We take pride in doing a thorough job for our clients. To help them make informed decisions for what can be a very daunting task, purchasing their next home. After doing so, we're not thrilled for them until we've completed the home inspection. Unbeknownst to us, the home inspection industry is not regulated. The role of the home inspector is crucial both in providing valuable information and providing a list of items to consider. If anything is missing or you are ill-informed you can decide to purchase a house with serious problems or walk away from a great house with a normal list of maintenance and repairs. It is as important to choose the right inspector as it is to choose the right real estate agent. The following advice is provided by T. E. Gordon Home Inspections Inc.
Buying a house may seem like an endless series of critical and important decisions. When you do find the house that is right for you, you need to find a home inspector to educate you about the condition of your new home. This is a wise decision, even when buying a newly constructed home; the additional peace of mind that a professional home inspection offers is invaluable.
It’s important to hire a knowledgeable, experienced and competent home inspector. Anyone can say that they are a home inspector without having taken any courses, passed tests or even inspected houses. So look for a home inspector who:
Professionally trained home inspectors are committed to conducting inspections in accordance with their association’s Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics and are dedicated to providing superior customer service. A copy of their association’s Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics should be made available to you. It is important to understand what a home inspection is and is not.
A home inspection is a visual inspection, it is non-invasive, (no holes will be cut in walls, ceilings or floors) or technically exhaustive. A home inspection is a visual inspection stating the type and condition of various components of the dwelling. Your inspection should include an assessment of at least the following:
Your home inspector should encourage to follow along and ask questions during the inspection, he or should be willing to answer questions concerning your purchase even after you move in.
T. E. Gordon Home Inspections Inc. is pleased to provide this information, if you have further questions please contact our office.
improvements, it's important to know current demands to make your home more desirable. According to a new Ipsos Reid poll, Canadian homeowners have indicated a wish list, highlighting some of the things they’d like to have in their ideal home. The following are some of the things on the wish list:The type of heating in the home can have a significant impact on air quality. One in three (34%) homeowners say that someone in their household suffers from allergies due to dust or other air-born allergens, and a quarter (24%) say that someone who regularly visits their house (a friend or relative) suffers from allergies due to dust or other air-born allergies. Couple these statistics with the fact that a majority (56%) of homeowners report having a pet, and it’s not surprising that seven in ten (71%) of those who have an allergy sufferer in their home believe that the air circulation system in their home contributes to those allergies (26% a great deal/45% somewhat). Most (83%) homeowners ‘agree’ (31% strongly/52% somewhat) that they wish the air in their home could be cleaner.
Many obstacles appear to get in the way of achieving some of these ideal goals. Three quarters (72%) of homeowners say that some areas of their home are hotter or colder than others, while four in ten (41%) note that they have bulkheads or duct-work in their basement that makes the room smaller, or makes their ceiling lower.
When building or renovating a home, four in ten (39%) homeowners believe that things like having areas of the house that are colder or hotter than others gets in the way of achieving an ideal living space, while a similar proportion says the same about duct work and bulkheads that make the room an odd shape and decrease the amount of useful space (35%). Three in ten (30%) are frustrated by air vents located in odd places, while just four in ten (38%) say that none of these things gets in the way of achieving an ideal living space.
Ipsos Reid poll conducted by Ipsos Reid on behalf of Beautiful Heat from September 19-26, 2011. For this survey, a national sample of 1,003 homeowners from Ipsos' Canadian online panel was interviewed online.
It has always been the assumption that Spring/Summer is the best time to put your house on the market. When looking quickly at the statistics for the most recent 12 months it's easy to make that assumption but I'm always wondering about the probabilites so I took a different look at them. December demonstrates the higher probability of selling than any other time of the year with October and November showing as high as June and August. Ironically, the Spring was the worst time to sell. I"m curious to know if this has always been the case or if like the weather, it's not as predictible as it once was.
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