5. Attend Home Inspection.
Even the best home inspectors can miss things, and even the most knowledgeable inspectors can fail to accurately convey the information they find to you as a buyer. Your buyer’s agent should be at the home inspection to hear exactly what the home inspector finds.
When the home inspection is over and you are given the report from the inspector, an excellent agent will counsel you on what should be brought to the seller's attention.
If your agent is not in attendance, it is awfully hard to understand what the issues are and then negotiate them. Make sure you find out up-front if your agent will be at the inspection. If they say it is not their “policy” to go, insist they be there. Unfortunately, in this business, there are a lot of lazy agents who will try to get away with doing as little as possible.
