The Arizona Association of REALTORS residential purchase contract is 9 pages long. Section 6 is about Due Diligence on the part of the buyer. Inspections, square footage, termites, sewers, swimming pool barriers, home warranties and a final walk through are all covered. It’s a very important part of the contract. The default for the...
I attended a real estate disclosure class this week, Inspection Disclosure Illuminated. It was taught by Tom Sanders of Assure Home Inspection. He covered the Arizona ASHI Standards of Practice. Not all states require home inspectors to be liscensed, but Arizona does. ASHI is the American Society of Home Inpsectors, Inc.. Arizona Standards of...
Occassionally, people moving to the desert will ask about scorpions, rattlesnakes and black widows. Yes, we have them but not in all homes. I’ve lived in Arizona for over 12 years now and I’ve never seen a live scorpion in a home. I have only seen one rattlesnake in the wild and it was...
That’s what it says on line 48 of the AAR Residential Resale Contract. There’s a space to put in those items. But, how does the buyer and/or buyer’s agent know if there are any. I was taught by my broker, to write, “to be disclosed during the inspection period, if any”. Security systems and...
The Arizona Department of Real Estate Buyer Advisory has a lot of good information for buyers and for home owners. When we need roof repairs a few years ago, I looked at the Buyer Advisory information regarding roofs. It provided a link to the Arizona Registrar of Contractors. This site provides information that is...
