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Buyer's Inspection · Malcom, IA

Buyer's Inspection in Malcom

Buyer's Inspection in Malcom, IA by Closer Look Inspectors. A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.

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Malcom · Poweshiek County

Buyer's Inspection in Malcom

Buyer's Inspection in Malcom, Poweshiek County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Malcom is a small rail town of older homes between Grinnell and Brooklyn.

A buyer's inspection is your own independent read on a home you have under contract — the report that tells you what you are actually buying and protects your negotiating position before the inspection contingency expires.

Malcom is served by our Montezuma team →  ·  (563) 517-7815

Split-level home with stone facing on a sloped lot — Buyer's Inspection in Malcom, IAMalcom
Local housing

Homes in Malcom.

Malcom housing runs to early-1900s farm-town homes with scattered postwar additions, across the compact town core, on rolling loess-mantled till of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain — and that mix shapes what a buyer's inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Malcom

No Iowa law requires a home inspection before a sale — the one mandatory time-of-transfer inspection covers private septic systems (Iowa Code 455B.172) — which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on a Malcom home. Malcom sits in Poweshiek County, and every Iowa county is EPA Radon Zone 1. Iowa HHS reports Iowa has the largest percentage of homes above the 4.0 pCi/L action level of any state — 71.6 percent in the Iowa Radon Survey — and the Iowa seller disclosure form asks for any known radon test results. Finished basements concentrate it, and only a 48-hour test gives you this home's number. Iowa leaves frost depth to the local building code rather than one statewide number, and the annual freeze-thaw cycle drives the settlement cracks and ice-dam wear that Malcom-area homes face.

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Questions

Common questions.

When should I schedule it?
As soon as your offer is accepted, so the finished report lands inside your inspection window with room left to respond.
Who do you work for?
You, every time. We are hired by the buyer, never the seller, and the report reflects only what we observed on site.
Do you cover Malcom?
Yes. Around Malcom the heavy drift-plain clay holds water against foundations, so basement seepage and settlement cracks get a hard look, along with the original wiring and plumbing common in early-1900s homes.
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