If you are in a hurry, please call me at CELL # 859-797-3873 or CELL# 502-570-4054 with as much of the information about the house as you have handy to obtain the B4U Close cost of your home inspection. If you have a few minutes, I suggest you read the entire page about Home Inspection Pricing differences.
The cost of a B4U Close home inspection varies based on the following information:
- Size of the house
- Age of the House
- Foundation type: Crawl Space, Basement, or slab
- Number of bathrooms
- Number of Air Conditioning/Heating Systems
- Type of garage
- Outbuildings or recreational facilities included or not included in the inspection.
- As we service a large area, the distance we have to travel to get to the property may also play into the cost.
Please call me at CELL # 859-797-3873 or CELL# 502-570-4054!
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Additional Kentucky Home Inspection Pricing information.
So you’re spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on a home purchase, and paying the realtors 5 – 6% ($5,000 – $6,000 per $100,000) of the home’s value. (Where do you think the seller gets the money to pay the realtors?) Now it’s time to find a Home Inspector and find out what they are going to charge.
No matter how much you pay for a Snickers Candy Bar or, where you buy it, you still get a Snickers Candy Bar. Same quality. Same taste. Same appearance.
That maxim does not hold true when buying an opinion. And face facts, a Home Inspection is just the Home Inspector’s opinion (and the Inspector’s ability to communicate that opinion) of a particular house. Hopefully it’s an expert opinion based on knowledge, education, training, experience, and ability to communicate, but still just an opinion.
If a $25 or $50 difference in the price of the Home Inspector’s opinion is more important to you than what the opinion is based on (knowledge, education, training, experience, ability to communicate, type of report received, etc) and how much money that opinion can save you, (YES, SAVE YOU), then stop reading after this paragraph. Go to the Yellow Pages, look under Home Inspections, and call each one asking just one question. “How much do you charge?” Don’t waste your time asking any other questions or listening to the Inspector explain the level of service. Just go until you get all through and then select the cheapest. To my knowledge, in Central Kentucky, it’s about $175.
Just remember, “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” (Author unknown)
If you DON’T want the cheapest, least experienced, desperate for work, inspector, read further.
Can you trust your realtor’s recommendations? Usually yes, if they give you a list with eight to ten or more Inspector’s on it instead of just two or three names. Just remember, they don’t get paid if you don’t buy the house. I note the following real life experiences.
#1. I recently had a client who, after asking several questions, told me, “I really feel I need an inspection. My realtor emphasized several times that the house had just been remodeled so she didn’t think I needed an inspection, but then she wanted me to sign a form saying that she recommended an inspection. I just don’t get it.” There was over $1,000.00 in defects noted during the inspection.
#2. I’d been trying to get a particular realtor to put my company’s name on his list of Inspectors for over three years. He finally called wanting me to do an inspection for one of his clients. Who was the client? His son!
What should be more important to you than a $50 or $100 difference in price is what the Home Inspector bases the opinion on and how they communicate their opinion to you, the client.
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