Home Inspection

Today we attended the home inspection for the condo that we put an offer in on.

The results were definitely promising! 

We chose an inspector that my boss had recommended (his inspection skills led her to back out of a deal to buy one house that would've had extreme structural issues). I have to say he did a very thorough job--and since I work as QA in the biotech field, it was interesting to seeing auditing techniques used in a very different circumstance/setting. 

We got to take a nice tour of the house again (and think about what we wanted to do with certain areas of the home), and Mr. Cap was extremely pleased to discover that there was a cable outlet located in the loft area (which will probably become his "man cave"--haha). Everything was a little bit smaller than I had remembered, but that's likely due to the fact that we had looked at 5 different places on the day that we had visited the condo for the first time. So some other locations were mixed into the memories.

But overall, we're pretty happy with the location and the structural integrity of the building. The cellphone reception isn't great, but that's something that we might be able to address in time (and what can we really expect when the condo is right next to conservation land?). 

The inspector told us that overall he was really impressed with the building. He said it wasn't sloppily built (but neither was it "perfectly" assembled). The builder had also apparently added in some additional things that weren't required by code, but were really good additions to have. He inspector told us that only once or twice a year he inspected a home that was in as good condition as this one--even though it's new, he'd seen plenty of other "new" buildings that weren't constructed properly. There were only a couple of minor issues he noted, and they're both things that should be easy to address.

We're happy that the inspection went so well. It was definitely on the expensive side (and the realtor/mortgage broker told us the inspection wasn't required since the building was new), but it really gives us quite a bit of peace of mind--and if we do end up staying in the condo for only 5 to 10 years, it's unlikely we should have to face any real problems with the building.

Now that is something worth paying for.