- Check heating and cooling systems for leaks and efficiency
- Check electrical systems for safety and soundness of design
- Check plumbing systems for venting, distribution, and drainage
Simple Real Estate Definitions : Home Inspection
When you preview homes as a home buyer, you can get a good feel for the home's visible traits -- its finishes, its room counts, and its landscaping, for example. What you can't get a feel for, though, is the home's "bones".
It's for this reason that real estate professionals recommend that you have a property formally inspected immediately after going into contract for it.
A home inspection is a thorough, top-to-bottom check-up of a property's structure and systems. It is not the same as a home appraisal, which is a valuation of the property. By contrast, home inspections are an objective report on a home's physical condition.
Home inspections are performed by home inspectors who will typically do the following :
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