Inspector Screws Up - Gets Featured on CTV

[hausdok]

Every inspector's nightmare - You miss something on an inspection and later find yourself featured on the evening news with a lovely young lady talking about how your mistake has taken her life savings. Ouch!

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How do you avoid something like this? It's very simple, really; inspect every single house slowly and carefully and like you were inspecting it for your own parents.

[Richard Moore]

"There was nothing wrong with the inspection or the inspection report,"

It can't be much fun getting ambushed by a TV crew, but it seems pretty clear that that is nonsense.

[Robert Jones]

I don't know about you, but, if my client scheduled an inspection for a certain time and didn't show up, I wouldn't just do the inspection. I have had quite a few inspections where my client wasn't in town, but, that is different than a mix up in schedule. I am curious to hear the outcome. Looks to me like h dropped the ball big time on this one. 40k is a nice amount of money for a home repair.

[hausdok]

Hi Rob,

I know it seems strange to you and me, but there are lots of places where it's routine for an inspector to do inspections without the clients there and then have them show up somewhere around the end of the inspection. Maybe this is one of those cases; still, it's hard to miss the kind of second stage rot that's obvious at that soffit unless you don't even bother to look for it.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[Erby]

They've added another segment to it and plan another one tomorrow.

[Brandon Whitmore]

I know it seems strange to you and me, but there are lots of places where it's routine for an inspector to do inspections without the clients there and then have them show up somewhere around the end of the inspection

That's how I typically do it-- at least 75% of the time.

[hausdok]

Here is segment three of the series.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[John Kogel]

"Lawyer Frank Eadie says new fast track court rules will make suing for amounts under $100,000 faster and cheaper. May 20, 2010."

Gotta love that. Now watch the sharks come out.

[MMustola]

It seems like every time a case like this comes up we never get to see the inspection report. At this point we don't know if the inspector missed something or not. I'm surprised the reporter does not hold up the report and say, "see, the inspector said everything was ok".

[TheBreather]

It seems like every time a case like this comes up we never get to see the inspection report. At this point we don't know if the inspector missed something or not. I'm surprised the reporter does not hold up the report and say, "see, the inspector said everything was ok".

Typical head-hunting reporting, nothing to show any other side of the story.