Pre-Listing Home Inspection [ edit ]

Inspections are for your protection. If there are serious flaws, such as a cracked foundation, you may decide that you don’t want to buy this particular home after all. If your purchase contract is contingent on a satisfactory inspection, you should be able to cancel the sale without penalty. If there are parts of the home that are damaged or worn out, you may want to negotiate with the seller to have these fixed before you move in, or to give you a credit for the cost of the repairs. Michael litchfield has been renovating houses or writing about them for more than 40 years. During that time he has been a founding editor of fine homebuilding magazine, the author of 12 acclaimed books on home design and renovation, and editor of a cnet/yahoo! gold star home improvement site. He is also a certified green building professional. Roger c. Robinson has been inspecting residential and commercial properties in the bay area since 1979 and has inspected thousands of homes. He has helped found several chapters of creia (california real estate inspection association) and ashi (american society of home inspectors). No home is perfect, but some are definitely worse