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Determining Your Home's Value
Determining your home's value, and setting a price, is probably the most important step in selling your home. Why? Because if your home is overpriced for your area, no matter what the cost of improvements that you have made on your house, buyers...
Essential Guide to Choosing the Right HDTV Antenna
Aside from choosing your HDTV set itself, choosing the right
HDTV antenna is the most important decision you're going to make
in relation to watching HDTV. Even if you watch most of your
HDTV on cable or satellite, you should still invest in a...
For Sale by Owner: how to sell your home yourself
'For sale by owner.' Four words that are becoming more and more
common in the real estate market. But it selling your home
yourself the right approach for you? And if so, how do you go
about it?
Let's start with the first question. The "for...
Foreclosure Basics
The thought of losing your home is one of gut-wrenching pain for many people who are in the predicament of not being able to keep up with their mortgage payment every month. Your day to day activities can be consumed with worry and distraction, not...
Your Dream Home In France - Moving Money To France
If you already live in France, or intend to finance your property purchase from equity in your UK home, chances are you'll want to move some money abroad.
Transfering money from the UK to France requires someone to handle the transfer on your...
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A Guide To Home Inspections
Any Sally and Sam Homebuyer can look at a home and decide whether it is attractive. They might notice it is freshly painted in pleasing colors, has the requisite number of rooms, a cook’s kitchen and is located in a location with top schools. But what about less obvious parts of the house?
It takes special expertise to determine if the functional parts of a home are in good shape. If you attend an open house, how do you determine if there are plumbing problems, electrical problems, structural problems, drainage problems, the condition of heating and air conditioning equipment and the condition of literally hundreds of other items that could cause concern?
Enter the home inspector.
A home inspector is trained to be a detective in regard to the construction and working parts of homes. It is not an exact science.
The home inspector cannot tear into things, so they can’t always see everything they’d like to. They do, however, come equipped with ladders, strong flashlights, and devices to measure various things related to plumbing, electrical and other necessary home items. Importantly, a home inspector will also typically bring a digital camera to photograph problems such as roof shingles not lying flat, signs of mildew from leaking pipes and construction that doesn’t comply with building codes. They don’t miss much.
It’s a good idea for the buyer to be present during the home inspection. If you ask them to, home inspectors will usually explain how things work to you. This is important as they can show you where cut off valves are, how to remove filters for cleaning
or replacement and tell you how often various maintenance chores need to be done. This information can be very valuable if you ultimately purchase the property.
It’s also a good idea to ask the home inspector if there are any particular tests they would perform if they were buying the home. For example, radon gas (a colorless, odorless gas which is a carcinogen) can be a problem in some parts of the country. It can be detected, measured, and, if levels are above EPA standards, there are procedures to deal with it successfully. A home inspector can help identify such issues for you.
It’s easy to see that a home inspection can provide a wealth of valuable information. While it is easy to fall in love with a listed home, a home inspector can be the key to avoiding disastrous discoveries down the line.
About the Author: Raynor James is with http://www.fsboamerica.org - providing FSBO homes for sale by owner. Visit our "sell my home?" page at http://www.fsboamerica.org/seller.cfm to list and sell your home for free for one month. Visit http://www.fsboamerica.org/buyer.cfm to see homes for sale by owner.
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