House Inspection

Dear Kids,

Invariably if you own a home or ever do you will be on both the selling and buying side a few times in your life.

One of the many many things you have to do for both is hire an inspector to nitpick everything about the house - big and small.

This seems like a perfectly reasonable thing.  Obviously I want to know if the seller is hiding huge mutant mold fed R.O.U.S's in the attic.  Obviously I want my home buyer to have all the information they need so that they don't sue me later saying they didn't know that the stairs weren't actually an escalator in disguise.

But no matter how many times we go thru inspections.  No matter whether they are for our house or the house we want, they are invariably horribly weirdly invasive and offensive.  It's like when the nurse checks how dilated you are when you're in labor.  a) it's obviously invasive b) it hurts like hell  c) adding invasive pain when you are already in LABOR pain is just insult to injury.

And yet... no other real way is there? So...

We KNEW almost everything that came up on our Tanoble inspection (there were a few things that were not right - i.e. the dishwasher does too work - but maybe there had been a fuse tripped or something who knows.... and I don't know who broke the stopper thingee on the brand new faucet we put in downstairs but it sure as heck wasn't US) - see?? It's that weird? You know and yet it is still so offensive to have someone point out everything that is wrong with your house or might possibly someday be.

Anyway, in conclusion, don't sweat it.  Or pay someone to do an inspection, then fix everything, then try not to slug the buyer's inspector when he still finds things.

Mom