Homeowners should call for a free groundwater drainage assessment, in their part of the world, prior to listing their home on the market for sale.
This can save everyone a lot of money and time, as well as… prevent complications when new home buyers are anxiously trying to get the home financed to meet a closing date specified in the earnest money agreement they signed to buy the home.
Home sellers, in this example, have likely bought another home too, subject to them getting money from the first home escrow closing to pay for it.
These sellers can be left with nothing, if they drop the ball and wind up losing the home transaction, which eventually prevents them from closing on their new home purchase as well.
This can all be prevented of course, if pockets are packed deep with cash, but still not the way the buyers would have liked to have purchased the property. Sure, they can do the repairs, and then put a loan on the home, but that is something perhaps they do not wish to do, unless they absolutely need to, in order to save the home deal.
If the lender won’t finance it with the existing home drainage conditions, and no one has the money to spend on it, the deal is over.
If you are a home buyer, inspect the home you wish to buy for home drainage in mind yourself, and do it early, before you are under pressure and writing an earnest money agreement.
Identify areas that will likely be written up during a pest dry rot and structural home inspection using the information that you get from this site, before you determine if you want to write that earnest money agreement to buy it.
This is very smart logic, with results both in the short term and the long term.
Home inspectors don’t miss much when it comes to inspecting crawl spaces and basements.
Statements that some, if not most home inspectors make about home drainage while performing inspections, or within their home inspection reports themselves should not be taken seriously.
Home inspectors often come up with non-sense that further detracts from a home buyers home drainage problem reality, as it applies at the home they are looking at to buy, and they often produce unsolicited advice on groundwater drainage solutions as well.
These home drainage spouting home inspectors should not be listened to, what so ever.
They are many times trying to steer business to their pals, the sump pump guys.
They work quite well together, and together can become a powerful home drainage revenue builder, for the sump pump company, if he has lots of home inspectors working for him, in the manner I further disclose in future articles on this site.
In general, home inspectors in Oregon are articulate, kind, informed professionals, who crawl around in crawl spaces for a living by choice, doing us a great service.
In some climates home inspectors are subjected to creatures that can hurt them as well, further insulating those homeowners from harm.
As a group, in my opinion, Oregon home inspectors are to be respected and appreciated for their hard work.
They sometimes have work loads that take time to catch up, but due to the home inspectors well documented, every time, planned information delay, again they fall short of someone to be trusted with the funds of widows and orphans to say the very least.
I have addressed some of the problems I have with the way they operate in many articles on this site, because it is necessary, not because I am out of material to write about.
Enough is enough. This crap has been going on for decades. Do these guys think they are the New York Mafia? I know some of these guys to be very bold and stupid, from my perspective.
This problem of a hidden agenda existing between conflicting interest parties, the sump pump installers and the home inspectors, who want to keep it quite too, is really a smelly affair in my opinion.
The addition of this subject to an article on why you should inspect home drainage prior to marketing your home seems odd to some, I am sure. However, this subject is the cat that will be let out of the bag to ransack your mind and finances when the deal is in escrow, and you find yourself locked into buying a home with a home drainage problem no one can afford to solve.
The lender says ok to the loan in the end, after the buyers sign off on the conditions, and the buyers perhaps get a few bucks back in their pockets at escrow closing from the home sellers, to compensate them for buying into, and getting stuck with, through the home homeowners not knowing about the problem prior, a home drainage problem that will continue forever.
That can be a long time I hear.