Are contingencies being accepted again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How exactly are people inspecting before making offers? Do you get permission to have an inspector accompany you to a showing? If so that must be pretty quick, as it seems seems like in this market showings tend to be limited to 30 minute or so time slots.

Listing agents/sellers allow you to schedule an hour to do a "walk and talk" inspection. They'd rather you do the inspection first and walk because you don't like what you see than have to go through taking the house on the market and putting it back on again. We just bought in Northern Virginia and this is super common. We only did it for one house (not the one we bought).

Listing agents can allow you to do whatever they want to. We've done two very thorough multi-hour pre-inspections in the past year.

[Anonymous]

We waived our inspection contingency, but did an informational inspection. It was written into the contract that we had the right to inspect, but the way it works is that no deficiencies need to be corrected and it’s not grounds for getting out of the contract.