The Neeed for Pre-purchase Building and Pest Inspections Before You Buy a Home

Your decision not to hire pre-purchasing building and pest inspection service can turn out to be an expensive one. For several-hundred dollars, and we’re talking about a several-hundred-thousand dollar investments, you can avoid nasty little surprises which come with unchecked homes. Well, not really little surprises, since you might even face an unexpected bill of more than $30,000. Although more than 70% buyers intend to have a pre-purchase inspection done, only about 30% really has it. So, why should you hire building and pest inspection service before buying a home?

In general, pre-purchase building inspection is a visual inspection of the entire place, inside and out, which identifies anything from minor defects to major structural falts, safety hazards and maintenance issues. Not only do these inspections identify defects and faults, but they also offer suggestions on how to remedy them and their expected cost. So, if you find out there’s $60,000 of repairs, you’ll be well informed when bidding on or pricing that property. If overall cost oversteps your budget, you’ll be advised to walk away and look for another property.

Even though major structural faults are rarely found, you shouldn’t count on that that the luck will be on your side when buying a home. Poor electrical wiring, unhealthy mould or a balustrade which moves away are just some of those “serious faults”. Even if you still want to buy the property despite these big danger signals, it’s better to know what you should expect from your new home: forewarned is forearmed. Well-done building and pest inspection should form the basis of a future maintenance plan.

When the inspection is being done, you should be on site and to ask the inspector anything regarding the property before the final decision to purchase it. It it, though, recommended to understand the scope of the inspection or what the inspector will and will not look at.