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Inspection results, they truly are your best friend!
I haven't been around much because we had a lot of storms and lost internet and I've had family in town. The house we were under contract with didn't do so hot on the inspection. By not so hot, I mean miserable. The roof had hidden issues we couldn't see from the ground, the a/c was wired wrong and not working, there was mold and termite damage in the crawlspace underneath, and there was water pooling on the vapor barrier underneath. Upon closer inspection, turns out their were portions of the yard that were graded so that water would flow directly toward the foundation and without a serious overhaul we'd continue to have issues.
The icing on the cake was finding the meth pipes in attic! Our inspector came back from checking duct work and showed us the stash. You know it's a KLASSY inspection when a you end up with a K-9 unit at your inspection searching for drugs.
It was a pretty miserable experience and left a bad taste in my mouth. Obviously, we said thanks but no
thanks and walked. I am very thankful for how awesome our inspector was, he saved us a ton of $ and heartache later on!
Re: Inspection results, they truly are your best friend!
Holy crap, worst inspection story I've ever heard. This is why the rule is, if you 'can't afford' or 'don't want to pay extra money for' an inspection, you need one even more. They save tons of money down the line through being able to demand seller repairs or just running away.... far, far away from the house.
Hopefully you can step back and laugh at anyone trying to sell that house seriously right now. I'm half hoping it's a foreclosure just to know people aren't that stupid (leaving a drug stash when a full home inspection is happening, really.)
It was a foreclosure. The bank claimed they had a termite letter and when we went to access the crawlspace it was bolted shut and painted over. So either the bank didn't do a good job or they didn't want people getting in there.
Now that we've had a bit of time to breathe it is getting fun watching them try to sell the house. They lowered the price 6k a few days after our inspection and we were like it's going to have to go a lot lower than that. We've also gotten a lot more aggressive with what we look at during our walk throughs without the inspector. He taught us a lot and we've put it into practice!
I hated looking at foreclosures - they'd always have bolts on the crawlspaces and attic accesses so there was no looking those places before making an offer - plus the ones with water and utilities off - ugh. We found a local bank foreclosure with everything on and mostly rehabbed, so amazingly different than the HUD and national bank ones we had seen.
Our realtor was trying to convince us that we should only go to the last half hour of the inspection to get the run down (she's a whole other story), despite the inspector telling me we could be there the whole time so he could show us stuff, or that some people only showed up at the end if they were busy. We went the full 3+hours and learned so much -and it was only a 900 sqft house.
So glad you guys have some new knowledge to put to use in the house hunt now... and that it was a foreclosure so my hope in the word is a little bit restored
We've seen some nice foreclosures and some total dives. I can't believe your realtor told you to only go to the last part of the inspection! Mine told us to make sure we hired someone who would let us go. We actually had a small army it seemed at our inspection! There were five of us!
That was one way I knew I liked our inspector, he encouraged me to bring family or friends along so I could hear multiple perspectives. We were there over four hours and he never once got impatient.