Buying a home is probably the most expensive purchase you will ever make. Particularly with the high price of housing found in San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles areas.
You have recently been adding together the numbers, from your offer, the closing costs, to the mortgage points, and you are trying to get the most favorable deals. Don’t stop believing now. This is no time to throw it all away for a cheap inspector. The cost of a quality home inspection is very small relative to the value of your home being inspected. The small additional cost of hiring InterNACHI-certified IM Home Inspections over the cheap guy is almost insignificant by comparison.
Don’t let your real estate agent, the cheap guy online, or anyone else talk you into skimping out on a quality home inspection. . You want someone who will come in with the best tools and the best training to do the best job. You are buying in Los Angeles, so you are already spending 1/3 of a million, or 1/2 a million, or maybe over a million dollars on a house, are you really going to trust such a large investment to the cheapest inspector you found online? Of course not. Your home is too valuable to go cheap.
Do yourself a favor, and get an IM Home Inspection.
