What a Buyer Should Not Expect of a Home Inpsector
It has been estimated that approximately 75% of all home purchases today have a home inspection.
Purchasing a home is one of the largest investments of your life, and like any other investment you want to learn as much as possible about your investment before purchasing. A professional home inspector is trained to help you with those efforts.
What a Home Inspection is not:
- A Home Inspection is not designed as a to-do list for the sellers, but is designed to find major structural defects or safety hazards in the home.
- A home inspector should never pass or fail a home; they are there to give a professional opinion on what their findings are at the time of the inspection.
- A home inspector is not a Real Estate Professional. They should not give their opinion on what the home value is.
- A home inspector should not determine or tell customers what they should ask or not ask sellers to fix during a Home Inspection. This is information that the buyers should discuss with their Real Estate Professional and make a decision what is best for them.
- It is important to remember that while a Home Inspection is designed to reduce the risk of purchasing a home with major defects in it, the home inspection still cannot eliminate that risk completely.
- A Home Inspector will not be able to determine what is behind a closed wall, as this house is not theirs and they are not able to damage anything in the home to help them with the inspection.
- If major structural damage or safety hazards are found in a home a Home Inspector should request a professional in that particular field to come in and make an assessment on the issues found. A Home Inspector should not recommend that they can make all repairs.
- Home Inspectors are not kitchen or laundry appliance inspectors, if your Home Inspector says he inspects these items it is a very basic inspection, because when your really think about how many different ways a stove or any other appliance operates and your not a professional in that field there is no way you can do a proper inspection.