After having a home inspection you will receive your inspection report from me within 24 hours of completing the home inspection. Usually you’ll take a few days to go through the report and meet with your agent and decide which items you would like to request to be repaired by the seller. It doesn’t always go like this, but this is the most typical direction. Once you decide which items you want to request to be fixed, your agent will write up an inspection response and send it to the seller and sellers agent. At that point the seller may decide to either fix everything, fix nothing, or fix a certain things.

Here is where the re-inspection comes in. Once the sellers inform you the items have been fixed most people just take their word for it and finish the process of buying the house and moving in. But not you! You are a smart home buyer so you will have me come back for a small fee to inspect the items the seller fixed to make sure they were properly repaired. I will tell you this, of all the re-inspections I have performed for my clients, not one has the seller repaired everything they said they would and/or repaired the items properly.

This is why a re-inspection is so important. The small fee for it could save you hundreds and even thousands. Call or text us to schedule your re-inspection.

Here’s a quick example of this happening. I did an inspection on a home and it had an issue with the furnace short cycling. The client requested the issue be fixed. The seller claimed they had an HVAC guy come out and said the furnace was fine. I went back out for a re-inspection and the furnace was still short cycling. My client and his agent went back to the sellers saying I said it still had an issue and they requested another HVAC company come out to look at it. Another HVAC company came out to look at it and after evaluating it they decided the entire furnace needed to be replaced. That re-inspection I did saved the client THOUSANDS of dollars.