Homebuyers get bolder: Inspections used to boost demands
March 31, 2008 by Deborah Boza-Va... commentYou should hear what people say behind Scott LeMarr’s back. He’s a Muskego, Wis.-based home inspector who operates Honest Home Inspections LLC. House hunters call him in to examine a house they want to buy, and his job is to sniff out impending collapse of expensive necessities like the heating system, major appliances, the roof and so on.
While he’s inspecting away, the buyers often speculate about what they’d like to change about the house and how they might get the sellers to cave in to their demands. “I look at structural and mechanical, but I hear them talking: ‘This carpet is the wrong color, maybe we can get them to put new carpet in,’” says LeMarr. “Women run around with a tape measure saying, ‘we can change this’ and men are concerned with the mechanicals.” The rest of this story....
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