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Amazingly, A Ruthless Home Inspection Is Not Everyone's Top Priority
Q: In last week's column, you listed as a way to find a home inspector asking "your real estate professional for a referral." The real estate professional (i.e. agent) has one agenda - close the sale and collect the commission. Thus the real estate professional will refer you to an inspector who will never find anything seriously wrong with the house. Sure, they'll find a few minor things, but never anything that would cause the sale to be put in danger. I know. It's happened to me. If the inspector were to blow too many deals for the agent, he would become known as a "deal killer" and wouldn't get future referrals.
Similarly, one should not use the inspector recommended by the builder for a new home. The builder has a single agenda - get your money and move on to the next one. A good, thorough, quality inspector would put that agenda at risk.
The only reason one should consult one's real estate professional or builder for a referral is to assemble a list of inspectors that you do NOT want to use!
The other recommendations are excellent. Use the inspector that found all those problems in your house that you didn't know about the last time you sold! You want the toughest, most thorough, can't-be-bought-by-anyone inspector you can find. I read your column every Saturday and look forward to tips and tricks every week. I've seen in past columns that you've graciously accepted feedback from your readers and hope that you consider this equally as well.
A: Due to space constraints last week, my similar comments made it only as far as the cutting room floor. But you describe this inherent conflict of interest more clearly and personally than I did. While what you say may be true in some cases, most inspectors and agents are scrupulously honest, so we need to be careful before coloring all with that broad brush. Also consider that it is in both the inspector's and real estate person's interest to get the best possible inspection to reduce their considerable liability and foster goodwill, although some do not realize this. Shortsighted inspectors and real estate people may collude, but fortunately it is rare. Trail attorneys help keep this in check.
Q: Belatedly referring to water drain direction and the Coriolis force, I have planted thousands of climbing bean seeds over many years. All my plants climb the pole in a counterclockwise spiral.
A: Australian seeds, no doubt.
Nasty mail has been uncharacteristically in short supply around here, but here's some of the latest:
Q: You sound like every other anti-government talk show host with your term "fire department lobby." Your term "inane requirements" especially angers me. Are suitable exits, accesses, safe wiring, and stairways "inane"? The firefighters of this and every other city work very hard, putting their lives on the line daily. They deserve more thanks than to be called the "fire department lobby" which makes up "inane requirements." Save the editorializing for the opinion page and stick to useful advice, which, I have to say, I've seen very little of in your column.
A: Inane would be seven smoke detectors in a three-bedroom, 1,300-square foot home, which happens quite often because of code requirements. There is no requirement for even one carbon monoxide detector in the same home. But how we got from a column bemoaning the lack of carbon monoxide detectors to trashing individual firefighters I do not know. Nor have I ever been an advocate of smaller stairways, unsafe wiring, or lack of egress. This is a newspaper column, and by its very nature, I give my opinion. What would Dear Abby be without an opinion?
Q: My husband and I find your comments very irritating. People living on one acre and larger lots do not add to urban sprawl, that's like saying rain causes accidents, when in fact it is people following too closely and not adhering to safe driving practices. Our houses are too close together already.
A: So if we all lived on acre lots we would be less sprawled about the countryside? If we all did live on acre lots, that would be like saying the additional freeways and parking lots aren't the reason for the congestion, it would be the slow, safe drivers, right? But at least we'd all be tightly packed together in traffic and not sprawled.
