Got a call on Thursday morning to schedule an inspection. Just by luck we had an opening the next morning (for our inspector), and set it for 9am.

At 8:30am on Friday I get a call from the buyer saying he wanted to cancel the inspection. Seems his Realtor couldn't get there to open the house. OK, I call my guy and he is almost to the house - he turns around and heads home.

About 10:30 the buyer's wife calls and said she didn't know why her husband canceled, because it was their last day to have the inspection. Then she said that they had a structural engineer friend look at the house the night before, and they were going to use his report.

I told her that unless he was a licensed home inspector, his report would be worth less than the paper it was written on. She said that he was a licensed SE. I told her that unless he was a licensed HOME INSPECTOR, it didn't could.

Could I come out today? I then told her that I had already told my inspector the job was canceled and he might have gone fishing. She said that I was being rude.

I told her that I was NOT being rude. Rude is when someone cancels a job a half hour before it's scheduled. But, go ahead and see when she can get the Realtor to open the house. She called back in a few minutes and asked if we could be there at 4pm.

I told her that not only could our inspector not be there at 4pm, that he wasn't going to come there at any time, and she could take her business elsewhere.

Felt good to hang up the phone.
JF