Originally Posted By: sramos This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I just lost a job to a contractor in my area that is offering to do a large project with three parcels and six units on 51 acres. I bid the inspection at $800, which I thought was low. I received word from my prospect that she decided to go with another home inspector that is also a general contractor for $650 and he would credit the inspection fee if she gave him the repair work.
I know this violates California Law under the business and professions code. This contractors name does not appear on ASHI, CREIA, or NACHI's listings. I informed my client that it is an unfair business practice to do repair work on home's that an inspector inspects for 12 months. She is going to check with her partner and get back to me- she is an attorney, by the way.
What recourse do I have against this contractor?
-- Steven Ramos
EnviroVue Home Inspection
866-541-2883
Originally Posted By: jstevens This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
by my guess you dont have any recourse .if he is lic for gen.contractor .but if he is lic. for hi and you need a lic. where you are at then i assume you have a complaint to file with the st. lic boardjust my 2 cents and a third
Originally Posted By: kmcmahon This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
In the courts eyes, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck. Money doesn’t have to exchange hands for it to be legal and considered a Home Inspection. If he’s performing a Home inspection, then he’s considering himself a home inspector and by California law bars him from performing repairs. I’d report him if it were me and I had proof.
Originally Posted By: jpope This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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7197. It is an unfair business practice for a home inspector, a company that employs the inspector, or a company that is controlled by a company that also has a financial interest in a company employing a home inspector, to do any of the following: (a) To perform or offer to perform, for an additional fee, any repairs to a structure on which the inspector, or the inspector's company, has prepared a home inspection report in the past 12 months.
-- Jeff Pope
JPI Home Inspection Service
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Originally Posted By: kmcmahon This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Actually, rereading the blurb Jeff quoted, it says you cannot offer to repair for an additional fee…it says nothing about performing an inspection for a fee…soooo, I guess it is illegal unless you do the repairs for free!!!
Here in WI it’s written in a way so you can’t circumvent the system like that.