Originally Posted by
Matt Fellman
Judging a report's quality or quantity by the number of pages is pretty poor so to answer the OP's question, Yes, that is poor info.
You could use lots of big picture or only a few small ones and greatly change the overall size of the report.
I completely agree. Just because your report is 35 pages does not necessarily mean it is a better report then a 25 page report.
Originally Posted by
Matt Fellman
Try to keep the disclaimers and all the blah, blah about what you didn't do in the contract. A bunch of fineprint in the report makes it difficult to understand and read
I disagree some here since most inspectors that use our system have what we call a Category Comment before each Category of the report that is usually a few sentences explaining what they do or don't do in that Category. An example would be at the beginning of the "Kitchen" Category saying that we don't inspect refrigerators, microwaves etc. It is just more convenient for the client to find that info there instead of reading through a 5 page contract explaining what they do or don't do in each room or section of the house.
Originally Posted by
Matt Fellman
Try to keep the check boxes, grids, symbols and other junk to a minimum. Again, it makes reports confusing and hard to follow. I'm not saying don't have any but there should be more to the report than just a table and check boxes.
Agree completely...does anyone like the HomePro book and all it's symbols ?
Jeff Knight