St. John's Real Estate

HI -  we purchased a home in Portugal Cove that was inspected for us prior to sale and prior  to our returning to Newfoundland, by a so called home inspector.  We were given a full detailed report with items to be taken care of which was over seen to by my son. (for the items listen - its the one that the inspector overlooked and did not record that are of issue)  However, the inspector failed to report many very disturbing items.  Such as passing without mention a fridge plugged into the counter outlet and not wired to its own outlet.(many holes in the walls with bare wires! The bathroom wall plug only works if you turn the light on and it really goes downhill from here - the dishwasher which was touted to be tested had not been hooked up to water in years but was passed as running ( home is only 19 years old   - the fireplace that was supposed to work had not had a delivery of propane since 2003 and wiring in the house, is not only illegal, its very dangerous - yet it all passed with flying colours and was presented to us as passed and working. We were out of country at the time of sale and had to trust the so called inspectors of this province lol  For such items as removing items like mirrors and more that were bolted at the time of sale.  Shocking I tell you  !

Home Inspectors don't check appliances and mirror on closing.  If you were buying the home the agent should have tested it if you were not there to view the home.  Also some should have done a finial inspection and picked up that the mirror was removed.  Home inspector don't check the fireplace as well. They just check to see if the line is good and everything is correct coming into the house.  The only thing the home inspector should have picked up on in everything you were talking about was the wiring.  If you asked for the appliances then you check them. You should have made sure that on closing day the mirrors were there.  

Forget the home inspector - get a qualified electrician, carpenter, and plumber to do the inspection. Within a week of my last move I paid out $1800 to replaced a service panel that was arcing. in the last six montss I  have corrected water leakage problems as well as additional electrical problems that should have been found by the home inspector.