do you have to have inspections for buying a house?? a mobile home??

Answer 1

No, but you want to. Good housing inspectors are worth every dime you pay them. They should have been detectives, the stuff they turn up on a house is amazing. Not only can they set your mind at ease that you are not buying a "lemon" - they can tell you what health and safety hazards exist, and what you may want to start saving for a few years down the road.

Answer 2

It depends on your mortgage company. Some require it, others give you the option of opting out.
In my opinion, after having inspections done on both home I've sold and bought - I will never waste my money on them again. I suggest only getting a bug inspection if you don't know all the signs. Other than that, anyone will a brain can look around and see problems with a home.
We just sold our home and the buyers had a home inspection - the guy was a complete moron! He took a lopsided picture of the outside A/C unit and said the unit was crooked! The stupid picture was crooked!
Then he took a picture of the back french door and said 'no screen door' - it didn't even have one when we bought it - and what on earth does that have to do with the safety of the house? Then there was a 10 year old water stain and the inspector pointed out 'past water damage' lol Like duh!
I'm telling you, they are a waste of time and money.

Answer 3

If you are financing the home, then yes. Any mortgage company will require the inspection before they will agree to the financing. It does not matter if you have lived in the house for 20 years and now everything about the house, they will require it.

A good inspector will review 200-300 items/spaces in your house, many of which you may have never even seen (looked in the attic or crawl space recently?)

For the $250, you get a pretty good piece of mind before laying down thousands on some property.

Answer 4

You don't have to have an inspection but i really would suggest that you get one. You want to know what you are dealing with and the 300,-- +/- for the inspection is good invested. A good home inspection will check the whole house and most of them will find hidden defects as well. It can safe you a lot of headaches

Answer 5

You should definitely get a home inspection before buying a house.

Answer 6

Not as far as I know ... people do it so they're aware of possible problems (this usually becomes a price lowering affect as well) If an inspector comes in and says it looks like there's a need for an electrical upgrade (for example) they buyer will try to negotiate a lower price or request it be upgraded. But not all inspectors are perfect, the buyer for our house hired one (I think he liked us better than the buyers because there were some problems and he never gave it to them in their report) So be nice and friendly with the inspector and hopefully he'll work better for you. But they're looking for things like problems with roofing, electrical, water damage, code violations, old / worn items or areas, and things of that nature ... it's really to let the buyer be aware of what they're buying, but you can choose not to hire one.

It may depend on your area, but I know people who haven't bothered with them as well ... the value of the house is set by other homes equal to each other in a given area, and as long as the home you're buying isn't above and beyond that price range, and that is what the finance companies go by when lending out money, that's always been my understanding

Answer 7

Whether you have to or not, you CERTAINLY SHOULD! Why would you not want a professional to let you know in advance about any flaws? Especially with a mobile home.

Yikes!

Answer 8

never, never buy a house without an inspection
new build or pre-owned

Answer 9

the seller usually has to have all the inspections done and not the buyer.