[onewhippedpuppy]

Garth, are you an agent? I swear, if I manage to find a good one they will have my business for life. We have dealt with three different agents now, both buying and selling, and you could tell they were lying if their mouths were moving. They were easily on a par with car salesmen. Our last one was so bad when we were house shopping in Wichita, we ended up just deciding to rent for another year. We probably looked at 20 houses with her, and out of that 20 she had alerted us to one. One!!! Yet she would be entitled to payment?! Never listened to what we wanted, sent us a large number of houses that were specifically what we told her we didn't want, the list goes on.

nostatic makes a good point as well, many "Home Inspectors" are a joke. The ones I have known are all washed up construction guys, probably not whom you want to trust when it comes to attention to detail. An experienced and trusted remodeling contractor is probably your best bet, I did it for years and my father in law for 30 or so thus far, so I'm never worried about inspections.