I see a lot of buyers on the home inspection sub that are looking for guidance; "Here's my report, what should I do now?" type thing. I think a lot of buyers have the idea that home inspectors will be able to give them an idea of how much to renegotiate if there are significant defects discovered. The issue is that we can't supply that type of data; it would be a guess. How can we as inspectors, make the inspection and reporting more valuable so that it's clear to the buyer what the next steps are, how to proceed, or at a bare minimum what to focus on? I was thinking of adding a restaurant type pricing guide ($,$$,$$$) but even that would speculative and possibly opens the inspector up for liability. I have a bunch of disclaimers in my report pre-text but does that even get read? Who knows. Maybe include average repair prices for things like per square pricing for a roof install in the region.
Any ideas?
