Re: Inspections
We too prefer to have an inspection done. When we were considering our house, friends in TV recommended their house inspector. Certified? Licensed? Frankly have no idea; to us the recommendation meant more than the paperwork. Inspectors are there to find things, so we were not perturbed about his pointing out a couple of popped sheetrock nails and the fact that the light fixtures by the garage door were loose (which I fixed with a couple of turns with a pair of pliers). However, he did find one thing we thought significant, so we gave a copy of the report to the sellers, who immediately agreed to have it checked and, if necessary, fixed.
There were two other things that they had agreed beforehand to pay for (unrelated to the one house inspection issue), and even though they were not able to do these three things before the closing, they paid for both after they had already moved out, and now it's a matter of our getting the inspection issue done and a bill given to the sellers. We would not recommend this kind of 'after the fact' arrangement; it just happened to work out in our case this way, we had confidence that the sellers would follow through, and indeed they have.
We have the impression that in TV real estate sales contracts generally do NOT include contingencies (which doesn't mean, of course, that you can't ask for one). Buying a house is like anything else; there are major caveats attached to doing so, and you have to be comfortable however you do it. I might add that I have owned quite a few homes over the years and I am reasonably knowledgeable and handy; I have the impression that houses in TV are pretty well built (or at least ours is...).
INMO....
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