Post contract inspections

[Jacob Rzewnicki]

Theoretically, lets say I get a house under contract with a stipulation saying I need to have inspections done before its closed. What are the most important inspections to have done and should I inspect every house the same way?

[Ned Carey]

@Jacob Rzewnicki presuming you are talking about a Single family home, get a good licensed inspector. Go with him to do the inspection and consider it like a class on how to inspect a house. You will learn a lot. 

If the inspector comes back with "you  need to get an electrical inspector to certify the elec and a plumber to certify the water heater and a roofer to check the roof, I wouldn't pay him, he or she didn't do their job.  But that is exactly what the inspector to my buyer a recent home I sold. the only separate inspection you should have is a wood eating insect report. 

A great book on inspections is "Inspecting a house" by Carson Dunlop and Associates LTD