Not allowed to get excited yet BUT

[BitsnBearsMom]

we have accepted an offer on our house and are just waiting for the inspection on Thursday. Really what can they find wrong with a 7yo house!?

Looks like we'll be moving into the new house (picked brick colour on the weekend ) on Aug 21 - I'll have 6 weeks to get settled before our trip.... I'm sure by then we'll need it!!

so nice to be able to tell the lawn turkeys that keep wanting to give me a quote to buzz off.... I'm MOVING!!

 

[OnMedic]

Bits...

Where do you live? We are going through the same process ourselves. Ours is on the market, as is my SIL, and they just accepted a firm offer today!

We are moving t (planning to at least) to Waterloo and will be building beside my SIL, as both our sets of kids are similar age and will love growing up next to each other. We will also love the reciprocal childcare!

Congrats!

 

[RoyalCanadian]

we have accepted an offer on our house and are just waiting for the inspection on Thursday. Really what can they find wrong with a 7yo house!?

I had a home inspector find a whole lot of stuff wrong with a 1yo house -- water seeping into the cold room; insulation in the ceiling below code; attic ventilation below code. We withdrew our offer on the house as the inspection revealed unsatisfactory conditions in the home that the owner was either unwilling or unable to rectify. There could be a whole lot wrong with your home about which you have no clue. Builders, contractors and sub-contractors are notorious for cutting corners in order to save themselves money. Unfortunately a lot of the problems end up buried behind finished drywall or underneath tonnes of cement.

If I were to contract with a builder for the construction of a new home I wouldn't think twice about paying $500 to my favourite home inspector to be constantly inspecting the house throughout construction.

Good luck with the offer on your home.

 

[sammi]

We sold our 28 yr old home last April to a young man who had already put in an offer on a 5 year old home only to have it fail the home inspection and that brought him to our home and it passed with flying colours. So hope everything goes well with you and congratulations!

We bought a newly built home and we are loving it living in the country!

 

[tinkerbeth]

Good luck with your move! It's so stressful selling and buying and moving...we moved last may and I have no memory of it at all...one day I said to dh, "I can't remember anything about when we moved!" I'm convinced I've blocked it out. STRESSFUL. I told dh we're never moving again until we retire to the city. I think we're the only people in Ontario who are going to move TO Toronto to retire! I figure if we sell our house and cash everything in, we *might* be able to afford 500,000 for a semi near the Danforth by then...

Hope everything goes well with your inspection!

Beth

 

[Scratch42]

Good Luck!

janet

 

[BitsnBearsMom]

AKKK now I'm going to be having nightmares of the house not passing from now till Thursday afternoon!!

Dh went over it with a fine tooth comb before putting it on the market and everything seemed ok them. hopefully he was right!!

hurry up Thursday!!!

 

[RoyalCanadian]

AKKK now I'm going to be having nightmares of the house not passing from now till Thursday afternoon!!

Dh went over it with a fine tooth comb before putting it on the market and everything seemed ok them. hopefully he was right!!

hurry up Thursday!!!

Our home inspector (we've used him 3 times and bought 2 homes based on his reports) told us there is a trend towards homesellers having a house inspection done on the home prior to listing.

I'm not sure of your DH's qualifications and standards, but the fine tooth comb that I would have used would have allowed through so many faults. Our home inspector quite literally covers the house from top to bottom, pointing out code violations in plumbing, electrical and structural components of the house as well as "cosmetic" violations -- things that could have been done in order to make the house "Better" but aren't required under code and "violations" that are now required under code but weren't required when the house was built. Any inspection that doesn't last around 3 hours isn't a half-decent inspection.

I would never purchase a home without having a home inspection done by a RHI -- and especially if the house is a new construction. Builders are infamous for walking away from new construction leaving all sorts of work undone or improperly done.

 

[Disney_Mama]

Don't worry. I just sold my 10 year old home and no problems. Bought a 12 year old home and it passed the home inspection with flying colours. Good luck.

 

[explorer1977]

We just sold our home (16 years old) and are building a new one right now (framing is all done yippie ). We had no problems with the inspection at all as I just listed what I new was wrong with the house on the disclosure (roof needed to be replaced). We ended up selling the home for almost full asking price (just the cost to of the roof was reduced in the offer but we added that to the listing price so yay) and a contractor with a home inspection backround actually bought it. I know what you are feeling though, the wait is a killer.