HOME INSPECTION

A home inspector is a person between several rocks and hard places, e.g., real estate brokers who do not want a deal-killing inspection or inspector (so you'd better not find something that'll kill the deal or you won't get hired again); buyers completely ignorant of design and construction; numerous building codes; overlapping building codes; conflicting building codes; poorly written building codes; changing building codes; pressures to do extensive physical discovery and analysis in a very brief time period; the threat of litigious owners; the threat of litigious insurance companies; the threat of revoked licenses; the threat of revoked insurance; natural human inability to see through roofs, ceilings, walls, floors, and foundations, the recognition of the differences between design standards and building codes; the trump of experience over the written word.  AG