05/21/2024
✨TIP TUESDAY✨
I always recommend doing your due diligence before purchasing your new home! Here's reasons why:
1. It Provides an "Out"
A quality home inspection can reveal critical information about the condition of a home and its systems. This makes the buyer aware of what costs, repairs and maintenance the home may require immediately, and over time.
2. Safety
A home inspection can detect safety issues like radon, carbon monoxide, and mold, which all homes should be tested for. Make sure that your home-buying contract states that should such hazards be detected, you have the option to cancel the offer to buy.
3. Reveal Illegal Additions or Installations
A home inspection can reveal whether rooms, altered garages or basements were completed without a proper permit, or did not follow code.
4. Protection
Home inspections are even more critical if you are buying an "as-is" foreclosed property or short sale. Dwellings that have been boarded often develop hazardous mold problems, which are costly to remedy and pose health concerns.
5. Negotiating Tool
Work with your realtor to understand what requests can and should be made to negotiate a better deal.
Call today if you are in the market of finding your new dream home and have any questions of the process!!
Jessica Freeman
816-682-4144
816-524-7272
[email protected]
Jessicafreeman.reecenichols.com
