Browse Forums General Discussion Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 8Nov 04, 2007 6:30 pm Sounds like you had a buyer that was using an 'subject to inspection' clause to try and beat you down on price once the contract was signed.
By the way, did you drop the price because of all the 'defects'? Often this is done however the onus is on the buyer to either back out of the contract if you won't renegotiate the price or for you to keep them in the contract if you do renegotiate. At the end of the day the price is the price and you don't have to sell to anyone if they find things that their own inspection missed. Also, unless it is your inspector then you don't even need to have any faith at all in the report. To put it bluntly, it is wildly biased and can sometimes even be a complete setup! I'd be interested to know the scenario and pleased to hear that you managed to keep hubby out of the deal! hubby and house package 9Nov 05, 2007 6:13 pm Sounds like you had a buyer that was using an 'subject to inspection' clause to try and beat you down on price once the contract was signed.
it looked to us that the inspector was discouraging the girl from buying any house. He felt he can earn more money cause she trusted him so much. By the way, did you drop the price because of all the 'defects'? We haven't reduced the price even for a dolar. We didn't want to pay any money that is why we wanted her to withdraw. At some stage the real estate said we should reduce price about $500 just to let her haggle. We said clearly NO and then they ask: do you want to risk $350k for $500? This shows that agents are on the buyer side. It does not matter what price they get, they just want to sell it as soon as possible to send the letter to the neighbourhood: Hey, we sold the house in 3 days!!! We lost so much power for that girl. She came to us first time with a price of $310. then she told us she doesn't have any more. then she came, she opened every window, looked everywhere and asked how many beds she can fit... and then she offered.... $320. Don't want to think about it. Anyway I organised a quote for fixing the bricks from inside. The quote from the builder was $3500. Because she put our OLD fridge, microwave, toster and old cutlery and plates ON CONTRACT we said we will not give any further reduction. Meantime she asked us to leave some furniture behind because we don't need it in new house. She was very pushy and grrrrrr... still makes my blood pressure up! I'd be interested to know the scenario and pleased to hear that you managed to keep hubby out of the deal! Well... let's say... HE is my mortgage payer and I will not give him to anybody ... alive From the moment I left her a message I will be dealing with her only she "got" the message and left us alone. As far as I can see she is renting out the room to freshly arriving Chinese. cheers Kate Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 10Nov 05, 2007 6:35 pm Just thought I might add here…the best person to get to inspect your home would be a good builder!
Not sure how that stacks up to having a proper report done, but they will tell you straight up what’s going on. I wouldn’t think to get a building inspector; I would just want a builder. Sorry to hear about the reports and the miss leading info……unbelievable! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 11Nov 06, 2007 8:20 am Lotte I can't help but wonder how much asbestos is removed without the prior knowledge that it is actually asbestos. Cheers, Lotte And I wonder how much identified asbestos is just removed by the owners and chucked in the skip or wheelie bin? Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 12Nov 08, 2007 8:28 am Michelle Just thought I might add here…the best person to get to inspect your home would be a good builder! Not sure how that stacks up to having a proper report done, but they will tell you straight up what’s going on. I wouldn’t think to get a building inspector; I would just want a builder. Sorry to hear about the reports and the miss leading info……unbelievable! I wish I'd known and done that at the time. Now that we've done so much renovating, I'm pretty sure that in future, we'll check the construction of the property ourselves, but get a professional pest inspection carried out. It has definitely left a bitter taste in my mouth, though. Clearly, there is not enough legislation in place to manage asbestos, not to mention other hazardous materials such as lead. Louie And I wonder how much identified asbestos is just removed by the owners and chucked in the skip or wheelie bin? Exactly!! Cheers, Lotte Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 13Nov 08, 2007 8:56 am Lotte Louie And I wonder how much identified asbestos is just removed by the owners and chucked in the skip or wheelie bin? Exactly!! Cheers, Lotte If you happen to get busted for dumping asbestos the fines are HUGE!!!! If the skip people get busted, they will pass it on to you. BEWARE http://www.prsc.qld.gov.au/c/prsc?a=da&did=1070075&pid=1190845782&sid= http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/dec_media_070404_01 http://www.mackay.qld.gov.au/services/Waste_and_recycling/illegal_dumping Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 14Nov 08, 2007 2:09 pm Al If you happen to get busted for dumping asbestos the fines are HUGE!!!! If the skip people get busted, they will pass it on to you. BEWARE I wonder if anyone has actually incurred any of these fines as yet. That's even scarier if you ask me.... Lotte Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 15Nov 09, 2007 10:26 am Just to let you all know, you cant tell if a wall is asbestos just by looking at it, or knocking on it with your knuckles. The only way is to do a lab test for asbestos (labs that do these tests can be found in the yellow pages)
If in doubt over an old house, I'd get the tests done. Building a Jandson Espirit in Pennant Hills "What is the use of a home, if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"Henry Daniel Thereau Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 16Nov 09, 2007 11:14 am If it's bare, in some cases you can tell. If you can see the back of it, again sometimes, you can tell. Also, the age of your home will give you a fair indication if it would have been used or not.
The stuff at my place had small blue flecks through it. Hence, blue asbestos. Everyone pelase note, asbestos itself is not dangerous. It become an issue once you disturb it and breathe the dust. If it is there and doesn't need to be moved, leave it alone. The eaves the front of my house are asbestos and seeing as I have no plans to drill, break, disturb or eat any of it, I am not the least bit worried about it. Re: ******* Building Inspection?? 17Nov 09, 2007 11:24 am Al If it's bare, in some cases you can tell. If you can see the back of it, again sometimes, you can tell. Also, the age of your home will give you a fair indication if it would have been used or not. It's not hard to tell the asbestos walls in our house apart from the masonite walls... the asbestos walls have a slight textured pattern to them, are nailed in with flat nails and sound completely different to the rest of the walls. Further to this, it's not hard to remove a power point which easily identifies it... Quote: The stuff at my place had small blue flecks through it. Hence, blue asbestos. Ours has white flecks I believe?? Quote: Everyone pelase note, asbestos itself is not dangerous. It become an issue once you disturb it and breathe the dust. If it is there and doesn't need to be moved, leave it alone. The eaves the front of my house are asbestos and seeing as I have no plans to drill, break, disturb or eat any of it, I am not the least bit worried about it. I'm with you. Our eaves are 60 years old and still far better than those in most 10 year old houses. Asbestos is good stuff if undisturbed. The reason we are removing the internal asbestos is that we are carrying out substantial renovations, involving only the rooms containing asbestos (isn't this typical). The roof was in a bad state and had to be replaced, regardless of material. But the eaves will stay. On that note, the eaves are posing quite a problem for us. The paint is peeling off them and given that you can't sand, waterblast or scrape the asbestos eaves for ease of preparation, we will probably end up using a product called "Peel Away" in order to remove the paint and start afresh with good undercoating etc. Anyone else have any ideas? My neighbour reckons his painters just came in and sanded their eaves - always nice to know. Cheers, Lotte you need to understand the breakdown of warranties. 90 warranty is considered as minor defects rectification period where as the longer ones are more major/structural… 1 5339 i would suggest nothing is unreasonable for PCI. we did all sorts, including checking the hot water, checking all the GPO's had power, testing that the showers were… 9 98679 Hi, I have this sewer inspection point sitting in an odd spot in the rear of my yard: https://imgur.com/ghLI98q What I'd like to do is put a firepit in that corner of… 0 6523 |