Thread: Final Walk Through

by all means insist that it is turned on.

There sounds like an interesting story behind this....want to share?

We arrive at the house and find that the power has been turned off. Our Realtor does not think that this is a problem. He states that the appliances worked when we did the inspection and so they should be working now. (??????). He asked why we would think that they did not work. I explained that I thought that the main point of the Final walk through was to make sure everything still worked and everything was left as agreed. He attitude toward the power being off was "well, what can we do"? That was our question to him, but he was not making any offers to try and do anything about the issue. I finally blow up and said that I was not closing if I could not test the appliances....I accused him of not being a good real estate agent. I think I hurt his feelings, but that was not what I intended to do, I just did not feel like he was looking out for us and working for us. But, maybe I'm out of line. Maybe the rules are that we have to come up with the idea and ask the Real Estate agent to do it instead of assuming it is something he should do without us telling him to do it, because this is our first house and we don't have a clue on what we can ask for or should ask for. But, it's hard to ask a Real Estate agent to do something, when we don't know our options.

You had every right to ask for the power to be on. There is no reason why your agent should have been resisting.

I had a closing where the seller turned off the power before the walk through. I wanted to hold off the closing until the power was turned on but the buyers insisted on closing right then so we did.

Turns out one of the heat pumps had died right before closing and the seller was trying to hide it. If I had not insisted on having the power turned on, the expense of a new heat pump would have fallen on me. Instead the buyers had to replace the heat pump.

Besides the appliances you need to check to see if there is hot water coming out of the faucets and if the heat and/or cooling system works.

Question: How would one test the heat in the summer?