Questions To Ask Your California Home Inspector

When you buy a home in California, you do have the option of waiving the home inspection. Most buyers use the home inspection for peace of mind. The home inspection can give buyers significant information about a property that they wouldn't otherwise know by scanning the property with their eyes. Below, you’ll find some tips to help you make the most of your California home inspection. You want to be prepared to speak the lingo with your home inspector. Buying a home is one of the biggest investments that you’ll ever make in your lifetime.

Ask About The Nature Of The Problems Noted By The Inspector

While a California home inspector cannot make repairs or directly give you repair advice, you can ask the inspector to elaborate on the problems at hand in the home. This way, you’ll know how urgent a problem is to fix if it’s going to be a great expense to fix it and if it’s a big roadblock in you buying the home. Sometimes, problems require further evaluation by other professionals like electricians and plumbers. 

Bring A Notepad

It’s important to take notes during the home inspection. You’ll never remember many of the things that the inspector notes during the tour of the home. While you will get a detailed report of what the inspection found, having your own notes allows you to refer back to issues that were found in the home in layman’s terms.

How Urgent Will This Need To Be Tended To?

If you understand how urgent the problems in the home you’re considering buying are, you’ll get a better sense of how good of an investment the property will be. You obviously don’t want to buy a home that has problems you can’t deal with. Reasons that you may not be able to tend to a home include timing, budget, or something that severely affects the home’s value.

From the time the inspection is completed, you will be able to work with your realtor to ask for certain things in the home to be fixed. The seller will either have to give you cash back, fix the problem or decline to do anything. This will have an impact on whether or not you’ll buy the home.  

If you go into your California home inspection prepared, your inspector can certainly be quite an advocate for you. The inspection is one of the most important tasks that you’ll undertake in the home buying process. Make it a part of your investment.