Ah quantity vs quality. Truthfully darn near everything could be covered in 3 to 4 single spaced pages with normal paragraph breaks at 10 pt font excluding photos. However, when you add the boilerplate, disclaimers, maintenance recommendations, how wonderful your inspector is, and all the other fluff, well 30 pages seems about right.
I read
inspection reports all the time in my line of work and I can tell you there is no new way of telling folks they're putting their life savings into a POS or ? We have honest, to the point, no-holds-barred reports and then we have inspector "light" the real estate agent's "user-friendly" report. Some times I get near physically ill reading their BS, but then again I'm on the clock so it ain't so bad.