re: What Are Your Experiences With Home Inspectors?

I am a seller and had one here for 4 hours. Extremely thorough but very nice and professional. They are a necessary "evil" but when I buy again, this company will get my business. Not sure how much the buyer had to pay for it.

If you are in the market for a home, and you hire an independent home inspector, be aware that you will probably not buy the home that they inspect for you. They will find a literal book of inconsequential things “wrong” with the home they inspect. It’s really pretty silly.

I always used an engineer for my inspections. They tend to have more knowledge about mechanical/electrical systems and more importantly the slab. Those are my main concerns along with the roof. If I can’t access the roof, I get a separate roof inspection.

If the slab, roof, mech/elec systems are good, anything else is relatively minor and easily fixed

My experience is they try and scare you out of a purchase in order to prove their worth. In terms of buying investment properties with a group, it has stalled out some purchases.

They point things out, tell you how bad they are, but then tell you they aren’t qualified to give you an estimate and defer you to other professionals. Some people read the report and get scared.

In short, I wouldn’t buy a home without one, but you must understand that every house will have issues, and that is already built into the price (hopefully). I don’t care about rotten fence posts but I’d like to know about a leaking roof. Often they treat all these things the same so, the amount of value you get out of it depends on your own judgement

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Are they all tards?

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Yep.

Home inspections have potentially huge benefits. Most of the time the report will be a few obvious Items along with 200 pages of pretty useless boilerplate verbiage. But generally what they find that needs repair can be negotiated off of the purchase price and more than cover the fee. Sometimes they will notice cracks in the masonry that indicate foundation issues, rot in the floor joists, circuits that are overloaded, roofing/hvac/water heaters that are at the end of their serviceable life, rusted attic pans that indicate mechanical/plumbing leaks, etc. It’s generally just an inspection of what they can observe but there is a lot to look at in a house. Most people will not take the time and do not have the expertise to do it themselves. It’s money well spent considering the stakes.

There are some idiots out there inspecting houses, but there are idiots in every profession. The blanket statements that all inspectors are idiots and what they do has no value is flawed.

I built a house a few years ago and put it on the market at completion. Buyers hired Sidney Chassion in Baton Rouge. His list was over 800 items of complete bullshite and personal opinions. The front door was a solid wood door. He insisted that a peep hole was required. He wanted wire mesh over all vent pipes to keep squirrels out. He said there was a major sheetrock crack in a bedroom ceiling. Turns out it was a spider web. Also he said there was a major crack in the slab. He was looking at a pencil mark left from the bricklayer laying out his brick rows.

That arse is known as the deal killer. We lost the sale because of him.

I had one tell me I needed to cut a tree down. They’re tards, one and all.

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What Are Your Experiences With Home Inspectors?

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My experience after selling two homes, they will always find the most random BS. They feel like they have to find something or their customer will feel they're ripped off. The crap he pulled out on my last one, I told the potential buyers I wasn't touching anything further, and there were many more behind them.

If you're selling, and have multiple offers, don't give in whatsoever to home inspectors.

Real Estate agent here..Fix what is broken mechanically, plumbing, electrical, and any leaks..,,,tell buyers agent that's it..If they really want the house they will accept your offer 9/10 times. Good luck.