My two favorite types of Clients are those who know nothing, like first-time home buyers, and those who are quite knowledgeable, like attorneys, Realtors, and home inspectors.
(It's the ones who have a little knowledge who can be dangerous -- LOL.)
I've heard some other inspectors say that they would never do an inspection for another inspector because they might miss something. I've heard many of those same inspectors say the same thing about having an attorney or a Realtor as a Client. I guess for those inspectors it comes down to not doing an inspection for someone who might be even more knowledgeable about home inspections, and the legal aspects thereof, then they are themselves.
My own personal opinion is that if they are afraid of missing something, then they either need to get some better E&O insurance or perhaps even find another job.
My Client early this morning was a former home inspector. We had talked on the phone last week and we both thought we were a good match for each other. He was, however, my first Client who crawled under the house with me. In fact, my main flashlight gave out while we were under the house so we just used his so that I wouldn't have to crawl all the way back through the crawl space to go to my car and get my other flashlight.
Gotta love those helpful Clients.
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Only an inspector (or perhaps a spelunker) would use the phrase "my main flashlight".