When purchasing a house an inspection is obviously one of the important steps especially if the financing is going FHA or a similar program. However some people, especially inexperienced first time home buyers, will take the sellers for their word and forgo a follow up to make sure what was said to be done was actually done.
This happened to me when I purchased my first house. The inspector came and found very little actually wrong with the house. Just minor things like the bathroom sinks had rust on the over flow drains and the furnace needed to be serviced. Also the sellers had done some home improvements and had run wires for a water fountain along the side of the house but didn't put it in any kind of conduit to protect it. There was also a large pile of debris from the old carpet and other parts of the house they had done improvements on but didn't take the old stuff to the dump yet. In the contract we had it stated that all the garbage on the side of the house was to be removed and that the furnace was to be serviced along with the sewer pumped and the bathroom sinks replaced.
We took the people for their word that the things were fixed and preceded with purchasing the house without going back out to do a final inspection. BIG MISTAKE!!!
So the deal closes and we go to move in. The people weren't out when they were supposed to be so we showed up in the drive way with a truck and trailer full of stuff and couldn't start unloading yet. So we had to go burn a few hours until they were out. We finally got to start moving in and the garage still had a bunch of junk in it. The debris that was along the side of the house was only partially gone. They got rid of the rolls of carpet but left a bunch of other stuff there. The wires in the front of the house that were supposed to be put in conduit was put in conduit but the wires in the back of the house for the fountain were merely cut out rolled up and thrown on the ground leaving the fountain inoperable and they just put a receptacle box in it's place as well as the wires on the opposite side of the house for the other fountain were just cut and buried in the ground and they just caulked the hole where it came out of the side of the house.
I contacted my real estate agent (who was worthless from the start but that's for another blog) said we signed a paper releasing them from anything and they couldn't do anything. So we contacted the sellers agent and he gave us pretty much the same thing and said that they (mainly the wife) was one of the worst sellers he's worked with.
So the moral of the story always follow up on the inspection and MAKE SURE IT WAS DONE RIGHT BEFORE YOU MOVE ON!!!
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