When you start shopping for a new home, you may start picturing yourself living there, figuring out where you’d put your furniture, or how you’d want to start renovating.
However, you may want to wait before investing emotionally, as you never know what’s lying beneath the surface of any given home.
Here are some of the top reasons why you should never skip out on a home inspection:
1. Home inspections can reveal critical information about the condition of a home and its systems. This makes the buyer aware of what costs, repairs, and maintenance the home may require immediately, and over time.
2. For safety purposes, a home inspection can detect safety issues like radon, carbon monoxide, and mold, which all homes should be tested for.
3. It can reveal whether rooms, altered garages, or basements were completed without a proper permit, or did not follow code.
4. Home inspections are even more critical if you are buying an "as-is" foreclosed property or short sale.
5. A home inspection report presents an opportunity to ask for repairs and/or request a price reduction or credit from the seller.
6. It can diagnose the current condition of the structure itself and tell you how long finishes have been in the home.
7. Some insurance companies will not insure a home if certain conditions are found or without the presence of inspection certifications.
It is your responsibility to understand as many details as you can about the property you may soon call home. Home inspections reveal the inner workings of the property. Make sure you don't skip this.
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