A thorough inspection report on a fifty-year-old house will contain thirty to sixty findings. That is normal, and it is not a list of things the seller should fix.

Most of it is maintenance: a downspout discharging too close, a missing GFCI, sixty feet of gutter that wants clearing. Those are yours now. They belong in a diary, not in a renegotiation.

What the summary page is for

The first page of every report I write has the short list: safety items, and anything that materially changes what the house is worth. Usually three to six things. That page is the one to read twice and the one to take to your agent.

How to use it

Pick the two or three that actually matter to you and ask for those, with a number attached from a contractor rather than from me. A seller looking at three specific requests with prices next to them says yes far more often than a seller looking at a forty-item PDF, which reads as a demand to fix the whole house and is usually answered with a flat no.