Re: Full disclosure will greatly reduce, not eliminate, liabi...

[Guest guest]

This home inspector, posing the question, is NOT correct. The responding

author is. Home Inspectors are most certainly required to call out any defects

within a property that they see. While home inspectors are not structural

engineers, termite specialists, mold testers, etc. a home inspector total

function is to evaluate a property for potential areas of concern. They are to

note

and then to possibly recommend a secondary inspection by one more specialized

in the area of concern. I am so sick of people who try to pass the buck by

saying " not my job " .

Sharon K

In a message dated 7/5/2008 9:08:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

tigerpaw2c@... writes:

Q. In one of your articles, you faulted a home inspector for failing

to disclose mold that was present in a home. As a professional home

inspector, this misinformation concerns me. Your readers should be

told that mold and all other environmental issues are not covered

under the standards of practice for the home inspection profession.

No home inspector is required to investigate or report on such

things, and your readers should be informed of that fact.

A. Home inspectors are not required to disclose mold infection in a

home. A contrary impression from a past article was a

misunderstanding. Environmental hazards are not within the scope of

a home inspection, and home inspectors are not expected to report on

such issues. But that does not let home inspectors off the hook

completely. So let's have some clarity on this issue.

[Guest guest]

my dad keeps saying that the banks inspector and the bank are liable

for not discovering mold or the contaminated well water at the second

house that they approved the loan for and for not even inspecting the

first ho,e like they were supposed too. he says the bank is supposed

to have the water tested? I talked to this inspector after that

second home made me so sick and when I told him there was a high

moisture problem and mold, he said " thats probably why it was so hot

in there, someone had the heat up really high, they were probably

tring to dry the plave out " . ??that didm't make he wonder enough to

look a little harder?? the owners had had a termite inspection done,

the inspector said he looked at the report, duh? when we pulled up so

carpet to expose rotted floor that had been replaved, after finding

the cp. that had plaved it and talking to them, there was ternite

damage bad that had been covered by carpet. I dont know about testing

the water but I dont think this inspector really did his job. of

vorse it surely didn't have anything to do with the cozy little

relationship the bank had with the sellers and the real estate man.

I have to wonder what the inspector and the realestate man talked

about that day because they surely didn't talk about the well presure

tank that was buried one inch below the ground level(beside the well

outside) and would have froze that winter and they didn't talk about

the 60+ year old contaminated well with the caseing rusted away and

that the sellers and their buddies the well driller just put 6 ft. of

new caseing and a new well cap on this old well and passed it off as

a new drilled well. no, they surely didn't talk about that.