[gamechangr]

My mother owns a residential real estate brokerage. She's siting next to me and thinks the previous post has misguided advise. She has been a broker for over 30 years.

She recommends that you always ask your agent for a home inspector recommendation.

"We pick the best home inspectors by the ones that performed the best in previous deals. We don't get $1 for recommendations. We wouldn't want to incase there was ever a problem down the road. Getting a high quality home inspector is much harder than it looks.".

[walrus01]

Respectfully, I would ask if your mother has ever worked in a residential real estate market as overheated and bubble-like such as the metro Vancouver BC area.

Shadow-flipping, assignments, double dealing have become the norm here.

https://www.google.com/search?q=vancouver+real+estate+corrup...

[gamechangr]

There are many many markets. Totally agree there.

I appreciate your point. But by the same token, you are extending a reality that might be in Vancouver to all of real estate markets.

This is one of the issue that I think makes Real Estate so complexed is that it's super easy to group it together as if 200 cities are one market.

I wouldn't even know if you could group large areas together (like all agents in.... 'The South" "The west coast" "The East Coast"...do it this way.)