Helpful Tips for You're Home Shopping-Part One of Two Series

Helpful Tips for You're Home Shopping-Part One of Two Series, whether you're a First Time Home Buyer, or a Move up Home Buyer. You'll more than likely, be going out and looking at many different kind of homes. And with so many Bank Own homes on the market, you may even look at some of them.

When Home Shopping, its really not always financally feasible for a Home Buyer in these economy times, to have a Home Inspection of each and every home you look at. Some Home Buyers even pick out a couple of back up homes, to make offers on.

Helpful Tips for You're Home Shopping-Part One of Two Series, a Home Buyer usual makes an offer on the home, before they have a Home Inspector come into the picture of the home buying process.

Fortunately these helpful tips can help protest yours and your family's investment, just by training your eyes to detect out in site possible weaknesses with the homes you look at. Then you can base a sound opinion whether to or not to make an offer on the home. Based on any future maintenance or renovation costs.

Helpful Tips for You're Home Shopping-Part One of Two Series, below you'll find the first 6 tips that could very will spell out home distress for you and your family. Each of the problems in each part of the series can be fixed, but a course for a price.

Please do remember! you and your family will still want to have a full Home Inspection, of the home you decide on to buy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Strange Feelings: If its dead of winter, if the home's windows are open, and there are candles and incense burning and the heat is blasting, more than likely there is a serious problem the seller is trying their best to hide.

2. Bad smells: If the home smells foul to you, it could have a serious mold problem behind freshly painted walls. Removing mold could cost you and your family thousands of dollars. The removing of pet odors is less expensive, but it sure can take a long time to make the home smell fresh, that is, if you are even able to.

And what about a Mildew smell in the home's basement, is a sign that water regularly seeps into the basement.

3. Brown stains on the ceilling: Could very well indication of a past or even a current leaking problem. Water travels; so you should not assume that the source of the leak is directly above where the stain is. Water could very will be coming in from the home's roof.You'll want a Home Inspector to look at this area for you.

4. An area has been repainted recently: If you see that a basement wall has been freshly painted, but no other area has been, its highlly possible the seller doesn't want you to see something, like stains from when the basement had last flooded.

Brown stains on the basement walls, is another sign of past or current water damage.

A wet drain in the basement, if the home is on a sewer system. This could mean tree roots have burrowed their way into the sewer.

5. Warped wood floorboards: Peeling floor and cracked floor tiles: Warped floorboards can point to water damage. If the floor tile is peeling, its possible the under layment has been soaked, ended up expanding and then destroyed the glue holding the floor together. Cracked ceramic tiles can also be a sign of water damage.

6. If the home's roof has three layers: You'll need to look around the edge of the home's roof. If there are three layers of roofing on the home. You'll more than likely need to have them pulled off, when it comes time to have the home re-roofed. Which is going to be an additional expense to your regular roofing cost.

 

Link to Part Two:

Helpful Tips for You're Home Shopping-Part Two of Two Series    

 

 

Disclaimer: Any of the information herein may come from various sources, some of which may not be reliable and may change without any kind of notice. Dale Baker does not guarantee or is in any way responsible for the accuracy of the information in this blog and the information provided is without any kind of warranties, either express or implied. The information on this blog represents the opinions and ideas of the author; comments left by others may not express the views of the author. Dale Baker Owner: Baker Home Energy Audit/Commercial Properties Inspections. Copyright 2010 By Dale Baker-all rights reserved.


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