Inspecting the home is not just something you do when buying. It should be something you do every year. This is a great checklist for home repair inspection around the house developed by the University of Missouri.
You'll especially want to see diagram of construction terms found at the bottom of the Inspection Checklist for Home Repair page.
The checklist is also available here (Home Construction Checklist) as an Adobe PDF file if you wanted to save it or print it out.
