Toss in a 50lb bag of lime also ;)

What does drainage have to do with selling the house?

Who knows? She's just an old Karen. They're all ****ed in the head.

rjp

You guys are funny. I have a neighbor friend who lives 100 feet away and has a "karen" next door. The friend has called the cops on the old bitty several times and she usually ends up getting a ticket but every time tells the cops "I am not going to leave her alone!"

Guess she does not understand that harassing a ATF agent and their family is usually not a good thing... but she is going to find out shortly.

Give her $200 to STFU for a while. It works.

Yeah, I don't get this thread. All of sudden there's a problem that a potential sale brought up out of nowhere?

Or is there a bit more to this?

And if there is a likelihood of a home inspector finding something, fix it first! In fact, it might be a good idea in general for all home sellers to 1), get a pre inspection from a friendly contractor w/o all the pics and paperwork. Just a quick walk through and, "What do you think about this?" 2), Vet the actual home inspector. Some of these folks are not qualified and/or crooked. I wouldn't let the buyer's agent choose the inspector, at least w/o my own choice for a backup if something is in a gray area.

There are lots of 'gray' areas in any home.

The buyer picks the home inspector. You don’t get a choice. And yes there are some stupid home inspectors out there…

From my experience, the buyer's inspector always finds things to justify their fee. Often, they are nonsense, but helpful in negotiations. Some buyers make an offer to take the property off the market and then try to get the price down. I recently sold a home where I could have probably had a bidding war as I had multiple full price offers the first day and gave it to the best offeror. Then they came up with about 4K in repairs at closing including replacing the faucets in all four bathrooms because they were "rusty". All were almost brand new, and the buyer apparently just did not like the common Delta faucets. It made me angry enough that I almost pulled out of the deal. Apparently, there was also something wrong with the garage door, so I told them that we would give them $500 to fix whatever they chose, and if not...we had another buyer. They took the deal. I never use an inspector (unless the mortgage requires it) or try to negotiate a new deal once I make an offer. To me, that is just bad faith.

Right, home inspectors are hired and paid for by the buyer. A seller can't vet them or anything. Normally, I don't even think the seller should be around.

Imagine, that'd be like you saying "I want to buy your car, but first I'd like to have Joe's Super Amazing Porsche Wrenchin' and Restorin' shop perform a PPI on it," and then the seller says, "no, I don't think they are any good, you've gotta use Motormeister because I think they are really great."

i tried pointing out defects (on a house i decided i would rather keep) to the buyer's home inspector.
i even went as far as to fake a good sized basement wall leak.
THEIR home inspector gave me a nudge and a wink. not a word was said to the buyers.
OTOH our last purchase - our inspector pointed out a few minor things, resulting in a negotiation and a 10K discount.

I had a bank assessor came out to my home for a refi only to tell me that the foundation has a major crack on it. That crack is on the the last of the four step from the back door going out. It blew up the refi, so I btich hard about it and ended up paying for another. All is well.

My electrician, two women, who had done exceptional work for me in the past 15 years. One of them quit, she's the helper anyway, and went on to become one of these home inspectors. I think it was 4 months of schooling and that's it. I use to get a call from her all hours of the day asking questions.

Yeah, something is wrong here. Here we have these people we pay to protect us but ended up screwing us.

Baz, some people just have an axe to grind and its all for nothing, just because they can. Those people suck. Sorry you have to go through this.

Building new homes, I tell people and they’re more than welcome to have a home inspector look at the house before drywall and finished. That said, I tell them that between myself, the county, and our internal QI processes, it’s a waste of time and money.

Most home inspectors find cosmetic items and use binoculars to look at the roof. An easy $400 to $500 for every inspection.

We had one inspector, that we banned, because he proudly called himself the deal killer. He found stupid **** or items that were based on an old code, or different jurisdiction, that homeowners would freak out.

Baz??

Sorry, wrong person. I need to pay attention. Its our Canadian from from Edmonton

^^^ No prob! I've been watching this thread because I have a neighbor lady that qualifies....but she's almost 90. So I just laugh at her.:)

Encourage the selling real estate agent to recommend an inspector. The one they pic is the one who has a seeing eye dog because they know if they find major stuff wrong they won't be recommended again.
Sadly I had that happen to me as a buyer and had a few thousand in repairs which I had done at my expense. When I sold the house I used that same inspector and like before, they found only one minor problem to be fixed for under 100.

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