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, you made an offer to buy the property subject to a Home Inspection by a professional Inspector, and this holds the seller responsible to make good only those defects in the building, that relate to habitability, safety or items included on your contract.

Your Realtor will advise you as to what is a defect, and what issues relate to habitability or safety. 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 not necessarily by the seller as technically it might not be considered a 'defect', nor does it affect habitability or safety. Most likely these would be smaller items needing a repair that would fall under the category of 'routine maintenance'. (See "post inspection addendum")

We recommend that you insist on the seller hiring licensed contractors to make any of the repairs to the property that are required as a result of our Inspection report. Receipts for the work completed should be furnished at the time of closing, to guarantee that the work has been professionally completed.