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Welcome To My World Redux
My last post prompted this response from a Florida Home Inspector: Joe – I also experience a claim wherein a buyer, who just so happened to be a litigation attorney, stated that there were damages to the roof in a specific location in the house he had just purchased, which we inspected. He demanded that…
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Welcome To My World
A home inspector whom I have known for a couple of years came up to me at Ken Compton’s recent Workshop in Naples, Florida and said “I have to run something by you.” He had gotten a demand letter from a local attorney seeking damages for alleged failure to detect mold. Not surprisingly, the underlying…
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Comment Sense
A recent republication of an archival post about why home inspection claims always fail prompted this comment from Iowa home inspector John Mauch. So, why should we carry insurance? Fortunately I have not had a claim and know several inspectors [who do not] carry insurance for the reasons you already stated. While most claims against…
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Still Waiting
A lot of home inspectors are surprised, nay, astonished when I tell them that I almost never see a home inspection claim that is legitimate. But it is true. It will be five years this Thanksgiving Day since I started squashing these ridiculous claims. Almost 300 claims later, I have still seen only 3 claims…
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In Your Deposition, Be Frank, Not a Weiner
As someone who writes on a regular schedule – every Monday and Thursday – I often never know what I will write about until the deadline becomes an almost palpable looming presence. The hardest part for me is actually selecting a topic. Once I have done that, the post almost writes itself. Fortunately, current events…
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Should You Refuse To Do A Home Inspection For An Attorney?
That’s the title of a discussion I ran across on one of the many Home Inspection Group Forums on LinkedIn. The difference of opinion and experience expressed by inspectors who responded to the query was all over the map. One inspector who has never refused to perform an inspection for a lawyer has never had…
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Happy Anniversary!
As hard as it is for me to believe, today marks the first anniversary of this website. One year ago, at the urging of my very young, very talented and very savvy internet media advisors, I took a giant leap of faith and launched this website which is dedicated to providing home inspectors with timely,…
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Neutralizing The Client From Hell
My two recent posts on whether E & O Insurance is a waste of money have engendered a brisk meta discussion on a couple of the LinkedIn group discussion boards for home inspectors of which I am a member and on which I posted links to the two posts. Here and here. In my experience,…
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Redundancy, Importance Of
Three-and-a-half years ago, I was relaxing at the pool of the Courtyard Nashville Brentwood after having delivered a Law and Disorder Seminar that morning, when all of a sudden, all the lights went out in the hotel. Hmmm, I thought but continued reading the Wall Street Journal. A few minutes later the lights came back…
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They’ll Be Naming Hospitals After Me
Lady Agag and I took a much-needed three-day, two-night mini-getaway to the Jersey Shore’s Irish Riviera this past week to re-charge our batteries and to celebrate my birthday and our wedding anniversary. Both milestones actually occurred September 19 but due to a speaking engagement on September 20 at the ASHI New England Fall Conference and…
