10 Steps to Buying A Home In Maine
Home Inspections - Step #7
In most cases, once you have found a home and make an offer to purchase it, you will want the professionals to check it out!
When you and your agent write the offer, you will specify which items you would like to inspect or test. Common inspections in Maine include a general building inspections, septic inspections, water tests and radon tests - but there are numerous other investigations that are available. You and your agent will decide what should be checked out on your chosen home.
- If your home does not have a septic inspection, you will probably skip the septic inspection.
- If the home has a well, your financing might require a water test.
- You may decide you are not worried about lead paint, but another buyer may have small children and a lead paint inspection might be important to them.
- What you decide to inspect will be decided by what is important to you.
Keep in mind, no house is perfect, but if an issue does arise...DON'T PANIC! You have options! You can try to negotiate having the seller do the needed repairs before you close, renegotiate the price or even walk away from the house. Just keep in mind, there are deadlines and time frames in your contract for resolving inspection issues, but your agent should keep you on track.
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The bottom line is that spending a few hundred dollars before you close on a home could save you thousands later!
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