I don’t think shorts are a problem but I personally wear pants most of the time just to avoid abuse on my knees and legs. It’s plenty hot in Maui but I can stand pants for a couple hours. I’ll sometimes wear shorts for an interior condo inspection where I won’t be crawling and attic or crawl space.
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For God sake hide that small package!
Robert !
I wear xxxl underwear! 
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JJ Have you been spying on me again?
I wore a pair a Carhartt shorts to an inspection once years ago on a 95° day. Agent asked me if I was going to the beach.
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The long pants I wear have saved me from Fire ants twice in the last 10 years. Once was enough for me to be glad I was wearing them in the south Florida heat.
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I wear shorts March through November. Nothing too short or too tight. If I have a crawlspace to venture into, I use a Tyvek suit. Once June rolls around I tend to only work in the mornings until September. It’s just too hot here in Phoenix. I start at the crack of dawn if possible.
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The 90’s coaching shorts would be a good look.
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Too funny… I’ve had many agents show up over the years dressed worse than homeless people 
Same ones sometimes with a screaming toddler. Not exactly the mustard yellow Century 21 jackets the agents in all the commercials wore that I saw on TV as a kid.
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If you wanna look like a clown, go right ahead …
This is a very subjective topic.
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So true. And then…I had a young and attractive female agent show up in a body stocking. Wearing body paint would not have been less revealing. It was like walking around with a nude woman during the inspection. Just a little distracting.
I have always worn pants. For years I wore slacks and then cargo slacks because I use pockets. These days I mostly wear Wrangler cargo jeans. Maybe I am clumsy, but I am always banging into things, particularly in crawlspaces and attics and tight spaces and pants are a first line of defense. And then, frankly, I think pants present a more professional appearance than shorts.
When I worked construction, lots of guys wore shorts and they always had scrapes on their legs. I wore pants with lots of tears and holes but few on my legs.
Forty years ago, one of the first home inspectors I ever encountered had a company called House Detective and wore a herring bone jacket and tweed slacks on his inspections. It was his recognizable shtick.
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The guy I went to work for in 2000 had started in the 80s and told me stories of this… his first years he actually wore a suit jacket to inspections because that was kind of the industry norm! Glad that passed
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Yep! Back then, we were trying to raise the credibility and status of home inspectors to equal the home appraisers.
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That setup seems completely impractical for a home inspector. Why would they ever need two Crescent wrenches?
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You need an SAE Crescent and a metric Crescent.
Many years ago, I walked into auto parts store as a customer walked out. The sales guy, says, “That guy insisted that he needed a metric Crescent, so I sold him one.”
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To satisfy both small tools and big tools.