My neighbor’s daughter is buying her first house and made an offer on a beautiful totally renovated older home.  The home inspection report revealed a major issue with the heating system, one that will require holes being made in the floors and walls to correct the problem!  As you can imagine she is freaking out and may withdraw her offer.  The owner is freaking out, too, as you can imagine.

This entire situation could have been avoided if the owner had simply had a home inspection done BEFORE putting the house on the market and fixed the issue then.

So please learn by this mistake.  When selling your house,  if you have ANY doubts about any of your major home systems, save yourself a lot of trouble and possibly save a deal by having a home inspection and getting your repairs done first!