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What does a B4U Close Home Inspection Cost?
B4U Close Home Inspections are not the cheapest, nor are we the most expensive, Home Inspectors in the area. If a price difference of $5.00 or $100.00 is a bigger consideration than the inspector's training, experience, professional association, abilities, or reporting system, perhaps the person should re-evaluate whether or not they can afford the closing costs and thousands of dollars on a property that may turn out to have significant repair or maintenance issues.
A professional service is not like which grocery store has the cheapest can of tomato sauce. Professional service fees are based on training, abilities, communication, continuing education, professional association, experience and reporting style and system..
For a Home Inspector to spend an hour or so at the property, and hand you a pre-printed checklist with a few boxes checked (identifying problems they managed to find in that short time), expect to spend about $150.00. The Home Inspector will leave happy and you will have managed to save a few bucks.
Will you still be happy with the money you saved when, two months after you move in, the roof leaks due to a defective flashing that the cheapest inspector failed to notice, or the plumbing floods your basement due to a common defect that the inspector should have found?
There are easy economical fixes to both of these problems, IF you know about them ahead of time. When you find out about them after damage has occurred, not only do you have to repair the cause, you also have to repair the damage caused by the failures.
A Professional Home Inspector can, and usually does, save a Buyer or Seller several hundred, if not thousands of dollars when negotiating the price of the sale.
EXAMPLES from both perspectives::
Buyers: Your professional inspector finds small clues that foretell future foundation damage that will need expensive repairs. (Professional home inspectors know about these clues because, unlike the cheap quickie inspector, they attend continuing education and spend time staying informed of new issues.) Foundation repairs can cost several thousand dollars. You should expect to get a reduction in the price of the property to cover this unexpected expense. Compare the cost of the professional home inspection to this cost. Was it worth the extra dollars for the professional home inspection?
Sellers: What happens when your professional pre-listing inspection reveals the small clues that foretell future foundation damage. You are in control. You decide how to fix it, or what adjustment to make in the price of your home, before listing it.. It doesn't come up as a last minute surprise resulting in stressful, hurried negotiations and thousands of dollars in price reductions.. You have already taken care of it, disclosed the issue and the repair, and taken it into consideration when you set the price of your home. If you lean toward having a cheap quickie inspection, just so you can say the property is "pre-inspected", don't waste your money. When the buyer's professional inspector finds the advanced problems missed by your quickie inspector, you'll need the money to make repairs.
The cost of a B4U Close home inspection varies based on the following information:
Size of the house
Crawl Space, Basement, or slab
Number of bathrooms
Number of Air Conditioning/Heating Systems
Outbuildings or recreational facilites included or not included in the inspection.
As we service a large area, the distance we have to travel to get to the property may also play into the cost.
A technically exhaustive inspection can cost several thousand dollars as specialists in each area of the home's systems are called in to dismantle, measure and evaluate each system. An inspection of this depth is not usually necessary during a residential real estate transaction.
A generalist inspection costs significantly less depending on what exactly is inspected, along with the conditions noted above.
Our inspection takes approximately two to four hours. We provide a professional inspection and a computer generated written report, customized to your property. We summarize the problem areas and provide a photo album of the problem areas to help specialists and others involved to readily identify those problem areas. We also will provide, at your request, a copy of the report summary for your real estate agent's use in discussing repair issues with the necessary individuals. In addition we provide other information as listed on our web site.
Samples of our inspection report are available on this web site.
Please call or e-mail us with your information to obtain the price of a professional home inspection.
Whatever your decision, don't buy a home without a Professional Home Inspection.
B4U Close Home Inspections 502-570-4054
E-Mail: Inspector@b4uclose.com