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What You Should Know About Your Home Inspection
What You Should Know About Your Home Inspection
I wrote a recent post detailing the Massachusetts Offer to Purchase Real Estate.   Part of this contract will be your home inspection contingency clause.    You will likely hire a home inspector to evaluate your new purchase prior to entering the next contract, the Purchase and Sales agreement. 
You have worked hard finding your new home.   You've researched the market, spent hours upon hours peering at homes on line, and even more visiting those homes.   But, now it's done!   You've found that home, and have come to terms with the Seller on the property!    Your offer allows for you to have a home inspection usually within a specified amount of time.   Think within 10 days.   That should give you plenty of time for this phase, during which the Seller will have his house off the market.  The Inspection Contingency Clause is is fairly standard and expected.   In most cases this clause will give you the opportunity to investigate the property and back out of the transaction if you find any major structural, mechanical or other defects.  
What You Should Know  Be present for the inspection.   This way you can investigate the property along with ... more

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