'Planks OVER the carpet?!': Home inspector reveals atrocious violations on a $370k home that the realtor flipped themselves, potential homebuyer backs out

Owning property is extremely expensive these days. Basically unattainable to many Americans. Some buy homes with the hope of flipping it and selling it for much more than they paid. The only problem with this technique, however, is that many of these flippers have no professional idea what they are doing.

So if you're on the market for a home, (lucky!) it's important to also hire a good home inspector. Sure you can spot a hole in the wall or a puddle on the basement floor. But home inspectors find all the violations that will actually end up costing you more if you do end up buying the house. Take Inspector Noah, a house inspector who posts some of this craziest inspections on his TikTok. One that he recently posted was showing a $370k home that was renovated by the realtor who was also listing the house. Feels like a conflict of interest, but whatever… Good thing he was able to go through it, because that $370k house would've quickly turned into costing someone something closer to over half a million!

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When you buy a home, it's important to get it inspected first, because the violations the inspector finds will cost you to fix. So you can either negotiate down in price to compensate for those repairs or have the homeowner repair those violations before selling so it doesn't cost you more to fix them. If not, like this house, you might be thinking you're getting a good deal, but really you're getting swindled.

Like this house that had countless violations and even fake wood floors installed ON TOP OF CARPET. Like, who does that??
"Imagine living with all of that under your floor."

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