Most home buyers are unaware of what occurs behind the scenes during the purchase of a home -- typically the biggest investment of their lifetime. The author has taken time off from training home inspectors and conducting home inspections to provide home buyers with detailed information on what actually occurs during the home purchase process with respect to home inspections. This informative book helps home buyers better understand the concerns they should have regarding the real estate agent/home inspector relationship. Through checklists, color photos, and tables, this book helps buyers evaluate a home they are considering purchasing, as well as home inspection firms. Hopefully this book will help many home buyers be smarter consumers in purchasing a new home, or in purchasing their next home.
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Stan Harbuck has been a home inspector for well over a decade and has trained hundreds of home inspectors either directly or indirectly through training programs (both classroom and correspondence) he has developed. He is also a licensed termite and building code inspector. Stan has even taught day courses about housing topics and home inspections at the university level.
Stan has also participated in national-level programs for evaluating quality control for new construction in progress and quality control of some manufacturers who make construction supplies. He has also had a variety of other experiences that have helped him in his inspection work such as serving as an attorney's assistant, and on task forces, workshops, or committees of several important national associations related to housing and inspections. Stan has also served as an expert resource to the media and in lawsuits.
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From Chapter 1: "Deal Killers"
The derogatory phrase "deal killer" is often used in the real estate industry to describe independent home inspectors who give buyers objective information in an inspection report, which may lead the buyer to renegotiate or to look at other properties.
Many real estate agents view independent home inspectors as a challenge to ability to generate income. They view these "deal killers" as foes and will use a number of tactics to make sure that their buyers do not retain independent home inspectors. For instance, in the first stage of discussion about having the home inspected, the real estate agent may recommend to the buyer a "good" home inspector with whom they have worked for several years. Some agents may have a list of three inspectors who have been carefully screened not to be deal killers. The list, however, will be long enough to protect the agent from any referral liability should the buyer want to blame the agent for any inspection mistakes. This gives the agent the perfect combination of: a) no liability for the referral; b) the buyer ultimately "chooses" an inspector the agent prefers; and c) the buyer's choice is confined to dependent home inspectors who will not hurt a sale.
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a good counterpoint to the typical home buying books,
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This review is from: 100 Major Item Home Inspection Checklist for Home Buyers and 10 Point Criteria for Choosing an Independent Home Inspector (Paperback)
This booklet is unflinching in its depiction of unscrupulous real estate agents being out to get you. The author gives useful information about what tricks you should look out for during the inspection process and in how agent-approved inspectors may not be looking out for you as much as they could be. Self-serving information, no doubt, given the author is an independent inspector, but it is good to hear the story from all sides.After reading this booklet I knew what kind of inspections I needed to have done. I understood what the inspector would and would not do, and what the inspector could reasonably tell me and what they could not. The booklet struck me as overly paranoid with regard to the lack of integrity of real estate agents. But this booklet (yes booklet, it is stapled like a magazine, not bound) serves as a useful counterpoint to the home buying guides written by real estate agents, which usually paint a much rosier home-buying picture.
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