Home Inspection - Why You Need One

[Cylenchar]

Ima,

We have two very different bases of experience here: You know your husband, who sounds like a stickler for detail and making sure it's done right.

I worked for a home builder who had 10,000(No, that's not a typo, I said Ten Thousand) different window designs that they used. When you have that much variation you cannot tell me everything is the same level of quality.

[Ima saver]

Cylen, I agree with you. My husband is a perfectionist. That is why he does not want anyone to work with him. He wants it done right, the first time.
Where I live, until they began inspection and licensing a year ago, everyone here was a builder. They did not even know how to hold a hammer. Our grading guy built several spec houses. So did all the realtors. Now they are all sitting on them.
Not too many of the builder's got licensed. My husband was only number 399 in the entire state of Georgia.

[snafu]

ISaver, the clients who buy from your DH are fortunate and I wish contractors here worked to his standard. For 15 yrs. we lived across the street from a city inspector. One of the guys to verifies a house meets code before it can be sold. He would leave for work at 7 am ea. morning and return home before 8 a.m. That is he signed in, picked up his 'call' sheet and returned home. Between 3-4 p.m. he would leave again, presumably meet the foreman from the various builders at a convenient spot and sign off sheets to release homes to be sold. One day I stopped at a nearby cafe to meet a friend and there was our neighbor, having a cold drink and slowly guys came in, see him, have a cold beer as they busily signed papers.

I wanted to call City licensing but I didn't have a picture , couldn't prove anything and DH insisted I do nothing...except hire a house inspector and make it conditional on any offer to buy a house.

Point is, it's all based on personal experience.

[parklandgroupoh]

It is really sad to find out that there are many inspectors out there who do not care enough to do a quality job. This ends up being a great financial loss for all that are involved except for the inspector of course. I learned this a long time ago from this great lady, she is a Columbus real estate agent and has gotten me out of a rut more times that I can count.