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Home Inspection
I haven't posted here in a while, but I thought this may be a good place to ask my question.
We're in the process of buying our first house, and the inspection is Wednesday. Our realtor said we should be there, and it may take up to 3 hours. What do we as the buyers have to do? Do we follow the inspector around and ask questions? Is the owner usually present? It seems like it could be awkward, but I have no idea what to expect.
Re: Home Inspection
The inspector will go over what he finds with you so that you can decide whether you still want to buy the house. He'll find a bazillion things that are not up to the current code (but probably were when the house was built) and should tell you whether they are urgent and how to fix them.
Bring a camera and a pen and paper. My biggest regret is that we didn't write down all the ways our inspector told us to fix small problems and we can't remember them all now.
Think of this as a positive experience--the inspector is working for you to assess the current condition of the home. The sellers should absolutely not be there, although they will be given a copy of the report.
Follow the inspectors around. Take notes. Ask questions. They'll be able to tell you things that need immediate fixing, things that will probably need fixing in the next few years. Ours had a lot of handy tips for how to maintain things too.
For ours, it was just the 2 inspector/engineer guys, our realtor and the seller's realtor. I brought my dad along too b/c he knows a lot about home repair than I do (obviously), so he was good at bringing up questions for the inspectors.
OOOO, Megs is right--ask them as many mainenance questions as you can think of. And ask them to point out house items that need attention (water heater, pilot light, furnace filter, air filter, the weird light in my AC that kills germs).
Does the same person do an insect inspection? We had to hire a different guy to look for termites and I feel better knowing we had it checked.
I had my REA handle arranging the inspection. They didn't have me come until the last hour, and at that point we went around with the inspector and REA so they could point out things he found. A few hours later the inspector emailed me a huge PDF report with text and pictures. We still haven't fixed anything he pointed out to us. Oops.
Good luck! The homebuying process is insanely stressful with highs and lows, but it's worth it.
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
OOh yeahh we got one of those PDFs with a summary of the inspection too. Which reminds me I should reread that.