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Time Is Of The Essence
Recently a home inspector contacted me after receiving notice that his firm was being sued for failing to detect mold in a home that he had inspected several months before. Of course, he was not conducting a mold inspection. And the claimant was not the one for whom he had performed the inspection. And folks…
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The Way-ay-ting Is The Hardest Part
As I mentioned last time, I had returned home from a few days of R and R at the shore to a torrent of fresh home inspection claims, several of which were actual lawsuits. The lawsuits were all multiple-defendant affairs comprising multiple counts and exceedingly vague allegations that made it impossible to ascertain exactly what…
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Tremendous Marketing Opportunity For The Confident Home Inspector
A friend forwarded to me an article, entitled Why home inspections have become more important, that ran May 10, 2012 in the Washington Post’s Real Estate section. The author is a Washington area attorney specializing in real estate law who wrote the article for the benefit of potential home buyers. You can read the article…
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Contradictions and Predictions
My friend Hugh Gilmore is a local Philadelphia celebrity and, I hasten to add, justifiably so, whom I met rather serendipitously about a year ago. He writes a widely read column, in one of our local community newspapers, that celebrates the quaint pastime of reading books. Imagine. So that’s how I first came to “know”…
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Groundhog Day
One of the collateral benefits of being an itinerant speaker is having the ability to catch up with friends who have pulled up stakes and scattered across the continent while I happen to be moving about the country fulfilling a speaking invitation. As you read this, I will be en route to Columbia, South Carolina…
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Is E & O Insurance for Home Inspectors Really Necessary?
A reader recently wrote to me: “One quick question comes to mind in reviewing your E and O insurance for home inspectors blog. You clearly state a number of times that virtually all claims against home inspectors lack merit and/or can basically be quashed at the point of the initial demand. This being true, why then would one even…
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The White Bull
When I first launched this website, my biggest concern was whether I would have enough material to meet my self-imposed twice-a-week publishing goal. I didn’t want to have a site that inspectors would come to once, never to return which is the justly deserved fate of static sites that never change after their initial publication.…
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Myth # 5 All Home Inspector Insurance Companies Are The Same
There is nothing that boosts my confidence in the absolute need for the service that I provide this industry quite like going back out on the road with my home inspector training at the Law and Disorder Seminar and meeting a bunch of full-time professional home inspectors and listening to their stories of E and…
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No Good Deed for Home Inspectors Goes Unpunished
When it comes to unreasonable, hard-to-please consumers, in my opinion you really have to go some distance to top the average house buyer. Throw in unreasonable and vindictive and you have a good idea of the sort of nincompoops to whom I have lately had the pleasure of explaining the facts of life: to wit,…
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Myths That Home Inspectors Should Stop Believing
Myth # 1: Only Incompetent Inspectors Ever Have Claims In these next series of posts, I am going to be debunking several myths that home inspectors should stop believing about their profession and the law. One such belief is that only incompetent inspectors ever have professional liability claims. So if you’re a good inspector you…
