After being informed by the agent that the client had declined the home inspection, we suggested that possibly a systems inspection would be more appropriate rather than a home inspection. Unfortunately, the agent was rushed to put together the contract over the holidays, that our suggestion was likely not understood. Hence the purpose of this post, to discuss how to accomodate an inspection where there is competitive bidding.
Our recommendation is to select the most worrying house systems for an inspection. The systems menu includes: Roof, Exterior, Structure, Electrical, Heating and Air Conditioning, Plumbing, Insulation and Interior. For example, a client may be concerned about water ingress, so Roof, Exterior and Interior may be the 3 systems needing an inspection. Or, there may be a shop that was suspected of being a grow-op… in this case the condition of Electrical, Plumbing and Interior may be most relevant to the buyer.