So to begin with, what exactly is a home inspection? A home inspection is performed by trained and licensed professional home inspectors, who will go over every detail of a home to look for current issues and potential issues. These repairs typically include serious health, safety, and structural issues that may have been found during the course of the home inspection.īeyond those repairs, buyers and sellers can negotiate the terms of the repairs or other concessions to come to an agreement. While a seller may not have a list of legally mandated repairs, there are some repairs that the buyer’s lender may require the seller to make in order to proceed with the financing.

The answer of who pays for repairs is equally ambiguous–“it depends” unfortunately. That doesn’t mean, however, that sellers can dismiss the home inspection offhand or refuse to pay for requested repairs and expect the sale to proceed.

From a legal standpoint, there are no mandatory repairs after a home inspection. What fixes are mandatory after a home inspection? The short answer is none.