You no Bill, you could impart this good information to a much wider audience if you did the blind handyman show and told of your misfortunes.
Phil Parr. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Gallik To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] house questions Linda writes: > Before you buy a house make sure you have a licensed home inspector go over every inch of it. Linda is offering extremely sound advice here. When Carol and I bought our home in Wheaton we declined to hire a home inspector and I still rue the day I made that stupid decision. I may have saved $250 at the time but I spent multiples of that correcting problems that an independent home inspector could have pointed out to us. Yes, there were problems that would have caused me to not buy that particular house. And the idea of an independent inspector is likewise very sound, the more real estate agents dislike the inspector the higher the likelihood that he or she is find problems that have broken deals in the past. Problems are to e anticipated in any home resale, but too often folks want to sell a horribly run-down house as if there were nothing wrong with it and the realty industry promotes because they get a percentage of the selling price. There's no incentive for a realtor to look out for the buyer. ---------------- Bill Gallik E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?" - Charles M. Schulz [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
