10-04-2020, 11:53 AM
The home inspection business is kind of shitty. The lender can likely pull a loan over stuff like the piping, asbestos, oil tanks, etc, but its case by case and lender by lender.
The piping here, and, if you have a crawl space in the house, its not the end of the world, as long as the sellers concede the $20k its going to cost to re-plumb the house. If they do, you have peace of mind because that stuff is a time bomb - not, you walk. Hot market or not, they wont be able to sell the house without fixing this.
I will never do another home inspection without a) crawling up the inspectors asses the whole time they're here and 2) hiring a GC I trust to walk behind them. At this point in the process you can walk away for just about any reason so use it to your advantage.
The piping here, and, if you have a crawl space in the house, its not the end of the world, as long as the sellers concede the $20k its going to cost to re-plumb the house. If they do, you have peace of mind because that stuff is a time bomb - not, you walk. Hot market or not, they wont be able to sell the house without fixing this.
I will never do another home inspection without a) crawling up the inspectors asses the whole time they're here and 2) hiring a GC I trust to walk behind them. At this point in the process you can walk away for just about any reason so use it to your advantage.