Hopefully the title got you thinking. What I'm referring to is a Home Inspection. I'm often hired to give out the bad news. No one ever wants to hear the good in a home from the Home Inspector, right? Let's face it the inspector is there to find defects and report on them to the client.
A Home Inspection here is Reno is around $300 for an averae home but the defects can add up to thousands. Many are minor and a few found might need quick repair. On a recent inspection I found a defect that no one was expecting and it was an expensive one at that.
This house had a hip roof. A hip roof is like a pyramid and has four sides. On this house the front of the roof was visible from the ground and the rear roof was visible if you went towards the rear of the yard. Due to the proximity of the houses on either side you couldn't see the roof all that well. Up on the ladder I went. When I got up there I started to see some minor issues. The roof looked about 10 years old. As I started to walk further up the roof I started to see more and more. At the conclusion of the inspection I discovered the rear part of the roof was put on about 5 years before the front and the sides looked like they hadn't been touched for 40 years or more. The front and rear parts hadn't even been installed properly. Calling this a patch job is an understatement.
The look on the buyer and his agents face when I told them the news was one I don't like to see. All other defects seemed to became unimportant after that point. I share what I see and that's what your paying me to do. The fact is you asked for the bad news and even paid to get it. In this case it was allot better than skipping the inspection and finding out the roof was bad after the first big rain.
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