What is a Home Inspection?
Helping you buy with confidence.

A professional home inspection is an objective, detailed visual assessment of a property’s structure and operating systems. Once a home inspection is performed, you’ll receive a detailed report describing the condition of your home and recommending any repairs or improvements that should be made. Buyers will use the home inspection report to inform their negotiating and purchasing decisions about your home.Every prospective homeowner is advised to have thorough home inspections done by professionals before purchasing a home. A home inspection can protect you from incurring unexpected costs after completing the purchase. Also, by identifying any problems up front you can often convince the seller to either fix the problems or reimburse the buyer for the cost of repairs before the purchase is completed.

The most common inspections are an overall home inspection, which evaluates the home’s structural and mechanical condition, and a pest inspection, which looks for pest and moisture damage. However, these reports may highlight issues that should be investigated by a specialized professional (e.g., a roofer or plumber).

At the conclusion of the home inspection, the home buyer should be well informed and should know the condition of the home; the inspection should be followed up with the inspectors written home inspection report. If anything is wrong, the home buyer should know what needs to be done to correct problems (or safety hazards), what repair alternatives are available, what priorities to assign to the problems, which repair costs are significant or minor, which costs are non-essential improvements, home inspections are visual and there is always a risk of concealed damage, further destructive investigation is sometimes needed.

Although some home inspection companies will provide you with a pre-printed hand written checklist at the conclusion of the home inspection these boiler plate formats often do not provide the level of detail and advice and that a formal detailed written home inspection report can provide. It is easy for the home inspector to check off good, fair, poor, acceptable, or not acceptable, but it is another thing to describe what’s wrong, why its wrong, and what needs to be done about it. Anybody can check off a form that indicates that a stairway is tilting, but a written home inspection report by a Licensed Professional Engineer can tell you why the stairway is tilting and what needs to be done about it. Remember, only a Professional Engineer is licensed to make professional engineering judgments and provide you with a professional engineer’s design for remedial repair.

Carefully read your home inspection report and make a list of items that need correction; this will help you to determine your future expenditures for repairs and maintenance. The report contains useful information that serves as a reference for you in the future. A home can not fail an inspection, the home inspection report records the condition of the home, both positives and negatives.

If you have questions regarding your inspection report, feel free to contact me.

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​CHR Inspections will examine your house or property from top to bottom. Prompt and flexible service designed to meet tight deadlines. We understand the Dallas Fort Worth Real Estate market and will do what ever we can to meet your contract needs.

All of our Home Inspection Reports are written in "plain English" and easy to understand, no confusing "technical jargon" so that you know what you are reading. Exceeding the standards set by the Texas Real Estate Commission and they are computer generated on the proper Texas state forms and are VA, FHA, and HUD compliant.
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Usually the Home Buyer is limited from 5 to 10 days to get a home inspection. I highly recommend that you schedule it as quickly as possible. Often times you may need to get quotes or bids from other professionals as a result of what I find. This will also take additional time so don't put yourself in the situation of being rushed.

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