| Is there any good reason to do your own
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| | use what you do know. Make a note if
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| home inspection? How about to get a
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| | something looks "odd" or "smells funny."
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| better deal. Every flaw you can find is a
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| | Afterwards, you can have a professional
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| negotiating point. You don't have to
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| | inspector take a closer look.
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| learn building codes, and you probably
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| | Home Inspection As A Negotiating Toolmany
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| should use a professional inspector in
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| | buyers make an offer on a home with an
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| any case. The point of learning what to
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| | inspection contingency clause. After an
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| look for is to protect yourself and get a
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| | inspector goes in, the buyer can
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| better deal.
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| | re-negotiate the price based on his
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| Home Inspection - Use A Checklist
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| | findings, or at least know that nothing
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| A good home inspection checklist, keeps
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| | is wrong. This isn't a bad way to go, but
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| you from forgetting things. I have more
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| | lowering your offer too much can often
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| than a hundred items on my own list.
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| | offend a seller, and blow the deal. How
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| Think you could keep all these items in
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| | would you feel if somebody dropped their
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| mind as you walk through a property? For
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| | offer by $10,000 after they already put
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| tht matter, did you remember to look for
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| | it in writing?
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| water stains on the basement walls the
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| | A better way is to find as many problems
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| last time you looked at a house? Bring a
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| | with the property as you can, BEFORE
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| list!
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| | making the offer. A list of these
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| Good lists are organized by area of the
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| | problems presented with an offer is a
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| house, usually starting outside. Walk
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| | good impersonal (therefore non-offensive)
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| around and then through the home,
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| | way to present a low first offer. It's a
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| checking each item on the list. Take
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| | good idea to keep the inspection
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| notes. If a gutter is coming loose on the
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| | contingency in the offer, but you
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| side of the house, write it down, along
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| | probably won't have to lower your offer
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| with notes about rotting wood or anything
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| | this way.
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| else you notice.
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| | There is no need to be a carpenter to
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| It doesn't matter if you don't know the
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| | note that a railing is loose. Most of us
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| difference between 12-gauge and 14-gauge
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| | can see if a home needs new paint. Home
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| wiring. You don't have to become an
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| | inspection can start with simple things
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| expert on all the building trades, as
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| | like these, and end with a better price
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| useful as this would be. You just have to
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| | for you.
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