Like what the fuck IS this? In order to know anything meaningful about a house, I need it inspected, but to get it inspected I need to fucking put money down AND PAY FOR THE FUCKING INSPECTION and if it's fucked and I don't want to buy it then woops I lose all this fucking money? Jesus fucking christ it's a turbo charged version of the apartment application fee scam. Fucking christ. Who decided on all this bullshit? Infinite guillotines for all of them
This is one of those things that just really go to show the fucked up extremism of the bourgeoisie, like, you could have capitalist hell and still have like mandatory state run inspections, the details of which are public, for every property being sold. But woops, nope, fuck you peasant
You'd think with how this country jerks itself raw over home owners it wouldn't be this way, but WOOPS
This post brought to you by my gf and I being incredibly anxious over maybe buying a house that seems okay but has a slab foundation so like i don't fucking know what condition the plumbing is in
Unfortunately you have to treat it like applying for jobs. 90% of it is bullshit and basically the only way to sift through the bullshit is to already be secured.
If it requires you to put money down before an inspection than it's like a job that doesn't list the salary, you know it's bullshit.
Unfourtunatly rhenonly way to be on equal footing with the people selling is to already have housing so they can't hold it over you to accept bullshit conditins, just like job hunting.
There are decent jobs out there just like there's decent houses out there but you basically have to hear about it from a friend of a friend and skip as much of the formal "normal" process as normal for it to work.
It sucks, pretty much all of american culture is finding the 10% of something that isn't predatory capitalist bullshit.
such is life in the greatest country on earth
Death to America