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Inspections?
For those who have bought, what inspections did you schedule? We are doing home, radon and wood destroying insect inspections.
Is there any reason to get a mold or carbon monoxide inspection? The sellers disclosed no mold, but I know this can be a huge issue (we had a water leak in our current condo) so I worry.
Maybe I am being too cautious.....
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Re: Inspections?
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IMO, these sound like add on inspections just to get more money out of you, but I didn't even know these were done, so maybe I'm missing something.
What is a carbon monoxide inspection? It's either leaking into the home or not. Couldn't you just walk in with a battery-powered detector in your purse and find out the same thing? If it is leaking the homeowners would be sick or dead.
And mold inspection - what do they do to check for mold? They can't swab the whole house, so how is it decided what to swab? If a regular inspection notes water damage then you could check there, otherwise I don't know where they would begin. And again, maybe I'm missing something, but you can pick up a mold detection kit at Home Depot for about $10 if you want to check vents or water damaged areas.
Just don't do any of this in front of the homeowners if you don't want to insult and/or baffle them
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I would do a mold inspection as a follow-up if signs of mold or water issues were identified during the regular home inspection. We were not interested in homes with any signs of a potential mold issue, so we walked away at the first sign of trouble rather than pay for an additional inspection.
For our house we did home, wood destroying insects, septic, and well. We skipped radon because the home already had a radon remediation system, and the home inspection looked at that existing system to verify its functionality. We also skipped the in depth chimney inspection because we were in a competitive situation and knew that the results of the chimney inspection would not change our decision. Worst case scenario would mean that we would simply not be able to use the fireplace until we had things repaired. We had all inspections done in a 4 hour period on the same day. It was hectic, but made it easy on our sellers and we wanted to keep the goodwill flowing.