Home inspection: The hidden horrors
“Home inspections are a routine part of the home-buying process, but not every home problem is routine.
Ron and Julie Kirchgessner of Greenwood, Ind., certainly wish they’d phoned a few more experts.
Their inspector declared the two-story brick home one of the soundest construction jobs he’d seen, and the home withstood a tornado in the first six months. But the in-ground swimming pool was on its last legs and the 17 trees on the property struggle with diseases. Both troubled areas fall outside the routine — the American Society of Home Inspectors’ standards for certification.
So the Kirchgessners sunk nearly $10,000, all unbudgeted, into their home — money they believe they could have knocked off the price of the home. “
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