“Home inspectors don’t typically look at common areas, even though that’s where the majority of a building’s problems occur. In my experience, that’s because real estate agents discourage it. They’d rather not have an inspector turn up a rash of deficiencies that will give a buyer cold feet or launch a new round of negotiations with the seller. And inspectors too frequently go along with this ploy so that agents will continue to send them referrals.”
– Tom Corbett, president of Tomacor, Inc., a property consulting company specializing in commercial and residential property inspections and expert witness work, in a conversation with Yo
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