What are some of the things you come across doing HI's that just irritate you on a regular basis?

Don't hold back.

rick

Time spent - money earned!

Rick

You did not just ask me not to hold back did you. Watch out, you might just get what you ask for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NUMBER ONE

When the client wants to be up your backside the entire inspection thinking they are actually contributing to the inspection.

I love my clients because I love my job and they pay me to do it and make a living. They are such darlings

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Ted Menelly
"Castle"
Home Inspection Services

My pet peeve? The client that tells me that they will be running late for the inspection, but that they will be there. Then shows up as I am loading my truck up after 3 hours of crawling through this GEM that they are considering, then they want to walk through every item that I have looked at, plus they always have their own list of items that they would like to see addressed.

Alton Darty
ATN Services, LLC
ATN Services : Home

Clients who are over at the furnace or other system asking questions about that system while you are inspecting another system such as the electrical panel.

Clients who bring their brats and let them run around the house during the inspection.

Barking dogs, while you are trying to explain things to your client.

Vendors who do not leave the house while you are there inspecting.

Vendors who do not have adequate lighting in the basement.

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No utilities even though you asked both realtors and buyer to make sure they are on for the inspection.

Ditto
Ditto

Ditto

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Jim Luttrall
Mr. Inspector.net, Inc.
Allen, Texas 75002

Drooling , sobbing, crying, screaming, begging, BROKERS

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It Might have Choked Artie But it ain't gone'a choke Stymie!
Billy J. Stephens HI Service
Memphis TN.

I try not to let anything bother me, however.......
1. When a Realtor is late and says, "Can't you just start on the outside? I'll be there is an hour - or so".
2. When the Seller tries to talk over everything you are telling your client. Seller, Realtor, Parent, handyman, ANYONE.
3. Kids that mess with my computer and parents watch them and not say anything. NO THERE ARE NO GAMES ON IT!!!!!! AND IT'S MINE - SO KEEP YOUR DAMN HANDS OFF FROM IT!!!!!!!
4. Like Alton said, the client that wants a blow by blow description of every single thing you looked - not just the problems, but everything you looked at.

The constant need for some people to justify or explain everything in their house.
"It was like that when we bought it, and we never changed it"
"We've never had a problem with it"
"That was the way the contractor, handyman, uncle john installed it"

I want to tell them that I just don' t care why or how long it's been that way, it's still wrong.

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Jim Robinson
New Mexico, USA

Here's a few of mine and not in any particular order:

1. Cheap ass mini-blinds
2. Toilets not flushed
3. Decorative stuff on toilet lids
4. Sinks piled full of dishes
5. Tampon wrappers left out on the sink
6. Clothes piled up on the floor of closet and laundry room
7. Dog crap in the yard
8. Cat litter boxes (I'll never understand them)
9. Ashtrays full of butts
10. Buyers who show up when your leaving and want you to show them everything that will be on the report.
11. Realtors who keep interrupting and saying things like "Thats not a deal killer is it?" or "He's just covering his a$$."
12. Comments like "I wished I made a 150.00 an hour" or "How do I become a Home Inspector"
13. Repairmen at the Inspection
14. People who ask you not to wear your shoes.
15. Hairs in tubs and showers
16. Neighbors asking "Who's buying the house, are they white?"
17. Teenagers at home with their friends
18. Sellers who can't leave cause their kids are sick.
19. Can you do the baby's room last while their sleeping.
20. Dust a inch thick on ceiling fan blades.
21. Windows that have never been cleaned
22. People who insist on telling me how bad their 1st. home inspection went.
23. Do you give discounts? I'm a teacher, police officer, fireman, have several kids, ..............
24. Buyers who bring their complete family tree with them on the inspection.
25. Fathers of Buyers at the inspection.

I'm sure there is a few more, but I feel better already.

Rick

Kids whose stereo vibrates my car............and they're 3 cars behind me
People who can't talk and drive at the same time ( mobile phone booth )
People who don't know what that extra lane with the big curved arrow is for
People who think the lane with the big curved arrow is a passing lane
People who think all a home inspector does is check for dust and dirty floors
People who think poor decorating should be written up in the report

Realtors running around trying to fix things as you find them.
Breakers labeled "Dinning Room" and 'Drier".
Clients who are contractors or architects.
Realtors who "underestimate" square footage.

26. Boyfriends of the buyer.

I usually mention there is a surcharge of $200 for dads and boyfriends present at inspection

No house numbers

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Barry Thirtle

This afternoons inspection no one at all was suppose to be there.

The house is being bought cash by one person and selling it to another family. The secondary buyer showed up 10 minutes after I got there. Absolutely no English what so ever. The mother, not the father asked a thousand questions thru their 16 year old daughter. Can you say early afternoon till after 6 pm for a 1300 square foot slab and I could not do the report on site.

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Ted Menelly
"Castle"
Home Inspection Services

Barry

Thats a good one. I tell people to put a house number up the minute they move in because seconds count in an emergency! Especially at night. I was so peeved I put a blurb in my report.

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SInce I havent any inspections under my belt yet excet for a few ride alongs and mock inspections, I havent experienced any of these yet. But I cant wait to enjoy these annoying habits for myself.

Thanks guys, you have given me alot to look forward to in my new career

As I enter the home and meet the sales agent and she says "How much longer do you think this will take as I have a showing in an hour?"

mlc

How about electrical panels that have been painted over? It takes about 10 minutes to cut away the paint and remove the cover. Yesterday, the panel was even caulked!

Robert Wittenberg
HomeFront Inspection
Renton, WA