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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
Inspections are basically worthless. They always miss huge problems and the contracts are worded in such a way that the most you can expect to recover from the inspector is your ~$500 payment for the report. Furthermore, most people go with their realtor's recommendation on inspectors. The problem with that is the realtor has an incentive for the sale to close, so they tend to prefer inspectors that don't rock the boat.
gpt
That’s a different issue, but a good inspector will catch a lot a home owner won’t. I often walk houses with friends looking to buy and give them realistic costs to fixing or renovating, and that helps but I don’t poke my head into every crevice like a good inspector would do.

I have met a lot of dumb inspectors though, I’ll always remember the inspector who claimed that both the main and back up sump pump were not working when all he had to do was lift the plunger to activate them, and garbage disposal didn’t work after he had tripped the breaker and forgot to reset it. The homebuyer came to us with a list of a bunch of stuff that didn’t work and we were shocked because everything on the list worked perfectly and got tested a bunch of times. We had to walk through the house with him and show him that 99% of the things on the list were working perfectly, and many of the things he flagged were installed exactly like the manufacturer recommended. There was a few things that did need fixing but I had never gotten a report back with so many issues, let alone a report with so many things marked as not operating when they worked perfectly.