Buying or Selling a Home

Whether you’re doing either, you naturally want the transaction to be as worry free and smooth as possible, and the last thing either party wants is an unfavorable report from a Building Inspector.  Let us take some of the burden here with our Free Ethical Inspection.

Usually in conjunction with your realtor, using digital cameras and camcorders, we’ll undertake a thorough and detailed inspection of the Crawlspace, Vapor Barrier and Insulation before the Building Inspector gets so much of a look in, thereby highlighting and eliminating any possible unfavorable conditions that may impact the sale of any given home.  While the obvious problems such as plumbing issues or poor electrics are the ones that spring to mind, one of the most common reasons a house fails inspection is a sub-standard Crawlspace, a scenario that can often, at a reasonable cost, be easily avoided.  Given that many homeowners who are about to sell often don’t what red flags lurk in their Crawlspace, once a Building Inspector gets down there, they maybe be shooting themselves in the foot.  Obviously any would be seller wants to create a good impression with any would be buyer, and the latter is looking for minimal fuss when it comes to purchasing their new home.  The last thing either party wants to discover in the Crawlspace is 300lbs of post construction debris left over from the 1970’s, a disheveled, torn or missing Vapor Barrier and/or a full blown rodent infestation coupled with soiled Insulation stemming from their presence.

In isolation, the above scenario(s) may not create a serious hurdle for either prospective buyer or seller, but if a Building Inspector should discover issues with, say, the roof or the foundation, this, coupled with a potential Crawlspace problem, may turn an otherwise viable and desirable home into a ‘problem’ home – the seller doesn’t sell and the buyer walks away from a home they had their heart set on due to completely avoidable and needless Crawl space concerns.  The last thing any prospective home seller wants is the alarming prospect of having to ‘sit’ on an unsold house longer than necessary.  This can be as costly as it is inconvenient.

And given that the cost of the vast majority of our work considerably outweighs the financial alternative of either an unsold home or greater structural problems down the road, it really is a case of ‘Spending a dime to save a dollar.’  And as we offer a comprehensive 12-month Guarantee on all our work, automatically transferable at no additional charge to any new homeowner, you have nothing to lose by letting us brave your Crawlspace.