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Always thought a home inspection was a waste of $450 until ours found one thing that saved us big
My wife and I put an offer on a 1970s ranch in Boise and almost skipped the inspection to save $450 because the place looked updated. The inspector found a crack in the heat exchanger that was letting carbon monoxide into the furnace ducts, and the sellers ended up covering the whole $3,800 replacement just to keep the deal alive. Has anyone else had an inspection catch something that would have been a total disaster later?
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jennifer_west7d ago
That heat exchanger crack is no joke and the thing most people dont get is it can kill you in your sleep without any warning signs. Carbon monoxide has no smell and no color so you would just feel a little tired and headachy and never put it together with the furnace. Your story shows why the $450 is cheap compared to what it catches, since spending $3,800 out of pocket later would have stung way worse than losing a little on the front end. What makes it even scarier is that new paint and floors and a shiny kitchen can hide stuff like that, and sellers often have no clue either because they never looked. A good inspector checks things you would never think to look at, like the inside of the furnace or the attic or under the sinks where slow leaks rot the wood for years. For anyone reading this, never let a seller talk you out of an inspection or push you to use their buddy who will just rubber stamp it, because that one hour can be the best money you spend on the whole house.
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