Hiring the Right Home Inspector for the Job

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When hiring a home inspector, you are going to have a wide variety of choices. Before hiring a home inspector, you need to make sure they are part of a home inspector’s association, such as ASHI SunCoast. When an inspector is part of a home inspectors association, you will get the peace of mind that you have a home inspector that knows what they are doing and has the right credentials for the job.

Type of Job Needed

Before you hire your next home inspector, you need to make sure that the inspector has knowledge on the type of job that you are looking for them to do for you. You need to make sure that the inspector has inspected the type of property that you have. You also need to make sure that the inspector has experience in the type of thing you are looking for. For example, if you know you have termite damage, you need to make sure that this is something that they have some type of experience in.

Ask Questions

It is important that you ask your home inspector questions about their experience before you hire them, besides relying on them being a part of a home inspectors association. But besides asking different questions to your possible next home inspector, you also need to make sure that you are asking questions once you hire the home inspector to inspect your property. You need to ask questions once the home inspector arrives on your property. You should also ask questions the entire time that the inspector is inspecting the property for you. If you do not ask questions, you are not going to know the answers. You should take advantage of the inspector being on your property and make sure to get as much as valuable information you can get from them regarding your property.

Walk Through

If at all possible, you should stay with the inspector the entire time they are inspecting your property. Yes, your inspector is going to give you a paper write-up of everything that they find but it is best to be there the entire the inspector is on your property. You want to make sure that the inspector is really inspecting the entire property and not skipping out on any valuable part of the home that you want to make sure is inspected completely and accurately.

After the Inspection

After your property has been inspected, the home inspector will give you a detailed write-up of the entire property. It is very important that you use this information correctly. If you are selling the property, you may want to fix these items before you have possible buyers looking at your property. If you are intending to purchase the property, this is something that you need to have the owner fix before you purchase the property. There are also many people that do not intend to buy or sell the property but they are just interested in getting their home inspected.