Home warranty & home inspection guides
These guides cover the mechanics that the item-by-item coverage profiles assume you already know: how a home service contract is written and priced, what a home inspection is required to include, how a contingency period actually works, and what a buyer is supposed to do with a report full of findings. They are organized into three sections, each with its own overview page.
Each section opens on an overview
The warranty section, the inspection section and the buying-process section each begin with a page that sets out how that subject works as a whole, before the guides below it take apart a single exclusion, standard of practice or deadline. A reader who has not yet bought a service contract or sat through an inspection will get more out of that page than out of a guide to one clause.
Home warranties
10 guidesHow home service contracts are written, priced, limited and denied.
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Home inspections
6 guidesWhat an inspection is, what it excludes, and what to do with the report.
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Buying process & due diligence
2 guidesThe sequence of a purchase and the investigation that runs alongside it.