Make sure you check heating and cooling systems as well regardless of season, and have the inspector show you how those items work, e.g. if its a boiler. 

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Deeded water access in a popular vacation rental area.

And, if you wouldn't feel comfortable with someone treating your parents like this, why is it cool to do this to someone else's parents? 

Its infrastructure was in pretty good shape but cosmetics were terrible with water damage, missing toilets, sinks, appliances, torn or missing flooring and large holes in the wall.

-Splitting out gas and water and installing a new water heater is $6500. 

They purchased a water front property at a great price for cash (from sale of previous home) but are having trouble lining up the financing to do renovation.

It is now your responsibility to trim the tree and water and cut the grass.

So for Home Depot, City Water Bill, Farmers Insurance, Staples and stuff like that, I just do the quick add. 

Although we didn't go through him for the purchase of my parents home, my good friend and realtor Ryan Parker (now with Keller Williams On The Water - Sarasota FL) was great for us when we were looking at other houses in the area before I was able to convince my wife to go with our home now.