I will definitely reach out. I’m always open to advice and learning.
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Can’t do better than Bert. 
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Bert’s The Best!
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Your kidding yourself. You missed it. Own up to your mistakes!
Appears they get what they pay for.
I just want to tag on to this part of the message. I think Bert’s overall message is great.
Having spent a significant time behind a camera, and doing repairs for listing agents, one of my biggest gripes about Home Inspectors is lack of a contextual image. The second being focus and framing.
For example, I’ll often see an image like this. “Sealant separation” with a label “bathroom”. Now this particular one is easy, but I’ve had a number that took me several minutes to find.
You know what makes it better? The contextual picture.
Furthermore, the human brain needs things orderly to understand. Try to keep your images square to the bottom of the gravity well. I.e. Straight and level.
I’ve had some images on inspection reports that I couldn’t tell if what the heck I was looking at until I flipped it around 180 degrees.
Focus is import. The only blurry pictures I take are when I open the Dishwasher after a steamy 1hr cycle. I do this for a bit of fun any way, but it serves to show that I ran an actual cycle. It also helped when a new owner moved in and the dishwasher leaked all over the floor and they wanted me to fix it. Not only did the REA tell them they were there and saw me cycle it, I also had a steamy picture. It proves it was working at time of inspection.
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So one of my realtors has some simple repairs.
I get this. Seriously? It’s a big house. You call out hairline cracks. CONTEXT!!!
I just ended up walking around the house and smearing clear on all the hairline cracks I found. More than pictured by the way. I am not sure I got the ones he pictured.
Also, one other gripe.
A dry cabinet. It was clearly exposed to some moisture. It happened. It’s dry now though.
Cut out the cabinet for that? Seriously? Here’s my pictures.
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What did I miss and what mistake do I need to own up to?
I will definitely work on this. When I write my reports I always caption the photo with the location of where exactly it is that I am talking about.
That is not a home inspectors purpose. The terms multiple, many, widespread, etc. are all adjectives to use when describing and issue that is apparent in many areas. We are not there to specifically locate, identify and quantify all defects. In fact, we may not see every square inch of the home and I am certainly not filling up a report with a bunch of photos with hairline cracks and the location of each.
Sure, one or two issue, I will point that out. Three or more I am giving some examples in my photos and moving on. If one area is worse than others, I may say, as an example, widespread cracking, notably the rear.
Multiple windows have wood deterioration, widespread peeling paint, many loose receptacles, several fasteners in withdrawal, etc.
If those cracks were in my report, I would expect a qualified person to pick-up where we left off and do a thorough job.
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I wasn’t suggesting it was other than making it CLEAR where a pictured defect actually is. If something is worth of the report, it’s worthy of locating it.
I will say that I do in fact document every issue I find but there are limits. Mostly because the goofballs that follow behind me will miss it if I don’t. It’s also related to proximity. A bunch of hairline cracks around one window is one thing, One pic with some arrows is good enough. If the next on the other side of the house, I feel like it’s important to note it. Said goofball will look where he’s told.
I don’t think we’re very far apart in methodology. I err on the side of noting it so it won’t get missed. I wouldn’t take a picture of one crack and say “whole house need examined”. By the same token, I’m not taking 10 pictures around one window.
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