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Re: Pre-listing inspection liabilities?
Personally I think characterizing the "big stuff" from less important defects is treading a very slippery slope. Hoping to find defects with a cost limit of $100 also sounds foolish as a loose ground wire could cause a house fire resulting in personal injury or death. Basically it sounds like your team has not thoroughly thought this project through from the aspects of the legal liability that hovers over every home inspector in the country. As a long time CREIA inspector during another life we ran “This Old House” group inspections where the more experienced inspector members ran candidates and newbies through a previously inspected house and then went over the details at a group meeting after.
There is no doubt it’s an excellent teaching method for a very complicated profession that’s often convoluted by state laws and civil codes wherein not only the detection and disclosure of defects is vital, but also the method of how they are reported and the recommendations suggested by the inspector. The inspectors running such an exercise must be very careful not to muddy the waters by pushing their personal agendas or what they perceive to be their list of the most important issues, but rather stick to accepted industry protocol. Those that have been involved in home inspector litigation for any length of time cannot help but change their view of the industry by the revalation of its conundrums and pitfalls.
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