$26,000 Savings

Randy & Sue: Minneapolis, Minnesota
“We are so excited to share our story. We were brand new home buyers and had been living in an apartment for four years. We finally saved enough to put a down payment on a home and began looking, but we kept feeling really nervous about making an offer. We don’t have anyone in our family who knows the building trades, so our focus was always just on how the house appealed to us. One of our friends told us about Home Inspection Kit so we bought the kit. We read through all the great information – things we had never thought about. We felt much more confident looking at homes with our 17-page checklist. We’re happy to say that by using the kit and checklist we were able to negotiate our house from $207,000
down to $181,000. That’s a $26,000 savings!! We just showed the realtor our checklist and reviewed all the things that needed some repair along with price quotes we had obtained. We’re really thankful we had this tool.”

$7,000 Savings

James & Sarah: San Jose, California
“We want to say thank-you for the hundreds of tips and especially the walk-through guideline. We used the checklist for 7 different homes we looked at. It was helpful after we had returned home and began to compare homes. It saved us from making another trip through the home to remember some of the details. We wouldn’t have thought of looking at all the things in the checklist. In one house, we tried all the doors and one door (a slider that goes into the wall) was nailed shut!! The owners had remodeled and nailed the door shut!! And, they couldn’t produce a permit for their remodeling, so we wondered what else might have been done wrong! We finally found the house we wanted, but there were some problems. The great thing is that we knew about the problems and used that to negotiate the price of the home over and above our normal negotiations! We saved an additional $7,000 because we found needed repairs by using the walk-through checklist!! Thank you home inspection kit!!”

Tim & Candace: Billings, Montana
“We used the Home Inspection Kit with the tips and checklist to effectively negotiate $6,800 off the price of our home. We worked with some nice people that were “selling by owner” and they told us they were firm on their price and had already reduced it as low as they could go. It’s a lovely home that has been well cared for. By following the checklist we found some small problems like fist-sized holes behind wallpaper, and some outlets that were so loose the plugs kept falling out. We also noticed some cracks in the garage floor that weren’t too bad but interfered with the garage door closing tightly…we were concerned mice could get in. We documented these things in our 17-page checklist and then called around to
get some price quotes for fixing the plugs, walls and the garage floor. The owners were quite impressed by our thorough checklist and told us they wished they had a copy for the home they were purchasing! We gave them the website address! We strongly recommend this kit and will use it again if we ever buy another home.”

Certified Inspector

Bruce & Nancy: Venice, Florida
“We came across the Home Inspection Kit site while we were looking for a home inspector. Unfortunately, we had already signed a purchase agreement so we couldn’t use the tips for negotiating the price of the sale. But we were interested in the information they had about home inspectors so we bought the kit. We were new to
the Florida area and wanted to make sure we had a good inspector. We followed your tips and guidelines and found a “certified” inspector. He turned out to be great and found quite a few things that would need repair. We also asked the inspector several questions like the kit recommended. We wouldn’t have known what questions to ask if we hadn’t bought the kit. In the end, we negotiated to split the cost of the repairs that were needed but we wish we could have found this before we signed the purchase agreement. We’re pretty sure we would have saved a lot more than we did. We highly recommend this kit and wish we had known about it before.”

Great Information

Robert & Shanya: Nashville, Tennessee
“The information was well worth the $27.95. We actually decided to live in a different
area of the city by using the list of questions included in the kit. We found a nice,
modest home and by using the checklist we identified the problem areas that needed
repair and were able to buy our home well below appraisal.”