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The Importance of a Home Inspection in the Purchase of New, or To-Be-Built, Construction
As a Northern Virginia Realtor®, I always recommend that my New Construction, or To-Be-Built Construction, Buyers have a home inspection.  Just because something is being built from the ground up, or is brand new, doesn't mean it is without flaws.  Sometimes serious and costly flaws.  I like to use my own experience as an example. 
When my husband and I went under contract to purchase our To-Be-Built home in Bristow's community of Braemar, our agent never mentioned a home inspection.  Two months after settling on the home, I had my real estate license and began the process of attending classes for my mandatory post-licensing education.  One of the courses I attended was by a local home inspector who regulary inspected homes under construction for his buyer clients.  The things he found scared me.  And, as with any profession, this inspector began to find the same flaws over and over in homes built by particular builder.  Builder A may have predictible roof truss problems.  Builder B may have predictible eletrical panel issues.  You get the idea.
Just before our one year punchlist was due to our builder, I hired this home inspector to come to my home and inspect it.  What he found ... more

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