The Home Inspection Process for Buyers

Buying a home can be an amazing but also a stressful experience for people. You find the home of your dreams but then there are so many issues to contend with. You may have to compete with other buyers, deal with negotiations on price or other issues like...

What Is The Difference Between a Home Inspection and an Appraisal?

If you are buying a home for the first time, you may think an appraisal and a home inspection are the same thing. They aren’t. They are both important factors in the home buying process but are completely separate even though they have some similar features. Here are...

Sell Your Home Faster & for More Money

Top 4 Reasons to Get a Home Inspection BEFORE You List Your Home! Whether you are using a realtor or going it on your own, there are benefits to getting a pre-listing home inspection. While the buyer typically orders and pays for a home inspection in the real estate...

The Inspection Contingency.

    The dictionary defines a contingency as “a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.” That’s an accurate definition for home buying contingencies, as well. When you include these items in a...

Defects Found? Don’t Freak Out

Though most inspections are not technically pass-fail, when your pest, property and roof inspections collectively come out either terrific or tragically terrible, the decision to proceed or back out can come easy.   Similarly, when you get the place at a discount...