Buying A Home
What to Inspect During a Home Inspection
Your inspection contingency period is your time as the buyer to perform all the due diligence required to move forward comfortably with the sale. In our current market in Oakland and the East Bay, it’s common for this contingency to be waived, yet I don’t recommend it. The contingency period protects you and allows you to back out of a purchase should troubling information about the home be raised. Timing In fast-paced markets like ours, this period may last anywhere from zero days up to 14 or so after entering into a contract to purchase. Because timing is tight, due
