Adventures In Home Inspection (Some May Be NSFW)

[jfields]

You should charge double for a house like that. I can't imagine you can even point out all the issues..

Funny! I always get a request for a discount when a deal falls through on a house like that and the client ends up being a repeat client. My response shuts them down pretty quick.

"I didn't get to charge you extra for that last home that took me an hour longer because it was in such a sad state."

This situation was interesting. The buyer was a corporation buying the place for the property, and not the home. 97 acres off of a highway. It will be the future site of a Renaissance Fair.

 

[bfreebern]

Funny! I always get a request for a discount when a deal falls through on a house like that and the client ends up being a repeat client. My response shuts them down pretty quick.

"I didn't get to charge you extra for that last home that took me an hour longer because it was in such a sad state."

This situation was interesting. The buyer was a corporation buying the place for the property, and not the home. 97 acres off of a highway. It will be the future site of a Renaissance Fair.

Is the home inspection a requirement, if they’re just using the land and will demo the house?

 

[jfields]

Is the home inspection a requirement, if they’re just using the land and will demo the house?

No... It's never a requirement.
The corporation head wasn't there. So, I didn't get the chance to be nosy and ask what their intentions were with the house.

I live 10 minutes from there, and there's a lot of excellent land surrounding that 97 acres. Would love to have met the CEO and have obtained permission to hunt that property by inspections end.