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I wish I knew that we should have put in new flooring before moving in because we never changed out the icky old green carpeting anyway.
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How to find a competent home inspector (or learn to do it myself). My experience with home inspectors (and my son's) is that many of them must get their training out of a Cracker Jack box insert.
My inspector never told me the polarity was reverse on the outlets in part of the house. When I called and told him, he said it does not matter because it is alternating current! Huh? How ignorant can a home inspector be? It really matters. Do I want the hot lead on my lamp going to the tab down inside the light socket, or to the threaded metal part that I very well could touch while screwing a bulb in? Alternating current still has a hot lead.
My inspector never told me the polarity was reverse on the outlets in part of the house. When I called and told him, he said it does not matter because it is alternating current! Huh? How ignorant can a home inspector be? It really matters. Do I want the hot lead on my lamp going to the tab down inside the light socket, or to the threaded metal part that I very well could touch while screwing a bulb in? Alternating current still has a hot lead.
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I had a socket with switched polarity in my house. It took longer to move the furniture to get at the socket than it took to remove the socket and fix the wiring.
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That a lot of the home condition report is about the inspector covering their rear end than things I necessarily need to know. My home report indicated a section of chimney that wasn't adequately supported, to the point my mortgage lender wanted me to assure them I'd get it fixed within six months. My lawyer said it probably wasn't anything to worry about because the lack of records indicated it had been like that for at least a decade and probably longer, and that unless it could be shown to be unstable the only legal remedy to force me to fix it would be if it were considered structurally unstable. I never did get it done, when I remortgaged the new lender didn't even look at the property before approving the loan, and it's been exactly how it was for another couple of decades. By now any approval that should have been gained before doing the work is deemed to have been granted retrospectively.