"You will find on the home inspector web boards some posters are working for someone other than their customer and will pick and choose what to inform the customer of, decide in their own minds what codes and standards are important and the result is a vague, meaningless report and a quick sale of the house."
I don't want to push this thread in another direction, but for this statement, Ms Burns deserves an award for "Quote of the Year". Not only do they pick and choose what they report, I often get the distinct impression they are working off a bulleted list of "common violations" provided by their online/home-study college, and what's not on that list isn't noted.
