“Gotcha!”:

The Biggest Surprise

Threats to Completing a Sale

 

You’ve seen it happen more often than you want to remember: A sale looks all buttoned up, with a satisfied buyer and seller and two happy Realtors,^® until the home inspector discovers some nasty little defect that surprises the buyer, worries the seller, and threatens to scotch the whole deal.

 

Help you and your clients avoid such a contingency by anticipating, checking for, and dealing with the biggest “gotchas” in selling a home. Each issue we will discuss one of the following topics: Structure, Roofing, Exterior, HVAC, Interiors, Pluming, Appliance Systems and problems thereof.

 

Here, courtesy of our A-Pro owners:

TOPIC- STRUCTURE

PROBLEM: ROOFING-

Wear on a roof may be visible if Familiarize yourself with the following systems and components as well as the checklist at the end of the bullets; This should give you a good idea of what your “CHI “Certified A-Pro Home Inspector will be looking for with his/her trained eye.

•  the wear is very advanced but a roof that is starting to age is a more of a subtle defect that the “CHI” Certified A-Pro Home Inspector can expose.
• Resurfacing a roof can be a huge undertaking and costs thousands of dollars; if the existing roofing surface needs to be removed prior to re-roofing it can cost even more. This major expense may be paid by the seller if it wasn’t identified in the disclosure documentation.
• To see what’s inspected by your “CHI” home inspection checklist for roofing click here.

 

WORD OF ADVICE: provided by A-Pro Owner Ron Faraci, of Rockport, TX:

• Ron says, To see what’s inspected by your “CHI” home inspection checklist for roofing click here.