Not allow the seller to be there during the inspection? Sorry, it IS their house, and I AM THE GUEST.

Now, if there are "others" there, I take my clients aside and ask them who these people are, and if they are comfortable with me discussing my findings in front of them. Many times they are just fine with it. They WANT the sellers to hear what I have to say.

If they are not, then I tell them that I will only talk to them when we are alone, or go to a McDonalds after and discuss the whole thing. If engaged by the seller, or agent, or other party, I will NOT argue and will leave if asked or it gets heated.

Over the years I have been asked to leave a house by the seller a few times. I've had the seller forbid the buyer from being in the house during the inspection a couple times.

If there is someone at the inspection I can't place, then I ask who they are and why are they there (I usually ask my clients if they know that person first). One time it was the agents brother from out of town, and he was thinking of getting into inspections and just wanted to hang around (but she told everyone up front and he kept his mouth shut and stayed out of the way).

I think the first time the "other" opened his mouth and made a comment on something I said, I would have found out who he was, why he was there, and told him to keep his thoughts to himself as nice as I could.

JF