Serving the real estate needs of all of the Municipality of Anchorage, including Anchorage, Eagle River, Birchwood, Chugiak, Peters Creek and Girdwood.
Calumet City, IL, must have neither foreclosures, nor homes listed as fixer uppers. Lenders or asset managers of foreclosures would not care about meeting building codes. A homeowner selling a home "as-is" and letting the buyer fix it up could mean the seller either doesn’t have the finances and/or the ability to fix it up for sale. Determining if a home meets the building codes is the purpose of a home inspection. Home Inspections should be licensed, which means they are tested on building codes. If a home inspector doesn't know building codes, he should do something else. A home inspector and/or the appraiser can comment on the legal use of the structure. It is not the building codes that are "irrational." It is the designer of this law who is irrational. Not only would this law prolong the closing process, but it would add and unnecessary level of scrutiny to the sale process. This sounds like the Calumet City needs money. Calling for this inspection probably requires the homeowner to pay a fee for service. If the home is so bad a lender won't finance it, what difference does it make if the city looks at it? If a lender won't finance it, it's not financeable. Home selling and purchasing negotiations should be between buyer & seller, and the city shouldn't be involved in inspections. Pauline Hofseth, Assoc. Broker Prudential Jack White/Vista Real Estate Anchorage AK
