Ask the Inspector

As a 30+ year home inspector in Phoenix and overseeing more than 125,000 inspections, I have some opinions about the care of a home. Generally, it can be said that:

1. Most people today are not properly maintaining their home.
2. Most people don’t understand the financial impact of a failure to maintain their home.

Here is a flipped Phoenix house we inspected that had not one, but two ceiling leaks at the first floor. Can you believe that both the hall and the master bathroom plumbing systems upstairs were leaking heavily?! It seems that…