Massachusetts Real Estate- Merrimack Valley
Real Estate in Essex and Northern Middlesex Counties, Massachusetts
You have spent months searching for the perfect home.... that cute house with the perfect yard.... now its time for the home inspection. Hopes were high, but you end up with a failed home inspection. Well not really, home inspections are not pass or fail. But, in your eyes that perfect home has failed the inspection. A home inspection is a visual inspection of a homes systems, including electrical, plumbing, heating, etc...., along with soundness of the structure and the … Continue reading...
No doubt about it, the real estate market is red hot. And, when the market is red hot, buyers compete for homes and want to strengthen their offers as much as possible. One way of strengthening an offer is to remove certain contingencies in the contract. To get the home you want, waiving your home inspection contingency may seem like a good idea. But waiving your home inspection can end up being a really costly mistake. I very rarely recommend giving up your … Continue reading...
Following is a re-post from Chrissy Doremus, US Inspect. Living here in New England Radon can be a big concern for home buyers looking to purchase a potential home. As a buyers agent, I highly recommend every home buyer do a radon inspection. Most home inspectors provide the service for an additional $50 to $100 dollars. Typically if we find high radon reading we ask the home seller to install a radon mitigation system to release a majority of the gas outside of the home. What I find … Continue reading...
