To inspect or not to inspect?
Ok, so obviously buying a home is a BIG purchase! Like thousands of dollars, so the idea of spending MORE money can become overwhelming. Since the start of construction we had gone back and forth as to whether we should get a home inspector for the pre- drywall meeting. I mentioned getting an inspector to my realtor and he didn’t seem to think it was necessary. However, I had read so much online about why it was important to have an inspection completed before the drywall goes up. If I’m completely honest, there were so many horrible reviews I started to get nervous. This is our first home, our first time building a home, and while I am very particular and notice everything, I do not know anything about building a house. But I’m thinking, I mean seriously, it’s a brand new house, they couldn’t possibly find something wrong; this was me talking myself out of spending more money. And then I realized that this is the biggest purchase of my life, what’s a couple hundred dollars. So being assured that our new home was good was worth the money. We decided to hire Jason Daley Home Inspections here in Tennessee. He was very easy to communicate with and affordable. The inspection was completed on a Tuesday and we received our home inspection report on Wednesday. The things that were found were not alarming and by the time we went to our pre-drywall meeting our PM had already began to repair the items from the report. I can honestly say that I am happy that we decided to get the home inspection completed. I would like to think that the things that needed repairing would have been fixed anyway, but then again I don’t know for sure. I know it seems like a bit of a burden to have to spend more money, but having that peace of mind is priceless. I would much rather pay to ensure that nothing is wrong versus not paying and something major is wrong, that I have no idea about. The quality of the builds is debatable, but you have to also realize that they are built by humans, and are subject to mistakes and oversights.
