The Home Inspection
Immediately after meeting with our wedding DJ, we headed over to our “new” house (which is currently in escrow and should close at the end of the month). It was time to meet with a home inspector, who had been reviewing the structure for a few hours prior. Even with newer builds, you’re crazy to complete the transaction without a full home inspection – and you’d be lucky to find a home inspector who is half as detail-oriented as ours was.
He pointed out a few things that needed to be addressed in the short-term, but nothing was sending up red flags. I was more impressed with what the home inspector gave us at the end of our meeting: a “Homeowner’s Handbook” (expanded edition, including information on earthquake safety). It came wrapped inside a binder, along with a general guide for our impending inspection report.
I don’t know if I’ll ever read or retain all of the information contained inside the inspection kit, but it’s nice to know that it’s here for future perusal. There’s even a tab dedicated to the life expectancy for general products, items, and materials in the average home.
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SocioBiblog
June 16th, 2007
at 10:23am
Stan “the Man” Mackey (Voted the best real estate agent in Seattle) has a few more bits of info for all homeowners: I hope you are doing well and enjoying your new home… Related Content:The Home InspectionAdSense for the SysTrayXP Home Domain Fix (Inbox)House HuntingHome Improvement ToolsHow Not to Recover Data from a Vista BackupHome AliveHome Again, Home AgainCoffee!Thanks, Desmond
bloggingseattle
November 20th, 2006
at 8:03pm
being able to find just the right one, decided to wait a year. As things turned out in fact, the time for buying a home here in Seattle didn’t happen till the present, a month before their upcoming wedding no less, and having just made it throughThe Inspection I’m happy to say this young couple will have an extremely beautiful home to move into in the next couple weeks. Thank you, Robert & Maryam for the referring of Ponzi & Chris (the beauty & the geek…blogging podcasters extraordinaire) back those two
Uncle Ted
November 10th, 2006
at 7:58pm
So where’s it at? All us locals are itchin’ to know if yer gonna be our new neighbor.
Ernest J Gainey III
November 12th, 2006
at 12:09pm
Chris, keep the manual, you’ll find many uses for it in the future. It should also have a section about pricing for different contract work you may want in the future. I had one completed when I built my home, it provided leverage to get things fixed that the builder felt didn’t need to be done.
Andrew Leyden
November 13th, 2006
at 7:16am
One thing I wish our inspector had done was a ‘black light’ search for water damage. You may want to ask (if it is an older house) if he a similar capability.
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