Home Inspection or Home Warranty?

Article by: Wallace J. Conway

Homebuyers are a curious lot. They routinely ask thought-provoking questions. A common question is, "If I get a home , 5 Steps to Protecting Your Hardwood Floor From Disaster inspection, should I still get a home , Tips for choosing a landscaping firm warranty?" Then there's always this question, "If I get a home , Is Landscape Fabric Even Necessary In Landscaping? warranty, do I still need a home , How To Save Your Fruit Tree Blossoms From A Spring Freeze. inspection?"

The choice between having a home , Caring for perennials in the garden inspection and purchasing a home , How to choose a riding lawn mower for your property warranty is a question that I frankly do not understand. Each is intended to serve a separate purpose and ideally work together to protect and reduce the risk of homeownership.

Maybe an analogy will make the matter clear. An individual has just had a complete and through physical exam. The results of the exam and all associated lab tests are that the individual appears to free of all disease , Stihl Chainsaws - Still Going Strong or illness. They are presently the picture of health!

Would it be prudent or responsible for the doctor then to recommend to the patient, due to their fine physical condition, that it is a waste of money to continue to pay for health insurance? Of course not!

None among us would consider the doctor even sane, let alone responsible to make such a recommendation. But, is that not the same situation to someone feeling that they need not purchase a home , A Guide to Industrial Vacuum Cleaners warranty because they just had a home , REMOVING OLD ALUMINUM WINDOWS inspection?

And let's view this same scenario from the opposite direction. Would we expect that our life insurance carrier would recommend to us that we forego the expense of regular physical exams, because, after all, we now have life insurance! Insanity!

The life insurance companies, in fact, feel so strongly that a physical exam is such an important part of risk reduction that a physical exam is often required to secure a life insurance policy, or at least has an effect on the insurance rate.

If insurance companies want to have you "inspected" prior to assuming the risk of your passing, it certainly makes sense for the homebuyer to have the home , REPLACING STEEL CASEMENT WINDOWS (PART 2) inspected prior to purchase. Doesn't it, therefore, make similar sense to warrant unforeseen failure with the home , Taking Care of Futon Frames, Furniture, and Mattresses warranty?

When buyers fully understand risk and the cost-effectiveness of risk reduction tools, , REMOVING OLD ALUMINUM WINDOWS they almost always want all of the risk reduction tools , Prepare for Winter Before It Arrives available. It is in everyone's best interest to reduce risk by every cost effective means possible. Buyers love to be educated about understanding and reducing risk, and everyone loves a happy homebuyer!

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Wally Conway is President of Florida HomePro Inspections, and is featured regularly on HGTV's "House Detective". As a speaker, writer, instructor, and host of The Happy Home , Construction Jobs - Finding a Subcontractor Inspector radio show every Saturday at 5 PM on WOKV 690, Wally blends the right amount of up-to-date information , Purple Martins Are Back! with just the right amount of humor, insight, motivation, and real-world application. Visit http://www.wallyconway.com and http://www.gohomepro.com for more information! , A Review of Prominent Circuit Breaker Manufacturers

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