Ep 110 – Home Inspections For First-Time Home Buyers
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
2022 has brought home inspections to the forefront. So in this episode, David Sidoni breaks down how it works, what to expect, and how to protect yourself with this crucial piece of the home-buying puzzle. And to continue your first-time home buyer education, he then breaks down the other I’s of home buyer terms and definitions.
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| 0:00.0 | No matter what's going on in the market, a home inspection is super important. |
| 0:03.5 | And if you've been paying attention to what's happening with the current buying cycle here in 2022, |
| 0:09.4 | you're hearing a lot about home inspections. |
| 0:11.9 | People are waving them. |
| 0:13.0 | People are saying it's not that important. |
| 0:14.7 | Sellers are saying you have to buy the home as is. |
| 0:17.2 | So why do you even do an inspection? |
| 0:19.0 | Well, we're going to get into all the details about the |
| 0:21.8 | importance of a home inspection. What you need to know, what you don't need to freak out about, |
| 0:29.1 | and the things that are the most important when you take a look at your home from top to bottom. |
| 0:35.4 | Let's do it. |
| 0:51.2 | Music your home from top to bottom. Let's do it. What is the hippity haps, my how to buy a homies? |
| 0:55.4 | Now I'm recording this episode today near the end of June 2022. |
| 1:00.4 | So to all you people listening in the future, remember how freaked out everybody was this summer? |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, remember that? |
| 1:07.6 | Damn. |
| 1:08.4 | This entire week of news has led with the economy, and that is usually |
| 1:14.3 | not a good thing. Not because bad economic news is always bad for you. You know, I've said |
| 1:20.5 | it before, thanks to my friends at Run DMC. It's not bad meaning bad. It's bad meaning good. |
| 1:25.6 | Yes. Thank you, Run. So listen to 108 if you want details on what's going on with all the bad stuff in the economy and how it might be good for you. But today we're going to have a nice little education lesson. Today we're going to dive right into the terms and definitions for the letter I. We're going to start with the most important term for first-time |
| 1:46.4 | home buyers inspection. Now, in recent years, the market has been just ridiculously competitive. |
| 1:53.5 | And because of that, there's been a lot of talk about inspections. Seems to be kind of the |
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