Chasing Financial Freedom

The mistake was not made at closing. It was made the day you chose the wrong loan amount on the front end.

By the time you are sitting at the closing table, being told you need to bring $15,000 or $19,000 out of pocket, it is already too late to fix the front-end decision that got you there. Plan your exit before you plan your entry. Every single time. Call me before you take out a hard-money or fix-and-flip loan, and we will map out the whole thing before you are committed to a number you cannot get out of cleanly.

Have you ever gotten to closing and realized the mistake happened long before you got there?

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You walked the property. It looked fine. So you skipped the inspection to move faster.

The appraiser works for the lender. Not you. What looked fine during your walkthrough is irrelevant to the lender and to the property's actual condition. The inspector's job is to tear that house apart and find everything wrong with it. That is not a threat to your deal. That is the one person in the entire transaction who is exclusively on your side.

Have you ever skipped an inspection and paid for it later, or caught something that saved the deal?

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If your purchase agreement does not include an inspection contingency, you have already given up your best exit before the deal even starts.

Get the offer accepted. Run the inspection. And if the seller will not fix what needs fixing, or the numbers no longer work, walk away clean. That inspection period written into your contract is not a formality. It is the clause that protects every dollar you have committed before you ever get to closing.

Have you ever walked into a deal without an inspection contingency and paid for it later?

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