I wanted to take a minute, I’m at a home with an inspector and I haven’t done a video about home inspections for a little bit. Just want to share something with you just because of
experiences he’s had and he shares with me.
One of the things that most home buyers like to do is when they have a home inspector they want to come while the home inspector is there or at the end of the inspection and go through the home with the inspector look at the reports, see what they say about the home. And one of the things that the inspector that I just met with on this home here, he said buyers need to understand that they don’t own the home.
And remember I’ve done some videos where a home inspection, if you remember is a visual inspection and easily accessible inspection, so the inspector is only going to do that; they’re going to visually inspect things and things that are easily accessible.
Now one of the things they’ll do is they will take an electrical panel off because they want to make sure that the circuits are connected right, that the wiring is correct and everything is done that way
correct. But everything else they’re not going to take fixtures off of the ceiling, they’re not going to take plates off of the outlets, the switches, there’s just a lot of things they won’t dig into.
So what this inspector says is lots of times the buyer comes to meet with them and wants them to start looking into things and taking things off and really digging into things and they just don’t
do that.
So remember you’re not the homeowner yet. So the home inspection is really, I mean it’s important I really encourage my buyers to have a home inspection, but it’s not digging into, and a home inspector
will tell you this, you know you may need to get a plumber because this faucet, the
pressures low on it or you know other things, but just remember you’re not the
owner yet.
So a home inspectors not going to be looking into things like a contractor would once you’re an owner and really digging into it.
Another experience we had is once the homeowner purchased the home and they took the fixtures off the ceiling there were some bad connections, some bad wiring and it had been changed at the panel but not at the fixtures, so they were upset and just understand that home inspectors not
going to get into that deep.
So anyway to have a home inspection, if you have a question get a hold of me, love to help you, and have a great week, take care.