Buying a home is a very important and expensive purchase in your life. Therefore, it is very important to find out as much as possible about the condition of the purchased home in order to avoid further expensive investments!
So a home inspector should be a must for all those, who don’t want any troubles to appear later in the house. A professional home inspection should include checking the surrounding area, structure, and all internal systems of the house, from the roof to the base of the house. These inspections are carried out by an independent and qualified professional. The purpose of the inspection is to visually inspect all accessible places in the house and draw up a written report on all faults found and asses the property’s value.
If you need a detailed study of suspicious areas, the inspector will advise you to contact highly specialized companies that are dealing with this issue. For example, if you suspect the existence of termites in the wooden supports of your home, your inspector will advise you to contact a company that removes insects from living quarters.
Buyers and sellers of real estate are advised to conduct a home inspection. It is clear why the inspection needs to be done by the buyers. And why does the seller need a home inspection? After all, after the inspection, you will know all the problems of your house, and most importantly, you must indicate them in the document that is transferred to the buyer.
Typically, a home inspection is carried out by the seller after successful negotiations when the purchase and sale contract has been signed. After all the time and effort spent looking for a serious buyer, after successful negotiations on the price, terms, and conditions of the transaction, it may fail due to serious shortcomings that arose during the inspection. In this turn of events, there are three options: the seller pays the repair costs, lowers the price of the house, or does not make any concessions, thereby losing the deal.
Thus, a home inspection gives buyers confidence and peace of mind that they will not have to pay huge sums of money in the near future to fix serious problems. And for the seller, a home inspection will help detect the existence of faults that are cheaper to fix by yourself, thereby increasing the value of your home!
Written by Bader Albader, market researcher.