Making offers and attending walk-thrus and home inspections
June 20th, 2008 Categories: Odds and Ends
It’s going to be a very busy Friday. I have two walk-thrus to attend, a home inspection, and a offer on a relocation property to negotiate. Relocation offers are very time consuming and the relocation companies do everything they can to strip away my buyer’s rights and protection that are provided in our standard North Carolina offer to purchase and contract. This is going to consume a good bit of mental bandwith. More on relocation offers and negotiations in another article.
One walk-thru is for my personal home. That’s right, the Realtor just purchased a new home. I think all Realtors should be required to do this every few years. I now have a fresh, very personal appreciation for what my clients go through when purchasing a new home.
One big surprise along the way was that we found high radon levels and had that remediated. It figures that with all the warnings I write about this subject that I would buy a house with high radon levels myself. Actually, this part of the process hasn’t been too bad. The local remediation company is great and they know exactly what they are doing. I’ll have to do an article with all the details of the process in the next few weeks.
And of course here we are a few days from closing and there is still more on the builder’s punch list that I would like for there to be. I’ll have to admit that part is fairly stressful. I’m seeing first hand the challenge that any builder faces with their sub contractors and getting them to correct what appear to be simple issues. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Hey… that’s okay though… we’re almost there and have a great builder who is on top of everything. And as I mentioned, it’s great experience for me as a Realtor to get this fresh peek at the process from the perspective of the home buyer.
Well, back to work for now. Have an awesome weekend!
I imagine that can be an eye opener. I was watching how the subcontractors were working on a site the other day, while the builder was trying to oversee a situation at another home. They were trying to take advantage of the situation, and making it look like they completed a job, when they had not. Good luck with your home!
Thanks Frank. You’re right, some of the things the subs do just don’t make any sense. You would think they would learn after a while that poor workmanship, when inspected by a professional, or even a home owner who knows what they are looking at, will just have to be done over.