Purchasing Your Home
Purchasing Your Home – Tips for Buyers
Why you need a Home Inspection! Your new home purchase will most likely be the biggest investment that most families will make. Prior to committing to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the new home, be sure you know what you are getting into. Hire a competent home inspector to review the house and ensure there will be nasty surprises in your future home.
Why Choose Barrie Home Inspections
Your new home will be inspected by a Certified Building Code Official with the Ontario Building Officials Association who has inspected over 8,000 homes. A Free Thermal Imaging scan of home is included with every home inspection. This can help find Missing Insulation, Hidden Moisture and Electrical Hot Spots. As a Certified Master Inspector Roger has the Knowledge and Experience to provide his clients with Peace of Mind when purchasing a new home.
Call Roger today to discuss the different Types of Home Inspections and what will work best for you and your family.
Professional inspections are a thorough visual inspection of the house and property, taking as many as three hours. Inspectors come from an unbiased, third party organization which means that you can trust them to give their honest assessment of a home. It’s very important that you contact an inspector right away once a offer to purchase is accepted. Most Realtor’s include a “five day home inspection clause” which allows time for the home owner to arrange an inspection prior to signing “home inspection waiver”.
Many real estate experts will advise new home buyers to find their own home inspector. This allows you to discuss your inspection expectations prior to attending the home inspection. Although Realtor’s will typically refer a “Home Inspector”, you never really know what that relationship entails, and in this “dog eat dog” mentality to close the deal that some Realtor’s have, you might not be fairly represented.
Your Home Inspection report should be both comprehensive and detailed. Every deficiency in your home should be documented and a detailed explanation of required remediation if required. The “Barrie Home Inspector” includes from 80 to 120 pictures of most home inspections. Your report will have an “Overview of area” and a picture which depicts the deficiency. The detailed Summary at the end of the report gives the Home Owner a detailed list of items that require maintenance, repair or replacement.
The “Barrie Home Inspector” always recommends that you personally attend the Home Inspection and follow him around the entire house. This enables you to see the context of the deficiency in relationship to that particular houses systems and discuss the required action to correct. At the end of the inspection you will review all pictures of deficiencies and either discuss the action required or return to the site of the deficiency to review your options for correction. You will then be given access to an online report with a PDF copy of your report for your files.
Remember, an educated consumer is a smart consumer.
By Roger Frost
Barrie Home Inspections