For Real Estate Professionals and Perspective Home Buyers
Are you (1) purchasing a building or are you (2) a real estate professional who has a client who is contemplating purchasing a home?
PCAI recommends that prospective buyers of existing buildings, whether residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial, retain the services of a qualified structural engineering consultant to assess the general condition of the building prior to buyers going forward with a purchase. Potential major headaches and costly building repairs, can often be minimized. Qualified structural engineering professionals can best identify structural problems as compared to the customary boiler plate real estate building inspection report, that is often too general to cover the specifics of a building to address what a perspective buyer is facing structurally. Structural problems that are not apparent to the untrained eye – can require costly repairs. You likely don’t want to close escrow before at least having an inspection of the building before you purchase it. The best professionals to retain for this are professional engineers. Structural repairs will often require the removal and replacement of architectural finishes.
PCAI recommends that prospective buyers of existing buildings, whether residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial, retain the services of a qualified structural engineering consultant to assess the general condition of the building prior to buyers going forward with a purchase. Potential major headaches and costly building repairs, can often be minimized. Qualified structural engineering professionals can best identify structural problems as compared to the customary boiler plate real estate building inspection report, that is often too general to cover the specifics of a building to address what a perspective buyer is facing structurally. Structural problems that are not apparent to the untrained eye – can require costly repairs. You likely don’t want to close escrow before at least having an inspection of the building before you purchase it. The best professionals to retain for this are professional engineers. Structural repairs will often require the removal and replacement of architectural finishes.
Before you close escrow on a home purchase, consider retaining a qualified structural consultant.
This can best help you to identify issues that have direct bearing on the value of the property.
This can best help you to identify issues that have direct bearing on the value of the property.