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5 Steps to a Good Night’s Sleep and Higher Inspection Fees
The number one complaint that I get from Home Inspectors on the home inspector training Law and Disorder Tour is about E & O Insurance companies for home inspectors. Their perceived default claim posture of caving in and paying unmeritorious claims – usually with a hefty contribution from the inspector pursuant to the deductible feature…
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Clarifications
When I was studying calculus in college, I thought that the text book that we used belabored a lot of points that seemed obvious to me. The book would take three or four steps to illustrate some mathematical operations that the professor would illustrate in one or two. I found this disconnect a bit annoying…
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Avoid This Deadly Ménage Á Trois
At last Thursday’s home inspector training Law and Disorder Seminar in Wall Township, New Jersey, one of the inspectors in attendance was currently a defendant in a multi-defendant lawsuit. As the seminar wore on and I was recounting all the reasons that claims against home inspectors by their former clients never have any merit, this…
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Is E & O Insurance for Home Inspectors Really Necessary?
A reader recently wrote to me: “One quick question comes to mind in reviewing your E and O insurance for home inspectors blog. You clearly state a number of times that virtually all claims against home inspectors lack merit and/or can basically be quashed at the point of the initial demand. This being true, why then would one even…
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New Year’s Resolutions [For Home Inspectors]
The general over-the-top excitement bordering on mass hysteria that surrounds the turning of the calendar from one year to the next has always puzzled me. In fact, so un-into it am I that I am seldom awake when it happens. To me the whole cultural phenomenon is a vast waste of calories that could be…
