Choose a professional Home Inspector

You know what stupid is? I will tell you. Stupid is using price shopping for the reason to price a Home Inspector. It does not matter if you are the seller and hiring a Home Inspector to do a pre-listing inspection, or a buyer hiring a Home Inspector to perform the buyer’s inspection. There is no substitution for a professional, not even a few bucks. A non-professional inspection will end up costing you more money than you saved hiring the lowest bidder.

Okay, Back to Mr. Know-it all. A funny thing he put on the report was, “there was no access to the crawl space” and recommended access to the crawl space prior to closing. This set my closing date back two weeks. A professional Home Inspector would have given this advice, if in fact the house were built on a crawl space. The problem with what Mr. Know-it-all said, is the house was built on a slab on grade, and not a crawl space. This bad reporting cost the expense of hiring a professional inspector to find that there was not a crawl, but indeed a slab construction. So, in this case, it cost the lending company, who by the way paid Mr. Know-it all to do a bad job, the expense of hiring another Inspector and set the closing back two weeks.

So hire professionals from the start! This will save you time and money. . Case and point!