Home inspection information is a topic many home buyers do not know much about. Again, why would the average person know much about a home inspection or even what home inspectors do when most people only buy a home every seven years or so. Many potential home buyers ask a friend or two about home inspectors, others just blindly pick a home inspector out of an on line directory without any real information about what home inspectors do, why home inspectors do what they do or even what makes home inspectors different.
Questions to ask home inspector include: How long have you been performing home inspections? While many home inspectors just starting out in the home inspection business can claim they went to a state mandated school and have a license home buyers should think back to the day after they got their drivers license and remember a license is just the minimum legal qualification to do something. Searching hard for a home inspector with a decade or more of home inspection experience will prove difficult as most home inspectors quit long before then. Those home buyers who search around and find a home inspector with 15 or more years of experience are even more lucky.
Why are years of experience necessary to inspect a home: Like any other craft home inspectors who have been in the business for ten or even fifteen years have learned the hard way what consumers expect. Like it or not over the years experienced home inspectors have a sense of what home buyers cover up, how they cover it up and how they act when things are not what they appear. That new basement carpet, fresh basement paint, clean basement floor with no dust, neat basement storage 6″ off the floor or on shelves and other signs tell an experienced home inspector look hard for signs of water leakage, because he or she knows they are likely to be there.
Home inspection testimonials are provided on a select few home inspector web sites. Why? Because few home inspectors have built up a list of a thousand or so comments placed by clients over the past few years that they are willing to share with potential clients. Fewer home inspection companies share all comments customers make with all potential new customers because they may not result in increased business. Asking a home inspector for a list of client comments is reasonable and a good way to help narrow down the list of qualified home inspectors.
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