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Home Inspections - Do you take them seriously?
I recently closed on a transaction where my clients was purchasing a house and hired a home inspector.  The home inspector wrote up the following in his report:

We wrote an Inspection & Repair report requesting this to be repaired as directed.
There are two issues that I have on how all of this went down.  First, after all of the excitement of the last two days before closing, I visited with the home inspector about how this was worded.  I think it is good for the Home Inspector to report his findings only.  I feel when they make recommendations as specific as this one was, they hold themselves to being a heat and air professional.  In talking with this inspector, which is a great guy and a good inspector, he stated that they are suppose to give a solution when they make a note of the problem.  I think that is fine but the above statement said this is a maintenance issue and should have left that off and stated that there was water in the safety, overflow pan and recommend a licensed heat and air technician to investigate for further problems, period.
Secondly, when we gave this report to ... more

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