Know exactly what you're buying.
Upload your home inspection report. Joysts lists your inspector's safety items first, with the page each came from, and gives you a short list to raise with the seller. After closing, it keeps the record of your home.
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Not buying? For ownerssellersseveral homesagents
3 things to raise with the seller
- Double-tapped breaker in the main panelInspector: Safety · page 14
- Water heater relief valve has no discharge pipeInspector: Safety · page 22
- Active drip under the kitchen sinkInspector: Repair · page 31
Your inspection, in plain English.
Pick a finding and see how Joysts explains it. On your own report, Joysts reads every page, puts your inspector's safety items first, and links each finding to its page.
“Electrical panel is a Federal Pacific Electric 'Stab-Lok.' Recommend evaluation by a licensed electrician.”
These panels are widely linked to breakers that don't reliably trip, a documented fire risk, and many insurers scrutinize or won't cover them.
Next step (Joysts' general guidance, not your inspector's)Have a licensed electrician evaluate the panel, as the report recommends, and ask your insurer whether it affects coverage.
These are common examples, not your home. Your first 3 document reads are free, enough for an inspection report. Joysts Complete ($12/mo + tax) makes document reads and questions unlimited, so you can add the seller's disclosures too.
What happens after you upload.
Your report, read page by page.
Upload the inspection report, and any contractor quotes. Joysts pulls out every finding with its system, its date and the page it came from, and puts your inspector's safety items first. Closing papers, manuals and warranties go in the same record, or you can email them to your home's own address.
Public records, added for you.
Year built, size, lot and assessed value, and permit history where your county publishes it. Flood, climate and radon risk for the address. Every item shows its source and date, and Joysts says so when a county has nothing.
Ask anything about the house.
When was the furnace installed? What did the inspector say about the deck? Is the roof near the end of its life? Joysts answers from your own documents, shows where each answer came from, and says so when it isn't sure.
Keep the record going after closing.
Log repairs and upgrades with photos, costs, contractors and warranties. Photograph the label on the water heater or the electrical panel, and Joysts reads the make, model and age and files it under the right system.
It stays useful after you move in.
System ages
How old the roof, furnace and water heater are, from your report and records.
Reminders that come due
An upkeep calendar for your home, plus weather alerts for your area.
A summary when you sell
Years later, one page on how the home was cared for, ready to share.
Guides for the weeks between inspection and closing.
What a finding means, what to ask, and what it usually costs. See every guide
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