Hold a grudge? Maybe a little sometimes.

Let if affect my inspection? Try not to.

The way I look at it, "it is what it is". The other side of this is when you go to inspect that house that belongs to your clients from last week. Do you soft peddle your findings? Do you ignore stuff you find?

When I show up to past clients houses, I tell them they had the advantage of my skills when they bought a house, and now they KNOW that the buyers of their house will have the same quality of FAIR inspection. You live by the sword, and can die at the sword.

I did have a past client tell their realtor NOT to have me inspect the house they are selling (told me lots about "their" ethics), but the realtor told him that he was better off with an accurate inspection and just deal with the issues, rather than try to hide something.

Have I hoped to find a FPE on cetain agents listings? You bet - I just didn't make stuff up.
JF