Like what the fuck IS this? In order to know anything meaningful about a house, I need it inspected, but to get it inspected I need to fucking put money down AND PAY FOR THE FUCKING INSPECTION and if it’s fucked and I don’t want to buy it then woops I lose all this fucking money? Jesus fucking christ it’s a turbo charged version of the apartment application fee scam. Fucking christ. Who decided on all this bullshit? Infinite guillotines for all of them
This is one of those things that just really go to show the fucked up extremism of the bourgeoisie, like, you could have capitalist hell and still have like mandatory state run inspections, the details of which are public, for every property being sold. But woops, nope, fuck you peasant
You’d think with how this country jerks itself raw over home owners it wouldn’t be this way, but WOOPS
This post brought to you by my gf and I being incredibly anxious over maybe buying a house that seems okay but has a slab foundation so like i don’t fucking know what condition the plumbing is in
Put money down on the house or money down on the inspection? You want to be the one who pays the inspector. Otherwise the owner will hire an overlooker. Also be sure to get a real inspector and not some specialist moonlighting as a general inspector.
But otherwise, buying a house is one of if not the most Byzantine part of american society. The stakes are so high that its caked in two centuries of laws. Land ownership is the cornerstone of the cornerstone of american society. And if there is anything more important, its land scams.