Home Inspection

Home inspections are highly recommended, yet not required by law in the state of California. Why one would not get a home inspection, I don't know. Do it and save yourself the headache of being surprised when something bad happens! We were prepared for the most, since the home is from 1938. Luckily we had another home inspection report to work off on from the previous potential homebuyers of this house. Let me tell you, just by reading the original report, it did NOT look good. In fact, the house sounded like it was just rotting away. Huge money-hole here.

We decided to get a back up inspection so that we could get a first hand look at what the house needed. The first home inspection was good, it just wasn't done with us there, so we weren't sure how bad of shape the house actually was. We contacted Andrew's second cousin, Bill Fetzer of The Inspection Connection who recommended Andy Hasler of National Property Inspections to us.

Andy was very courteous, on time, and thorough. In looking at the house from the outside, he was worried. After getting inside and underneath the home, he felt a lot better. To quote him - "My opinion of the house has gone up since seeing the inside and under the home." Whew! We know the house needs a lot of work (complete electrical rewiring and replumbing) but it will be worth it. The comps in the neighborhood are a LOT higher than what we paid, so hopefully whatever we put into the home will only help increase its value!

Here is a link to pictures from inside

Here is a small sample of homes from the neighborhood. I actually think we took pictures of a lot of ugly homes in the neighborhood and it isn't a true representation of what is actually there.