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How To Hire a Great Home Inspector - Home Inspection Tips - YouTube
Channel: Tampa Real Estate Expert
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Hi everyone. It's your Tampa Bay Realtor
Lance Mohr and in this video I want to talk
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about how to hire a great home inspector
I know this is really hard when you're
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looking at buying a new home or a
pre-owned home if you don't know a home
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inspector but I'm going to talk about
what you need to do to make sure you get
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a really really good home inspector
that's gonna rip the home apart that's
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what I'm going to talk about in this
short video I think when you're buying a
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home whether you're buying a pre-owned
home whether you're buying a new home
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you need to get the home inspected it
doesn't make any difference a lot of
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people think while I'm buying a
brand-new home what do I need to get the
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home inspection before why do I need a
home inspector well as I always say it's
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a new home it's not a perfect home so
get a home inspector but don't go out
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there and just get anybody and let me
give you example a while back I had one
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of my clients and they hired their own
home inspector and it was a 3,000
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square-foot home is about 10 years old
the inspector went out there and did the
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inspection in 55 minutes on a 3,000
square foot home I was shocked I
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couldn't believe it would take him nap
short of a time to do an inspection so
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it was curious I asked the buyer I saw
how much did you pay for the home
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inspection and he said $250 and they're
like oh well there you go
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see there's two types of inspectors in
my opinion number one is you have the
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the inspector that just goes out there
tries to cram as many appointments in a
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day as they can maybe they do in our
inspections or an hour and a half
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inspections they charge $250 or $200
they can knock out three or four of them
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a day and a lot of them do that there's
a lot of those out there that's not what
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you want you want someone you might have
to pay him a little bit more money or at
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least fair market rate but if you want
someone who's going to be in there a
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while if my inspector went out to that
3,000 square foot home he'd probably be
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there a good three and a half hours
maybe four hours just depending you want
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someone to go in you want to check out
the irrigation system you want them up
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on the roof you
crawlin through the attic you want them
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looking at everything home inspector is
pretty much at least in Florida they're
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licensed they're insured they're bonded
but you get what you pay for so I would
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say like my inspector he's four hundred
dollars he would approximate Weig let's
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say four to 450 on a 3,000 square-foot
home
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he probably would have been out there
around three and a half four hours maybe
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more I've talked to a mine 2,500 square
foot homes where he's been out there
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five hours before he only does one to
two inspections a day where this one was
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out there 55 minutes and it was 250
dollars so first off on how to hire an
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inspector you get what you pay for if
the going rates about 400 dollars and
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you're gonna pay 300 or 200 or something
like that you got a figure you're not
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going to get the most detailed inspector
out there now the other thing I would
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highly recommend doing now but of course
you might get the inspector from your
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real estate agent you might get them
from a family member from a friend from
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a co-worker but you want to do is ask
them for an inspection report so they
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should have an example inspection report
that they could give you so you could
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see how detailed it is do they go over
and above do they not only go through
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what's on the state form but that they
go through their own form do they take a
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lot of pictures that they give detailed
explanations what about when the
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inspectors done can the sewing agent
column or can you call them back I'm
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sure you can you should be able to can
the seller of the home column or is it
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just like hey we're one and done sorry
I'm on to my next inspection unit pay
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for a bunch of people to be calling me
so you got a really look at it like you
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get what you pay for but always do your
due diligence talk to people get an idea
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how long the inspector will generally be
there for the inspection and get a copy
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of one of their inspections so you could
see how detailed they are you can see
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what the inspection report looks like I
hope this video helps you if it does and
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you wipe this video please do me a favor
give
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and thumbs up so I know that if you have
any questions there you have anything
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you want to say leave them in the
comments below I'd love to hear from you
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I do these videos for you the home buyer
and the home seller so I hope this helps
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I hope you have a wonderful day if you
are in the tampa area and you're looking
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for a good aggressive agent don't
hesitate to reach out give me a call I
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would love to help you have a great day
goodbye
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you
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