A property inspection is essential when you’re walking on the path of spending big bucks. The COVID-19 virus spread has made an enormous impact on the way inspectors perform property inspections. Though you know the importance of house inspection before selling or buying a house, everyone’s safety should be your topmost priority.
However, as a home buyer, you must take care of the things listed below while heading towards property inspection in 2021.
#1. Safety measures implementations:
For safety purposes, home inspectors must use the right personal protection equipment (PPE) for every inspection. In addition to this, you should ensure that, along with wearing masks, gloves, and shoe coverings, inspectors are wiping down the equipment before and after leaving the house. People present at the inspection location should also maintain a social distancing of 1.5m. Safety also includes limiting attendees for the inspection – two people (you and buyer) plus your agent.
#2. Remote home inspections:
There’s no compulsion for homebuyers to be present at the place of a home inspection, especially during this pandemic. This is a blessing in disguise, mainly for those buyers who live in another city. Otherwise, you need to travel and stay in a 14-day quarantine period just for the sake of home inspection. Apparently, this also means that you’ll need a trained and certified inspector equipped to deliver the findings report via online tools.
#3. Less-touch experience:
The heading itself says it all! After reaching the home inspection location, you should ask the seller to switch on and off the lights, open and close the doors, etc. Inspectors should also carry modern tools to avoid physical touch, such as infrared thermometry; it will detect temperature differences, for example, wiring issues. All of these will allow you to create a touch-less experience as much as possible. Furthermore, before checking-in for the inspection process, you should also make sure that no seller’s household is under a quarantine period.
#4. Quality to be the focus:
We all must be agreeing with the fact that hygiene and cleanliness should be the focus. Or else, you’ll put yourself, your family, as well as society at peril. Hence, you should advise the seller to keep the home, especially common areas, disinfected during the inspection process. The seller must properly sanitise its home to keep away the virus. Also, they must keep the hand sanitisers at the door to help the potential buyer and inspector to sanitise their hands.
#5. Quicker generation of reports:
The inspector generates a 40-page inspection report, including photos in a hard copy, so here you should make sure that they are providing it in a binder. It is an easy reference guide keeping you aware of the good, bad, and ugly things of the house. Along with this, if you’re not present at the inspection place, then the inspector also sets up a Zoom meeting to go over the details. This virtual meeting will make things easier, allowing you to gain clarity on the report generated.
Even the COVID-19 era has a silver lining!
Yes, you heard it right! There’s some good news for the home buyers in 2021. The real estate could soon become a buyers’ market. So, you could start expecting better responses to your home inspection requests, and more importantly, your safety. You merely need to take care of the above pointers.
Well, during these troubled times, choose a reputed home inspection company for your home. With them on-board, you can expect great things to happen with you after a home inspection. Their modern technology tools will optimise the process, saving you time and averting significant expenses down the road.
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Hi, I am Ariana Mortenson, a professional writer and blogger. I write on various niches in a way that it’s understandable and appealing to the people. Follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
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