On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:49:12 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 6/25/2017 1:48 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 1:30:28 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 04:47:06 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:54:21 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Friday, June 23, 2017 at 8:14:06 AM UTC-4, uglyhouse101 wrote:
replying to Ben, uglyhouse101 wrote:
This should have been caught When you had your home inspection during your Due
Dilligence period. Home Inspectors look critically at roofs for such issues.
I would read through your home inspection report and contact them if you still
have any concerns. They can come out and explain what you are seeing.

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And they will also explain how even if they missed it, their contract says that you can't come after them.

Yes, aad I know of home inspectors that don't go up on the roof, so if
you didn't see it before you bought the house, neither did he. Too bad,
so sad.
For an intelligent homebuyer like most on this list, the majority of
home inspections are a TOTAL waste of money and time. Better to take a
few of your good buddies along to look at the house _ they are likely
to catch more than the inspectors will, and you'll be buying them a
few beers anyway.

I would disagree. In most cases you can recover the cost of the
home inspection and then some in reductions from the seller.
And it's a lot more likely a seller is going to knock off $1000
for things that an inspector finds than those that a buyer and
his buddies claim need addressing. It's worked for me.


That seems to be the main reason inspections are done and some lenders
require it too. When I was buying you did your own inspection and
maybe brought along dad or an uncle. Never used one so I don't now the
real value of their work.
I've done the "pre-inspection" for several people who then hired a
home inspector who missed every serious issue I pointed out, and
caught a few things like cracked switch plates and poorly attached
trim, and a missing crank on a casement window - missing the fact that
the "redone" wiring was a total disaster and the roof, although it
looked good from a distance, was about 5 years past it's "best before
date" with serious issues in the valleys. Not to mention one of the
carport posts was not carrying any weight because it was roted off
under the recent aluminum cladding, and the asphault driveway was
almost the consistency of gravel. ( that's just on the latest one) A
total waste of, IIRC, $450.

There is ONE home inspector in the area I would trust to do an
adequate home inspection - a former building contractor and developer
who's been raising a bit of a "**** storm" in the provincial property
inspection circles for several years. Real estate selling agents are
not happy when he's on the job.