re: Need help with house buying

Put in an offer contingent on inspection. Then inspect the house. If the house is shite, use contingency to bail and recoup escrow.

Edit - You should always get a qualified licensed home inspection. But if you walk in and hate the house, you don't need to pay someone to walk away. You can act as your own inspector.

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Also pretty sure contingent upon financing is written into almost all real estate deals as obviously the deal won't close without i

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In hot markets or when it’s a FSBO (no agents involved), the purchaser has to make sure that contingency is there, if they want it there. Without it (or if you let the contingency expire without giving proper notice or following the financing conditions), it becomes a cash contract. Some buyers want the contingency, while others don’t need to line up financing and want to present a strong(er) cash contract.

Even on a boilerplate Realtor’s contract, there’s a section where that contingency has to be activated. That’s how they are in VA anyway.

Just something to keep in mind...