Another point shows the difference between home inspections, usually performed by private-party HI's, and a "Holmes inspection" documenting evidence of inspector negligence during the charitable-foundation remodel.
The viewer is shown the empirical incompetence of Home Inspectors in North America, who repeatedly fail to provide any negotiating leverage before buyers purchase these residential train wrecks.
If sellers wait for the right buyer to miss the defects and pay cash, mortgage insurance is also avoidable, and no record exists of any previous failed inspections when performed by private HI's.
What Holmes does not explain, is how buyers can convince sellers to let city or fire-marshal inspectors (AHJ) on premise after private HI's find problems, so public records and corrections are enforceable.
With public-budget crisis taking cue from the private sector, and eviscerating labor and experience in building departments, the superior experience of the AHJ inspector may also become less clear.
