justagirl wrote:
I have purchased three brand mattamy homes and never hired an inspector. When we sold the homes the new owner alway came in with an inspector and they never found anything wrong with any of our homes. I think it up to you and what you feel comfortable with. Personally, if I was to hire an inspector, I would only hire one for year end. But that is me, you may feel more confort in hiring someone for all stages. Just do what your comfortable with.
I don't believe you can have an inspector at the PDI - but I highly recommend one for your 30 day or definitely your 1 year. We are on our second home in Milton, and did not get one on our first home, but over the years realized there were many small things that should have been fixed - we just didn't know enough. Our second house was a resale, but less than 2 years old - the house inspector we hired for this did a great job in telling us things we never would have known, like the attic insulation, while ok, was not the standard it should be, and there were some blow backs as well.
We used Andy Shaw from Halton Home Inspection and he was great. he also did my in-laws 30 day inspection a couple years ago, and found several little things that while not immediate issues, could have resulted in larger issues.
For a home that costs more then $500k, a $400-500 home inspection is .1% of the cost, and worth so much value.
BTW, congrats on the Juneberry purchase - my wife and I have been in ours now for 4 months, and we absolutely love this house - I think it is the best floorplan of any house I have seen or been in in Milton.