We put our 50-year-old home on the market and had an offer within the first week. It was from a single lady, who requested a home inspection. She had a home inspector she wanted to use, so we agreed. The first clue that this was going to be bad was that he insisted we were not allowed to be at the inspection. This is very strange, because it was still our house. Then we got the report. It was over 65 pages with hundreds of items! We were shocked! We had lived there for 5 years and had no problem with any of the things on the report. We showed it to my stepfather, who is an expert with house flipping, repairs and renovations. He said most of the things on the list were due to housing code changes since the house was built, so they weren’t really problems. But, since there was now a report on record that our house had ‘problems’ we were stuck. We had to get them remedied. We had several contractors come to fix things (a small crack in the foundation that didn’t go all the way through, flashing on the chimney, GFCI outlet in the garage, etc.). All of them said the same things: this really wasn’t a problem, it wasn’t bad at all for a 50-year old house, the house was done settling and this was not an issue, they would not have said this was a problem, etc. But, since it was on the report, we had to fix it anyway, and had to pay each contractor. And, it took more time since we had to find contractors, get them scheduled, get estimates, etc. In the meantime, the lady who was going to buy our house had retracted her offer before we even got the inspection report! She wouldn’t answer any of my realtor’s calls and emails to let her know that we were fixing the “problems” on the report. It seemed very suspicious, almost as if she had buyer’s remorse and had the home inspector exaggerate on the report so she could get out of the contract. So - Do not use this Home Inspector! He ended up costing me thousands of dollars in unnecessary expenses.
