Jonathan Dalton inspired this post by his post about the Forest and the Trees.
One of the things we learned quickly in real estate was to do everything possible to avoid - preclude - prevent - whatever your favorite word is - BAD surprises during the course of a transaction. Since we were and are primarily focused on listings, we found that there were several "opportunities" for the ever lurking "Murphy" to swoop in on any transaction, all of which could be prevented in advance.
One of the predominant ones "Buyer Inspections and Request for Repairs" I'll address in this post - and save the (98 comments)
binsr: An interesting BINSR
- 10/17/06 08:38 AM
In Arizona the Buyer's Inspection Notice and Seller's Response is affectionately known as the BINSR. Today we struggled through a 28 item request for repairs on a resale - which was new construction and had never been lived in! We have the listing, and we have Sellers wishing they had ordered a home inspection when they purchased. Yes, the home is under warranty - although the Builder has double digit complaints against them - and yes - we did a pre-listing inspection that discovered "minor" issues like holes cut in the roof for vent pipes that had been tiled over without installing the (4 comments)
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