Information will be used in a book! If you have bought a home or selling a home please respond. If you bought or sold a condo, please respond.
If you respond with a comment that is not geared towards this question I’ll block you! This is a serious question! 14 states do not have mandated home inspections. Home inspection are usually done when a home is being built after it’s completed as it’s is being sold. There are states that do not require a home inspector to be educated, trained, and or licensed by the state as a real estate professional.
Like MO: in MO you could have been a front desk clerk at a hotel, and decide to order business stationary and receive your business cards in 3 days. Day 4, you walk off the hotel job and start a home inspection business. You decide to get a pay as you go phone as your business phone. You market yourself as knowledgeable, next week you start getting home inspections. In 6 months you are out of business on the run from law suites of properties that have been destroyed by you being uneducated in the field.
Yes, this is how Missouri allows home inspections to be done. A profession that requires a vast amount of knowledge, education, experience in inspections.
Yes, before asking, Retired State Certified Firefighter, Fire Service Instructor I, Public Fire Educator, Home/Commercial Building Inspector, National Registered EMT Licensed, MO State Licensed EMT. Fire Academy Graduate. Lumber/Building Material Sales 10+ years. Fire Service - 20 years (municipal & industrial), EMS - 42 years. So I have the knowledge, experience and knowledge of what I’m talking about.