Inspection 801

Confirm the Repair Actually Happened

A repair receipt is not the same thing as a repair done correctly.

Repair agreements in a real estate transaction are easy to make and easy to leave half-finished. A seller agrees to fix the items on the list, a receipt or invoice shows up before closing, and everyone moves forward assuming the work matches the paperwork. A re-inspection checks the specific items from the original report — not the whole house again — to confirm each one was actually addressed and was done in a way that holds up, not just patched over for the walkthrough.

This matters most on items that are easy to fake superficially: a repainted ceiling over a leak that was never actually stopped, a GFCI reset instead of replaced, a crack skim-coated rather than investigated. An independent re-inspection has no reason to sign off on a cosmetic fix, because the person doing it is the same inspector who flagged the problem in the first place and has nothing to gain either way.

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