Minnesota Home Inspection Checklist
The five things to check in any report, plus nine checks that only exist because the house is in Minnesota.
This is the Minnesota add-on to our national inspection checklist, nine extra checks for city-mandated Truth in Sale of Housing evaluations, well disclosure law, radon exposure, and disclosure-statute carve-outs 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
- Nine Minnesota-only checks covering city-mandated point-of-sale inspections, well disclosure law, radon, and seller disclosure gaps
- Built around Minnesota's own city ordinances and state statutes, not a generic list with the state name swapped in
What's inside
5 universal checks + 9 Minnesota-only checks. 14 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: Minnesota-only checks
“This gets you far enough to know when to ask a harder question, in Minnesota specifically. It won't tell you whether a TISH repair item is cosmetic or structural, how to read an arsenic test result against the state's action level, 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
- Truth in Sale of Housing | City of Minneapolis
- Minnesota Statutes § 103I.235, Well Disclosure | Minnesota Revisor's Office
- Radon in Homes | Minnesota Department of Health
- Minnesota Statutes § 513.55, General Disclosure Requirements | Minnesota Revisor's Office
- Minnesota Statutes § 513.56, Disclosure Not Required | Minnesota Revisor's Office
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