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When you bought your home, chances are pretty good that you paid a professional home inspector to check it out before you bought it. It may have been especially useful at the time in your decision regarding the home's value. But do you know what you did with the report once the purchase negotiations were completed?

Your home inspection is good for much more than simply a tool for negotiating adjustments to the sale price. Once you've purchased the home, the home inspector's report can be useful for prioritizing maintenance, improvements and upgrades that need to be made to your home. The report should have addressed all of the major systems and features of your home with indications regarding projected life expectancy (of the system). Some reports also include recommendations for maintenance to keep systems in working order.

Whether you've just bought your home or you bought it years ago, the inspector's report undoubtedly identified areas of your home which need some attention. Reviewing the report should give you some idea of what routine seasonal maintenance you need to do (or hire a professional to do). Since the report should cover all of the systems and significant features of your home, you can record on it (or a copy) the dates and expenditures for all work on your home. This becomes a handy reference for you, especially when you decide to sell your home.

We've been recommending for years now that home sellers pay for a professional home inspection when they list their home for sale. Regardless of the improvements you may have made, every home inspection will turn up at least some negatives. But, if you are diligent about your home maintenance and improvements and keep good records, you increase the likelihood that your home will have a favorable report. Home buyers are faced with so many good options in today's market, and they tend to prefer homes that have been well-maintained and are move-in ready.

So make the most of what you paid for and dig out your inspection report. Chances are, there are some areas of your home you haven't even thought of which will be easy to improve today, increasing the likelihood of an easier sale in the future.

Copyright ? Shawn Buryska

Home Inspection Report Software

You are now investing your hard earned money on a fixer-upper home because you think it will save you money plus the thrill of giving a house a make over gives you satisfaction once it is finished being renovated. You have chosen a nice location. You have found the right fixer-upper home that you think will sell at a reasonable price. But you are missing out on something – a home inspection.

Most of the time sellers of fixer-upper homes won’t be able to give you a written home inspection report because obviously the house is most likely to be in bad shape. If this is the case, it is important that you don’t do the inspection yourself, you need to hire a professional home inspector.

Why is a home inspection important when what you are buying is a fixer-upper home? Of course the house isn't in top condition. Why spend on professional inspection costs when you won’t be able to negotiate the seller to a lower price when you find problems to be fixed because they are selling it “as-is"?

Fixer-upper homes are of course “fixers". Most of the time there are many things to be changed. How will you know what needs to be fixed when you don't know what the problem is? This is where the importance of home inspection becomes apparent.

Professional home inspectors will find problems that the home buyers won’t notice. These professionals will do a more detailed and systematic inspection on the house and this includes electrical system like wiring and electric panel, indoor condition of the house like windows, doors, flooring, walls, the exterior condition of the house like lanais, garage and decks, plumbing and drainage.

Not only will a professional inspection of the fixer-upper home help you identify what the major problems of the house are, it will also help in minimizing risks and problems. Like if a house has major cracks in it that are invisible to the home buyers, this may be a major hazard and may cause the entire house to collapse in the future. Faulty electrical wiring that the home buyers took no notice of can also be dangerous and may cause short circuits.

If you are going to purchase and renovate a fixer-upper home, you don't want to have any problems and difficulties. You want everything to be smooth and flawless without worrying about anything. So have your fixer-upper home inspected.

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