MyPAomeInspector.com
Our Mission: To provide unbiased, objective and thorough Home
Inspections for our clients, Buyers, Sellers and conscientious HomeOwners,
and to ensure that they have all the knowledge they need to make an
informed transaction, without regrets.
Inspections for our clients, Buyers, Sellers and conscientious HomeOwners,
and to ensure that they have all the knowledge they need to make an
informed transaction, without regrets.
Why an Independent Home Inspector
and NOT your real estate agent's recommendation?
By Stephanie O. Joy, Esq.
You're buying a new Home! It is a very exciting time. Many of us have been there,
some with great experiences. Others, well, not so great.
Most everyone understands the need for a Home Inspection - to learn if there are any
significant problems with the major components of the home. In fact, the need to
know this is so great, that a contract for the sale of the home, as presented from
Buyer to Seller, will always make the contract offer "contingent" on the result of a
legal Home Inspection. Do not make an offer without it!
The idea is that if you offer $300,000 for a home, you want to know that it is worth
$300,000 or more - but if the roof is about to kick the bucket, or there are structural
problems with the foundation, you could easily knock of tens of thousands of dollars
off of that $300k. And, you definitely don't want to be stuck with having to now buy a
$250k house for $300k.
Therefore, when your trusted home inspection faithfully reveals such major problems
(and some lesser ones), you can now properly evaluation the true value of that home,
taking it all into consideration. Your contract allows you to back of out of the contract
altogether if you choose, or negotiate with the Seller on a new price.
It is rumored that some real estate professionals detest the Contingent Home
Inspection, because it gives the Buyer the right to back out of a contract.
Realistically, when the truth of the home's value comes out, some Buyer's will back
out of the contract (because the problem(s) weren't disclosed by the Seller and they
simply don't want a house with a bad roof) or, although willing to try to negotiate a
lower price with the Seller, the two parties can't come to a mutual agreement on price,
and so the contract fails. Very short-sited by the RE professional - and definitely not
looking out for the interest of his buying client.
For this reason, some RE professionals limit their recommended Home Inspectors to
those that are willing to omit major problem (or lesser problems). Why would a Home
Inspector do this? Why would he or she violate his own ethical (and legal) duty to
provide a true inspection for his client (the buyer), simply because the RE
professional wants him to? Business - he gets most or all of his business from that
and other RE professionals who refer him to their clients and colleagues. If he is
unwilling or unable to stand on his own and generate his own clients - he is basically
in the pocket of the RE professionals he works with. And let's face it - not everyone is
as honest as we are - some a driven 110% by the almighty dollar.
I
and NOT your real estate agent's recommendation?
By Stephanie O. Joy, Esq.
You're buying a new Home! It is a very exciting time. Many of us have been there,
some with great experiences. Others, well, not so great.
Most everyone understands the need for a Home Inspection - to learn if there are any
significant problems with the major components of the home. In fact, the need to
know this is so great, that a contract for the sale of the home, as presented from
Buyer to Seller, will always make the contract offer "contingent" on the result of a
legal Home Inspection. Do not make an offer without it!
The idea is that if you offer $300,000 for a home, you want to know that it is worth
$300,000 or more - but if the roof is about to kick the bucket, or there are structural
problems with the foundation, you could easily knock of tens of thousands of dollars
off of that $300k. And, you definitely don't want to be stuck with having to now buy a
$250k house for $300k.
Therefore, when your trusted home inspection faithfully reveals such major problems
(and some lesser ones), you can now properly evaluation the true value of that home,
taking it all into consideration. Your contract allows you to back of out of the contract
altogether if you choose, or negotiate with the Seller on a new price.
It is rumored that some real estate professionals detest the Contingent Home
Inspection, because it gives the Buyer the right to back out of a contract.
Realistically, when the truth of the home's value comes out, some Buyer's will back
out of the contract (because the problem(s) weren't disclosed by the Seller and they
simply don't want a house with a bad roof) or, although willing to try to negotiate a
lower price with the Seller, the two parties can't come to a mutual agreement on price,
and so the contract fails. Very short-sited by the RE professional - and definitely not
looking out for the interest of his buying client.
For this reason, some RE professionals limit their recommended Home Inspectors to
those that are willing to omit major problem (or lesser problems). Why would a Home
Inspector do this? Why would he or she violate his own ethical (and legal) duty to
provide a true inspection for his client (the buyer), simply because the RE
professional wants him to? Business - he gets most or all of his business from that
and other RE professionals who refer him to their clients and colleagues. If he is
unwilling or unable to stand on his own and generate his own clients - he is basically
in the pocket of the RE professionals he works with. And let's face it - not everyone is
as honest as we are - some a driven 110% by the almighty dollar.
I
Buyers: You can't do without a legal Home
Inspection as allowed you under the
Contingency clause in your sales contract to buy
a home. Make sure you have affirmative reason
to know that the Home Inspector you hire is
looking out for your interests, not that of his
business needs or your real estate agent.
The only true method known? Use your OWN
home inspector, one recommended by trusted
friend or colleague, not one who is
recommended by your real estate agent.
Inspection as allowed you under the
Contingency clause in your sales contract to buy
a home. Make sure you have affirmative reason
to know that the Home Inspector you hire is
looking out for your interests, not that of his
business needs or your real estate agent.
The only true method known? Use your OWN
home inspector, one recommended by trusted
friend or colleague, not one who is
recommended by your real estate agent.
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