In this video home inspector Tom Corbett contends that “the vast majority” of problems he encounters occur in the common areas – and that developers are fighting to keep home inspectors from doing their work properly by limiting access to those common areas.
See more of our wide-ranging interview with Tomacor‘s Tom Corbett at our YouTube playlist.
I apologize but I have not listened to this video clip… but personally, I have not run into any problems with inspector access for my over 36 deals in the last two years.
As ong as you arrange ahead of time to make sure you can get into any locked area or onto the roof, what problems?
This is anecdotal of course, so maybe someone else has had an issue outside of Tom here.
That’s the nice thing about buying in a buyer’s market. If the seller protests any aspects of the inspection, on to the next seller who actually wants to sell.