Home Purchasing Checklists Provide Protection
Home purchasing checklists provide protection for
consumers with useful information for future home repairs or current
home repairs that will need to be done before the home is sold. Home
inspectors often use checklists like these, while they're inspecting the
home.
If more home shoppers used home inspection checklist while shopping for
houses, we would probably have more satisfied homebuyers than
dissatisfied ones. Recently just purchasing a home, we had our real
estate professional, the previous homeowner's real estate professional
and a mortgage lender, involved in the purchase of the property.
There was a home inspection report from the current homeowners,
available for us to look at. It provided us with the damaged parts of
the home that were repaired or replaced. Some of these repairs were from
termite damage and it was stated so on the report. This was helpful
information for us as we walked around the home inspecting it for
damage.
The work that was repaired to look satisfactory and the rest of the home
had minor damage. Listening to one of the real estate sales people that
were involved in the transaction, you would've thought we would get in
the deal of a lifetime and they had nothing but good news to say about
the product they were representing. I easily understood that, this
person could have influenced some one into believing that the home was
in great shape, if they didn't have a home inspection checklist with
them.
The home had been re-carpeted, painted and was in generally good shape.
The problems with the home, were the old windows that were hard to open,
the heating unit leaked gas, the tile flooring that ran through the
kitchen and a large room addition looked great, except for one thing,
they installed the tile over linoleum.
This eventually will have to be replaced as the tile starts to separate
from the linoleum. While I'm writing this article, there's about 40
square feet of tile that needs to be replaced, because it's popping up
and cracking.
A home purchasing checklist does not guarantee that you will find
everything but can't eliminate some of the things that homeowners have
the biggest problems with. If you could just eliminate one of these
problems, the small price of purchasing, one of these checklists would
be worth it.
Home purchasing checklists provide protection for the shopper and I
would recommend, never shopping for a home without one.