Helping families with their largest purchase since 1988
Whether you are buying, selling, or building your new home or commercial building AAA Inspection Services LLC is here to help. Purchasing real estate can be fun and exciting but it also has the potential for being an enormous anchor around your neck ... and your checkbook. If you haven't seen the movie "The Money Pit" with Tom Hanks and Shelly Long we highly recommend it to you. It is a very funny movie ... but it would not be funny if it happened to you and your family. In the movie there is a couple who thought they found the "home of their dreams". In a short time the home actually turned into their "nightmare of a lifetime".
The house was freshly painted. Flowers, manicured grounds, and the smell of freshly baked cookies was in the air. It was a dream come true. The couple fell in love with the house. What the buyers failed to do was have a reputable, highly experienced, and unbiased real estate inspection firm like AAA Inspection Services LLC evaluate the house. There was a myriad of unknown and undisclosed problems with the house. Foundation problems, electrical problems, plumbing problems, roof problems ... the list went on and on.
Now the movie is an extreme example of what can go wrong with what is usually the largest investment a family will make in their lifetime. If even one of these issues present themselves the purchase can go from a really well priced deal to a seemingly bottomless pit of repair money.
Let's face it. The credit market isn't what it once was. Almost gone are the "nothing down" loans. The lending institutions now require almost all buyers to put up large down payments. What most people want to do when they move into their new house is to spend money turning it into their new home. Spending money on new paint for the interior of the house. Spending money on new carpets, draperies ... maybe even a new flat screen tv for the living room. What you don't want to be spending money on is for a new hot water heater, a new roof, replacing windows, plumbing repairs, or even foundation and structural repairs.
If you don't investigate for the things that need to be repaired how will you know if there is enough in the repair allowance in the contract to cover items in need of repair? If you don't hire a reputable, highly experienced and unbiased company like AAA Inspection Services LLC to work for you ... how can you know if you and your family are buying the "dream home" or the "money pit"? The numbers can look good on paper but without knowing the true condition of the house how can you negotiate to make a wise decision for your families future?
There is good news in all of this though. If you do your due diligence and have your new home inspected by a reputable, highly experienced, and unbiased company such as AAA Inspection Services LLC you can avoid most if not all of these scenarios. Typically there is an allowance in the contract for repair items. Sometimes the items found are major items that are thousands of dollars to repair such as a roof.
As an example there have been occasions where the home owner was unaware that there was hail damage to the roof and it needed to be replaced. After the house was inspected by AAA Inspection Services LLC the seller had the opportunity to file a claim with the current insurance company and get a new roof. This scenario benefits everyone but especially the home buyer. The seller doesn't have to be out the expense of paying for a new roof or lowering the price of the home to cover the cost of a new roof. The buyer doesn't get stuck with a roof in need of repair or replacement. The buyer essentially gets a new roof from the insurance company.
The previous scenario can play out a different way also. Suppose the house was not inspected and no one was aware of the defects in the roofing system. The sale of the house closes and your family moves in. Some time after move in you develop a leak in your roofing system. You call the current insurance company. The insurance company comes out to evaluate the roofing system and determines there was previous damage to the roof. The claim is denied as no insurance company will pay for damage that happened prior to their policy going into effect. The expense then falls to the new owner to pay for all of the repairs.
Unfortunately the previous description happens all too often. Don't let this happen to your family.
Call 505.222.3115 and schedule your families future home to be inspected by AAA Inspection Services LLC before your inspection period in your contract expies.
Just because things may be found deficient on the house is not necessarily reason not to purchase the house. Most deficiencies can be easily corrected and there is normally an allowance set aside for repairs. If the allowance for repairs is not high enough then your Real Estate Agent can help you to negotiate for the repairs to be covered. Having items in need of repair or items that need updating is not he end of the world. Items can almost always be easily fixed.
What an inspection with AAA Inspection Services LLC provides for you is the necessary information about the house so you can make an informed decision concerning your families largest investment and future. The buyers know what they are buying. The sellers know what they are selling. The agents have as close to full disclosure as possible. With this important information in the easy to read but thorough report all sides can negotiate for allowances, repairs to be made, and the price negotiated in good faith.
Call 505.222.3115 and schedule your new home to be inspected with AAA Inspection Services LLC before your inspection period in your contract expires.