Mortgage Reverse Shingle Springs
This inspector was recommended by a realtor with almost thirty years
experience in the area. The inspection was paid for by the prospective
buyer, not the realtor, not the seller, not the mortgage company. The
inspector was an agent for the buyer, no one else, so there was no
realtor to keep happy, no mortgage company to keep happy, no other axe
to grind.
As to your last point, I feel the reverse way of looking at the
situation is more realistic. If this inspector missed such glaring and
obvious problems as those found on the roof, what else did he miss?
We too have had to go out and instruct home inspectors in how houses
are put together. One time a home we roofed was up for sale and some
inspector claimed it had two roofs on it, which it did not. This
fellow looked at the eve, at the double thickness at the eve, and
surmised that was two roofs, not knowing how a properly installed
composition asphalt shingle roof is assembled with a starter course
before the first shingle that will see the weather is installed!
Because of his incompetence the sale of a couple of hundred thousand
dollar home was postponed causing untold stress on both the seller and
the buyer. (By the way, how a house is properly roofed is part of the
prescribed coursework.)