Inspection

[Joe D.]

Do you all recommend using home inspector or contractor for inspection of home under contract?  No obvious major issues with home but want to get a second set of eyes on it.  I was thinking of using a contractor to walk through but is there any benefit to using a home inspector to document and help justify if you choose to go back to sellers to try and negotiate?

Also in Detroit area (wester Wayne County) if you have any inspectors you would recommend.

Thanks

[Troy Fisher]

Originally posted by @Ryan Dossey:

I would have the contractor doing your renovations walk through the property. When we bought our home we use a regular inspector. He missed major issues that even a crappy contractor would have caught. Ex: Our Yard was poorly graded on one side of the home so that any time there was a slight rain the crawl space became a swimming pool. His quote on the crawl space : "Great crawl space hasn't been wet in a very long time. No water issues." 

I hopped into the crawl space after closing and there were parts for 5 or 6 cheap subpumps laying around. Why do we think that is? 

 Just like Contractors or any Industry, there are good ones, and bad ones. The inspector should have seen the grade, and gone into the crawl space noting the sump pumps.  Sounds like you had a really bad Inspector, and a good Contractor.