Buying a home can be one of the best feelings in a person’s life. That feeling when you know it’s yours and to know in your heart this is where your family will be safe. Before you can get to that feeling you need to understand if your home is truly safe? Well sorry to tell you but this is one of those cases where it pays to spend the extra money.
Sarah Little from Syracuse NY still remembers purchasing her first home. She had just graduated college and the market was doing well. This was in 1991. Unfortunately for Sarah as a recent college graduate who had used up most of her money on the house, she decided to hire a cheap home inspector. Sadly that mistake would come back to haunt Sarah the next year. One day as she was running a load of dishes, water started to leak everywhere into her kitchen. She called her neighbor, who was a handyman, over and he was the first to discover the mold. He told Sarah that her dishwasher had probably been leaking for a few years before she bought the home and that the entire compartment needed a proper mold remediation. The great feeling Sarah had had just one year ago was now gone and replaced with a feeling of regret. Sarah could only wish she could go back and have a home inspection performed by a proper professional.
All homeowners should really have three different inspections on their home:
- Home inspection
- Mold inspection
- Wood destroying/pest inspection.
These three inspections can seem expensive for any new homeowner who has enough finical concerns on their minds; however, as I said before paying for a certified company to properly do these inspections will pay off in the long run. Having mold in the home can not only create a major health risk for everyone but the cost of cleaning it out may take that home away from you!! Not everyone understands the true value of the health risk that mold exposure can cause; this can cause a wide range of health affect and even death in some cases. Mold can be in areas throughout the house that can’t be seen with the naked eye and can be a serious issue, any professional company will do air sampling and use tools such as moisture meters and thermal imagine cameras to find areas of concern.
Over 20 years later, Sarah has moved twice and recently relocated to the Cleveland OH area where she recently purchased a new home and hired EnviroTech to perform a complete home inspection on the property before moving in. Even though Sarah is no longer that broke college student, she knows she learned at least one thing from that experience over 20 years ago…you should never cheap out on your home when it comes to inspections. So if you’re thinking of buying a home or you own one now, it’s never too late for a full inspection in your home. Contact us today to discuss the process; we would be more than happy to set up a home inspection for you.
