Walked away mid-inspection/vent

[Michigan CG]

If everyone treated strangers like they would want their mother to be treated the world would be a much better place.

 

[Offshore]

This song and dance has a familiar ring to it, Pete & Repeat tag teaming with the same petty insults. I suppose next we'll have an entrance from the head Z man who will submit that if the appraiser had a zone the nursery room would have been Geo scored and there would have been no room for an interior inspection.

 

[Fritz in NY]

I always state I will be at the property sometime between 2 & 3PM. The Cable guy, the Phone guy, the delivery guy in my area always have a 5 hour window to show up. Why should I narrow it down to 2 o'clock. At that point the HO knows you are in control and could be there at 2:10 or 2:50.
I always do exterior first, usually show up 10 min early to do a walk around, it's part of my MO, screw with my MO and there could be errors.
If the floors are new, sparkling etc. I'll take my shoes off, but if they are average run of the mill condition, nope, not my shoes.
The LO and lender WILL get quite a different story from the now perplexed HO, and it will effect future biz. That being said, I'd take a pix of the kids room, and resume my "normal" inspection to keep the client happy. I'm not there to make the HO happy.

 

[Don Clark]

I am having a hard time with all those that say they "find" rooms by measuring the outside first.

I usually find the rooms on the inside:icon_mrgreen: Pays to open all doors and look inside.

I always remember that for one to do what I do, open all doors, look inside closets, bathrooms, and all other rooms, and take as many photos as I want.......usually requires a warrant. I think a little courtesy is a good offset.

 

[CANative]

Please do explain how doing the exterior first would have revealed a 1/2 bath on the inside? I usually just open all the interior doors and look inside. I note on my sketch where there are exterior doors and open them and look outside. When I get outside and there is an exterior door that I have not opened from the inside, I open it from the outside.

I am having a hard time with all those that say they "find" rooms by measuring the outside first.

I draw the exterior on a 10-grid and then draw the interior walls to scale. Even small areas get accounted for.

 

[Kulzer and Co]

This song and dance has a familiar ring to it, Pete & Repeat tag teaming with the same petty insults. I suppose next we'll have an entrance from the head Z man who will submit that if the appraiser had a zone the nursery room would have been Geo scored and there would have been no room for an interior inspection.

Petty insults?

 

[Mr Rex]

I always start inside and can find "hidden rooms" just fine. I was doing an appraisal inspection once and the homeowner was tagging along. I went into the master BR then bath, looked in the walk in closet, went back and looked in the hall, went back and looked at the BR, bath, and closet when the guy asked what was wrong. I said there's some spaced missing. He said damned you are good, you are the first person to find it. He proceeded to pop a latch on a corner cabinet in the bath and the whole thing opened like a door to reveal a "safe" room about the size of a walk in closet. This was about when the movie "Safe Room" was out and the guys wife was afraid when he went out of town etc. In any case, I'm unsure what difference measuring the exterior first would have done.

Can, why not start inside and work in reverse?

 

[Elliott]

I can set 5 appointments and hit each one at the time I said I'd be there and even clean the gutters on each one. Does that make me a bad appraiser?

 

[Mr Rex]

Do you go inside or measure the outside first? Shoes or no?

 

[CANative]

Look, I'm only in this thread because it's fun to argue over dumb things. But I'm set in my ways and I: Pull up to the house and get out of the car; Stand in the street and take a picture then turn around and take a picture the other way; take front photos from angles; knock on the door and introduce myself and tell them what I'm going to do - measure the outside and take pictures then I'll come back to the front door and knock; once inside I always start the interior sketching from the front door and work my way back; once I'm done with the sketch I go around the inside again taking pictures.

I get grumpy when the occupant wants me to do it their way but sometimes I give in.

What's the problem? :Emoticon_hug: