What is the difference between an appraisal and a home inspection? Buying a home has many steps, and sometimes the process can be confusing. Two potential steps in a real estate contract can be an appraisal and a home inspection. (Both an appraisal and a home inspection are addressed in a real estate contract in [...]
Eight things your home inspector can't tell you comes from a post from HouseLogic, a site from the National Association of REALTORS. Thank you, HouseLogic, for your post! Here is their list, changed with my adjustments, thoughts and personalized details. They won't tell you if they would buy the house. They really aren't allowed to, [...]
A home inspection report is not a required repair list comes from an opinion post by Barry Stone in The Oaklahoman. People write into Barry and ask for advice, and his answer to this one really spoke to me, so I wanted to share. The person writing into Barry says that they had a home [...]
What is done in a home inspection? What is covered? A home inspection, usually, is a VISUAL inspection of a property, running water & systems when they can be run. What does that mean? It means that the inspector can't break through walls, can't take things off or apart, or ruin the house in any [...]