Home Inspections

Whenever you run across a home that you really like and you're thinking about buying, it wouldn't be a bad idea to ask the homeowners if they've had the house inspected. If they have had the house inspected, ask to see the home inspection report.

Now this is where things get tricky, was the home inspector a friend of theirs? You're going to find this hard to believe, but every once in a while, yeah that's right every once in a while the home seller could be hiding something. For the most part, most people are honest and sincere, but those aren't the people we need to worry about.

For those people who aren't very honest, the house inspection report that you're looking at, might not have everything in it. That's why most home buyers hire their own home inspector to do an additional home inspection.

Now what if I could tell you a way where you could save about $380, by using a home inspection checklist, that's right, now I got your attention. Most home inspectors charge between 300 and $600 for a home inspector to provide you with a home inspection report.

You could use home inspection checklists on every single house that you've visited, without hiring a home inspector. You could actually do your own home inspections and if you didn't feel comfortable and you found a home that you really liked, use the home inspection checklists and then hire a home inspector and compare notes.

You can have the best of both worlds. When hiring professionals, make sure that you check their references or face the consequences in the future by dealing with problems that you can't even imagine or could it ever even imagine. I'm talking about damage and repair problems that you're going to be responsible for in the future after you purchase the home or problems that you will deal with, by hiring other contractors to make the necessary repairs.

What's the point, you need to make sure that you only hire qualified people in this starts with your inspectors. I would like to say something else about problems that you should think about, before purchasing your house. Having a checklist can make all the difference in the world in the future so why wouldn't you want to prepare yourself for any problems, repairs or difficulties, before you actually purchased the house. Just something to think about and I mean you really need to think about it.