Your offer was accepted! Now it is time to visit the property again with a professional home inspector and have any other inspections that need to be done. What a home inspector will do is walk through the property with you, point out things you might have originally missed, and give you tips on maintaining the property once you own it. A home inspector should not give you estimates on repairs. Their job is solely to find any defects in the property and make sure you are aware of them.
On May 1, 2001, a Home Inspector Licensing law took effect in this state. You can no longer get a recommendation for a Home Inspector from an agent unless that agent is working for you as a Buyer Agent. You are now directed to the state site: http://www.state.ma.us/reg/boards/hi/index.htm. All licensed home inspectors are listed there.
However, when working for you as a buyer's agent I can still recommend a home inspection company. There are home inspection companies that I have worked with in the past, and I would gladly recommend one to you. One more way that a buyer agent can be beneficial.
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