Post Inspection

After you receive the inspection report, you should read it carefully before going back to your Realtor and making the post inspection addendum. This addendum is, in essence, a counter offer that you make to the seller asking for certain items to be repaired or replaced before you buy the property. In most cases, the offer you made to buy the property subject to a Commercial Inspection by a professional Inspector holds the seller responsible to make good only those defects in the building that relate to your contract.

There will be instances on the report where it is noted that an item "needs repair or replacement". The item in question should be repaired, but may not be something that you can go back to the seller about because it is not a defect, and does not relate to habitability or safety. In most cases these would be smaller items needing a repair that would normally be considered routine maintenance. (See "post inspection agreement")

We recommend that you insist that a contractor or a licensed professional makes any repairs to the property that are required as a result of the Commerecial inspection. Receipts for the work done should be given to you at the time of closing to show and prove that the work has been properly done.