Thinking of ways to cut costs when buying a home? Don’t make it with home inspection!

Trying to save money on a home inspection is precisely what you should not do!

There are times when we can exercise a Home Inspection as per a condition stated in theoffer of purchase and sale. This is not happening many times with multiple offers since those offers are usually unconditional. Yet, in these cases we can have a home inspector at the house prior to offer presentation or later on when we successfully win the biding war.

But make no mistake, a home inspection must be conducted by a qualified home inspector and by no means should this be your cousin, extended family member, your neighbour or the handyman specialist your sister recommended!

A home inspector should be a member of a professional home inspector association, must carry errors and omissions and general liability insurance. In other words, he should know what needs to be checked and should have the ability and tools to do so. Furthermore, a home inspector’s report handout can be useful later on should there be a need for clarification.

Please note; if your home inspector shows up without a ladder…then you know you are off to a bad start.

Come out and play....

So...I am celebrating my second year of blogging. Congratulations to me! And today...I want to bring you, my readers, a little something different.

We are in the middle of the winter where we are bombarded by grays, blues, darkness and very cold weather. Not the ideal situation for eliciting happy and cheerful sentiments.

Do we create more tasks or participate in more activities to overload our daily schedules thus not paying attention to the outdoors?
Do we embrace the weather with new accessories?
Do we make an effort to come up for air from our daily routines?
ABSOLUTELY...and probably yes to all of the above.

For those of you who are not able to take a trip; reading by the fireplace, walking downtown with a friend or alone, sitting at a coffee shop enjoying a hot tea are all fabulous solutions to nurturing this need. In my case, a little retail therapy always hits the spot. In essence; stopping to smell the roses, metaphorically speaking...is comforting.

We all need a break to recharge our energy, enthusiasm and spirits...just do what you need to do to feel good during this time of post holiday depression.