[quote=threadkiller]I’ve had 2 inspections done in the last year and I’ll have to say I didn’t learn anything I didn’t already know. So I think alot of it depends on who is asking for the inspection. Most people have no clue what is holding up their house, so for most people it is probably money well spent. I personally will never have another one done, one guy didn’t/wouldn’t even crawl under the house. Ask a prospective inspector if he is willing to do this,if not keep looking![/quote]
Wow – how do you assess a house without crawling in the crawl space (if there is one.)
I had inspections on my first two houses. I was single and in a different state that my dad (who would have done just as good of a job.). I didn’t bother with my current house because (a)- we bought from my father so we had the previous 35 years of maitenance records and (b)- my husband’s an architect who worked construction during and just after college – so he was able to assess things from a structural point of view. I did get value from the first two inspections – they gave me an idea of what “big ticket” items were likely to go in the near term (a 40 year old oil furnace for example) and what was more cosmetic. The inspection in WA state – they crawled under the house and caught some joists that needed sistering. The inspection in WA caught a small leak on the water heater. Both medium ticket repairs that were passed onto the seller.
