Home Buying

Reading a Sewer Inspection Video as a First-Time Buyer Forty minutes of a dark pipe and a report that says offset at 62 feet. How to watch the footage, recognise the common findings and know… Sewer Inspection for New-Build Walkthroughs The walkthrough checks the paint and the cabinets. The sewer lateral under the new lawn is checked by nobody unless the buyer asks. When to scope… Sewer Inspection for Estate and Inherited Properties The person who knew the house is gone. The sewer inspection that tells heirs and executors what they have inherited, and what to do about it… Sewer Inspection Before Selling: Avoiding a Deal-Breaking Surprise The buyer's inspector will scope the sewer. A seller who scopes first chooses when the problem is found, who fixes it and what it costs the… Buying a Home on a Private Sewer Lateral: Who Is Responsible Your lateral may be yours all the way to the middle of the street. How to find out where responsibility ends, and why the camera should… Buying a Foreclosure or Vacant Home: Sewer Line Checks No flow for a year, roots that moved in, traps that dried and a seller who knows nothing. How to inspect the sewer on a foreclosure… Buying a Home With Clay Sewer Pipe: Inspection Priorities Clay does not rust and does not rot, but it has a joint every two feet and roots know it. What to look for on camera… Buying a Home With Cast Iron Drains: Inspection Priorities Cast iron rusts from the inside until the bottom is gone. Where to look first, what the camera shows, and how to tell a drain system… Buying a Home With Orangeburg Pipe: What to Expect Tar-impregnated paper, sixty years underground. What Orangeburg looks like on camera, why every piece of it is a replacement, and how to buy the house anyway. Buying a Home With a Lined Sewer: How to Inspect a Liner A liner can give an old lateral decades more life or hide the reasons it was failing. How to read the camera footage of a lined…