A home inspector can run every tap and tell you drainage 'seems slow.' The camera tells you why: roots at the 40-foot joint, a belly under the driveway, an offset at the street. On pre-war Eau Claire streets, the findings rate is high enough that buyer's agents here treat the scope as routine.
The footage is negotiable value in both directions: a bad lateral priced into the deal beats a bad lateral discovered in month three, and a clean scope is a selling asset a seller can hand over with the disclosure.
Ask for the recording file and the written summary, and keep them with the house papers. When a clog comes in year four, that footage is the difference between a diagnosis and a guess.
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