Jacuzzi Guy,
You're full of it. I am a Licensed Electrician, Licensed General Contractor, certified mold assessor and remediator and a Home Inspector. When I do an inspection, I will do no work on that home nor will I refer the client to anybody else to do that work. I simply tell them to check references, licenses, bonding and insurance and point them to the phone book. There are a lot of home inspectors who have the same quals (Home Inspectors who are electricians and contractors) as me who do the same thing. Sure there are some crooks out there, but I doubt very seriously if the contracting business is clean, why all the investigative reports into contractors? What about the wood destroying organism and pest inspectors? Do you feel the same about them? What about the electrician who inspects the electrical and says there's work to be done and bids on it? Is he wrong, or is he just doing his job? Read the previous posts, sure the inspector had no right (in any home inspectors standards of practice) to say that is wasn't allowed to clean it up (unless he is a licensed electrician), but he was correct in noting the deficiency and reporting it to his client. The inspectors job is to find and report those deficiencies.
Bob
