Anyone here a home inspector?

Same thing here.

Even though you are supposed to be impartial and truthful, you sell your soul to the realtors and loan originators. Kill one too many sales, and don't expect to be recommended or referred again.
 
We hired a guy at my old job who was a home inspector.
He was a perfectionist who wanted to do his job accurately and thoroughly. He said it took him so long to do a home inspection he could barely make any money. People would to 2-4 houses in the time it took him to do one.
 
As a project manager for a GC I get reposts fairly regular most of the stuff is stupid shit and I’ve realized I can do as good a job as any of them. I also think I could do an inspection in an hour and have a report done in two hours.

Figured I could do 2-3 a week and come out good
 
Loganwayne said:
I’m talking about a normal size house. Not your damn mansion in Tennessee. It would take a damn hour just to find the front door
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Listen up hustle tits, back in NC ole loafy did our old house that we were in. I would definitely consider that a normal home size. He took like 2-3 hours on the inspection plus who knows on the report. The new software makes life lots easier but you're going to screw people out of their investment if you short change them. If you're looking to make a quick buck why not sell some of that wood you're scrounging off your job sites.

BTW, I need some 1/4" ply 😘
 
I’ve seen those dudes go either way. Last house I sold, the inspector nit picked the shit out of it. All the way down to my water heater was a couple of degrees too warm. House I currently live in, I’m not sure the dude even came. I believe he just drove by and said “yep, looks good”.
 
Wes said:
I’ve seen those dudes go either way. Last house I sold, the inspector nit picked the shit out of it. All the way down to my water heater was a couple of degrees too warm. House I currently live in, I’m not sure the dude even came. I believe he just drove by and said “yep, looks good”.
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Funny how that works, when you're the seller, they are to picky and when you're the buyer, not enough.
Why dosen't any seller complain they were too quick?
 
RatLabGuy said:
Funny how that works, when you're the seller, they are to picky and when you're the buyer, not enough.
Why dosen't any seller complain they were too quick?
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I did. Just to my realtor. She said she wouldn’t use him again or recommend him within her circle. I remember there was slight discoloration on a floor joists. It had been there since the house was new. That asshole said it was mold. It turned into a nut roll at that point. Had to pay to have a company come out and say the guy was an idiot. Lost an early sell over it, but it did sell quickly after. He popped the sides off of the jacuzzi tub and crawled under it, pointed out a microscopic gap in a piece of siding that I literally just slid it over an inch and fixed it, the list goes on. He was a really young guy who apparently had something to prove. If you’re the buyer I guess he’d be your man.
 
Guy that did (the sale) of our old house was an idiot. I left four things for him to "find" (like the cover half-off a junction box in the crawlspace). He missed them. But gigged for stupid stuff, like "exposed high-voltage wire connections in crawlspace" (which was the tap screws on the low-voltage side of the doorbell transformer). He also "tested" the smoke alarms....and had absolutely no idea that they were typically tied into the monitored alarm system, and the firetrucks (and me) would come.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Funny how that works, when you're the seller, they are to picky and when you're the buyer, not enough.
Why dosen't any seller complain they were too quick?
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I had a guy I absolutely loved using when I was buying…saved me from a couple colossal mistakes. I left town a couple years, and when I moved back, I specifically asked for ‘those guys’ for my inspection. Out of business, some Google searching found exactly your sentiment, seller reviews ‘those guys are awful, nit picked so and so’…buyer reviews ‘these guys are a god send, saved me from a ton of headaches’. As my realtor told me, they were costing too many sales, so they stopped being recommended, and they ended up having to close their doors. To me, that’s slimy as hell, and would keep me from wanting to be an inspector.
 
UTfball68 said:
I had a guy I absolutely loved using when I was buying…saved me from a couple colossal mistakes. I left town a couple years, and when I moved back, I specifically asked for ‘those guys’ for my inspection. Out of business, some Google searching found exactly your sentiment, seller reviews ‘those guys are awful, nit picked so and so’…buyer reviews ‘these guys are a god send, saved me from a ton of headaches’. As my realtor told me, they were costing too many sales, so they stopped being recommended, and they ended up having to close their doors. To me, that’s slimy as hell, and would keep me from wanting to be an inspector.
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And therein lays the rub.
Basically there is only 2 ways you can really go as an inspector.
You can be an honest guy who is really trying to do people right, and doing it bc you feel like there are too many careless bums out there and people that need a good inspection... and you're going to take too much time actually doing the inspection and researching what is necessary to make any oney, AND the realtors will hate you bc you cost them jobs.

OR
You're there to do juuuust enought work to make sure sales happen and some portio nof people walk away wit ha fuzzy feeling, but really you're just a shull for the realtors.... but you make decent money and consider it other people's problems.

It's pretty much an impossible job.

I have respect for the first guy and don't expect him to have a job for very long. The second is what we mostly have.

I guess inspectors are a lot like politicians in this way. Or teachers for that matter.
 
UTfball68 said:
I had a guy I absolutely loved using when I was buying…saved me from a couple colossal mistakes. I left town a couple years, and when I moved back, I specifically asked for ‘those guys’ for my inspection. Out of business, some Google searching found exactly your sentiment, seller reviews ‘those guys are awful, nit picked so and so’…buyer reviews ‘these guys are a god send, saved me from a ton of headaches’. As my realtor told me, they were costing too many sales, so they stopped being recommended, and they ended up having to close their doors. To me, that’s slimy as hell, and would keep me from wanting to be an inspector.
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This is the kind of inspector i had, he was a GC/perfectionist and did this on the side. The seller was pissed about all the little things he kept picking out. It was all little cosmetic stuff that needed fixing, i took care of most of it and had the seller fix a couple of bigger issues.

But meanwhile a friend just bought a house. Had leaking pipes, bats in the attic, insulation missing, hot water heater wasn't working. mold from leaking pipes in the wall. There was more i can't remember , but it was a nightmare he got his home inspection money back. This guy must have only been there 5 minutes.
 
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