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A New House
We are house hunting, in Winona Mn. I'm hoping to buy before Easter.
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Nice! What’s in Winona?
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Two university's and all the usual suspects for a city of 25k.
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The Winona COOP had pork belly burnt ends on the hot bar. And they were good, not smoked but it's a start.
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We found a house in Spring Grove Mn, and it is perfect. We get a showing tomorrow at 10.
www.zillow.com/homedetails/428-Maple-Dr-Spring-Grove-MN-55974/106686797_zpid/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=emo-SendToFriendHDP-image&zuid=ZUr4rjbaqfsvex_a6mey
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The house will not pass a VA inspection.
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Darn it
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How is a VA inspection different from a regular home inspection? Are they more stringent?
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Some say a regular home inspection is stricter while others say the VA inspection is. It seems to come down to areas of focus. A regular inspection may pay more attention to home systems (e.g. electrical, plumbing, HVAC...etc.) The VA has minimum requirements for these and looks more into safety (air/water/soil contamination, lead/asbestos. safety devices...etc.).
That's an old home (1904) which may have had a lot of DIY work done that's not entirely up to code. For instance, the pictures show handrails on the front porch steps; but, none on the steps leading off the deck. There may be other shortcomings in structural and systems modifications/upgrades/repairs. The buyer would have to pay about $500 for a VA inspector to identify all issues and then determine whether or not correcting them would be worthwhile. If the realtor pointed out, up front, that the home would not pass a VA inspection, I'd take that to mean the seller isn't interested in making corrections... it's probably cost prohibitive.
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Too true.
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WTF? The VA inspector can fail the house and not tell you why?
Oh, they only have to tell the owner and he's not talking?
Crap.
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The VA makes their inspection criteria available online. An experienced realtor can predict that a house won’t pass.