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Sorry to hear about your situation. In my experience you have to be on top of home inspectors or for that matter termite inspectors. Since neither you or your husband were present they probably did as little as possible unfortunately. Most home inspection companies report on major home systems- heating, air conditioning, roof, plumbing, ...

your_pal_chris:BE TOUGHER ABOUT CREDITS AND FIXES!!! My point is we should have legitimately gotten a few thousand in fixes and/or credits that we didn't get because we were starry-eyed first-timers. Which gets back to the math of "Does an agent make sense or not?" Would the fixes cost less than the commission paid to someone to ...

Great advice from all!  My advice: Before settling on the initial offer, be sure that you look over everything carefully...Sure, you can negotiate after the inspection, but the "unwritten rule" is that you can't ask for things that you should have noticed on your own. As for Inspector--be sure the guy has carpentry ...

Here's the advice we got and followed. Get the house inspected every 5 years. You go to the doctor regularly and catch small problems before they get to be big expensive ones - why not the house? When you are ready to sell and move on, it is so much easier to get the house ready for market.