Choosing a Home Inspector in Silicon Valley
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Whether you’re preparing to sell a home or are in contract to purchase a home in Silicon Valley, you likely will be faced with the prospect of hiring professionals to inspect your home. This can run hundreds of dollars, a thousand dollars or more. The potential liability, though, could be much higher than the cost of paying the professionals to inspect your home, so you’ll want to hire very carefully.
What do you need to know when hiring inspectors in Silicon Valley?
There are specialized inspectors for particular elements of residential real estate, such as termite or pest inspectors, chimney inspectors, and others. Most of these are licensed by the state of California, and they are allowed to do repairs on the work they find needing.
But not home (or property) inspectors. There’s no license for doing home inspections in California. Is that good or bad? Part of that package is that they cannot do any repairs on defects they may detect. You can see why it’s good to separate finding problems from being paid to fix them. That’s the plus. There is another side, though.
April 22, 2008 | Filed under: Silicon Valley News



