sueblackburn

Fox just did an inspection on my house. If you are a buyer you will love *** because they add and fabricate things in the report that are just not true. In my report they have scared the buyers to death saying they may need foundation repairs. An engineer says otherwise. Forgot about The Institute of Post Tensioning guidelines for gumbo soil. They through those out the window. Actually I even doubt if they have ever read them. They took a picture of a chip in the concrete that was made when the slab had to be broken for a new toilet. A simple movement of the soil 2 inches out shows it is a chip that just pops out and not a crack. The slab has no cracks behind, above or below the chip but the picture makes it look like a crack. Although their contract says they have nothing to do with building codes the inspector actually quoted the code and said there was no fan in the master bathroom and no window to open and that was against code. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY A BRAND NEW UP TO CODE FAN IN THIS BATHROOM. How did he miss it? It is loud as hell and you see in the photo he has the fan on because it is attached to the light switch and the light is on in the picture. He said they needed a whole new bathtub because a faucet handle is loose. It needs a new faucet but not a new bathtub. He has a picture on a new modern faucet showing a thumbs down because there is no mechanism to open and close the sink drain. This is a popup drain. All you have to do is push it up and down and it seals the drain. NO MECHANISM NEEDED! Says the house still has some galvanized pipe and that is a bad bad thing. Duh it was built in 1974. Most of the pipe was changed due remodeling but some galvanized remains. So if you buy a house that has galvanized pipe is the seller supposed to change all the piping in the house? The list goes on. I am having to pay other professionals to disprove his statements. Says the roof is improperly ventilated. He forgot the code on this one. The roof is 3 months old and the ventilation is up to code. He put up a lot of red flags that scared the young naive buyers. Some things were absolutely correct in his report and need to be repaired, I agree on those. My contract says the house is being sold as is but he put in so many bogus repairs and problems they want me to come down $10,000 on the price. I have another buyer willing to buy the house. I feel sorry for the first buyers because they really wanted this house but I am not coming down on the price for repairs that do not need to be done and problems that don't exist. Just saying my piece here. They charged them $800 for the inspection when most inspectors here charge at the most $400. So if you are buyer absolutely hire this inspector because their report can get an unsuspecting seller to lower the price for their clients. If you are a seller and find out they are coming to your house. Tell them no thank you.