[skyguy79]

We sold two houses up north. One in 2009 and the other last year. In both cases there were issues found that had to be resolved.

2009 sale - There were two issues. One was that a termite tunnel was found in one of the garage beams. In 26 years in that home we never detected any problem of that nature until the inspector found it..It was an easy and inexpensive resolution for that problem. The other problem the inspector found is that the fireplace chimney was pulling away for the house. That was a little more of a problem and cost us about 5G's to fix that.

2011 sale - There were two issues found here too! One was the radon level exceed an acceptable level. That was a fairly inexpensive fix - about 1200 if I remember correctly. They also found that our home was in a flood zone and that cost IIRC around $500 to get an engineers elevation report to demonstrate to the buyer that there was no real risk. Funny part is that the home was in the family since it was built in 1954 and never once did we ever have a hint of there being a radon problem nor once did the home get flooded and the closest a flood water ever came to the house was more than 2 blocks away. We did however have a few occasions over the years where storm drains backed up and we got no more that a half a foot of water in the basement.

In both cases we only lost one buyer and had the home sold within a few months. The one case was because of the newly found out flood zone. So what does this tell you? It simply tells you that you have to expect the unexpected. I hope however that it doesn't happen to you, and if it does that the resolution is fairly inexpensive for you like it was for us in two of our problems. Good luck!