In my own personal experience, if you connect with someone you are going to get pretty good service whoever they are. In this if you get the best rated home inspection company still make sure you connect. If you are a first time home buyer ask all the questions you need but don’t be a nuisance. The idea here is to let someone do their job and then get them to go the extra mile in making them connect with you.
The home inspection report may reveal a lot of issues in the property that the owner has gone over with you. What the inspector might reveal to you is his personal opinion on “things that might go wrong soon”. This is like buying a car that is running great when you are on the freeway with the seller gunning it.
The next thing you know while driving it home is the the air conditioner AND the radio just broke! This actually did happen to me by the way so now I try to buy with “extreme skepticism and caution” Again without belaboring the point is, get the best home inspection report you can and try to edge out any other “hunches or feelings” the inspector gets. It may be going against what is in the report or even the inspection company policy, but the guy on the ground has probably seen thousands of homes.