Louisiana Home Inspection Checklist
The five things to check in any report, plus eleven checks that only exist because the house is in Louisiana.
This is the Louisiana add-on to our national inspection checklist, eleven extra checks for redhibition, mineral rights that can expire automatically, coastal land loss, and the state's insurance market that don't exist anywhere else. See the general Home Inspection Report Checklist
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- The same five report checks that catch gaps between the walkthrough and the write-up
- Eleven Louisiana-only checks covering the state's civil-code buyer protections, mineral rights law, coastal land loss, and insurance market
- Built around Louisiana's civil law system, not a generic list with the state name swapped in
What's inside
5 universal checks + 11 Louisiana-only checks. 16 total in the free PDF.
Section A: Universal checks
- Confirm every space you'd expect is actually in the report.Attic, crawl space, basement, electrical panel. If the listing or the inspector mentioned it out loud, it should show up in writing somewhere.
- Check whether the report's length matches how long the inspection took.A three-hour walkthrough that turns into two pages is a mismatch worth a phone call.
- Compare what the inspector said out loud to what ended up in writing.If you took notes during the walkthrough, pull them out and read both side by side.
Section A: Universal checks
Section B: Louisiana-only checks
“This gets you far enough to know when to ask a harder question, in Louisiana specifically. It won't tell you whether a waived redhibition claim was a fair trade at the price you got, how to read a well record, or what a finding is actually worth at the negotiating table. That's the difference between noticing a report was softened and knowing what it was softened from. That's Don't Use Their Inspector.”
Sources
- Civil Code Article 2520, Warranty Against Redhibitory Defects | Justia
- Spradley v. Perez, Redhibition Waiver Upheld | Justia
- Revised Statutes Title 31, Mineral Code | Justia
- SONRIS Guides | Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy
- Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana, 1932 to 2016 | U.S. Geological Survey
- Depopulation | Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
- Civil Code Article 1833, Authentic Acts | Justia
- Revised Statutes § 9:3198, Property Disclosure Document | Justia
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