Yeah Neil, that’s what I would do too. 
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I just inform the buyer about the energy source and if it has 3-prong 240v I let them know the limitations. It’s not a defect. The blue text is hyperlinks where the buyer can see the part at home depot and order it if they want to.
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Just put something like this in your template… you don’t even know if the electric dryer sitting there is part of the transaction.
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I appreciate the feedback. I’m not going to cut a check. I think the fact I mentioned there’s an uninstalled dryer and a gas connection available is sufficient. I did find him a reasonably priced electrician.
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When I read threads like this it reminds me that some people really suck. The fact that this person even contacted you about this is mind boggling.
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Here in Maui it’s super-common for condo owners to put in washer/dryer but with no venting since the HOA won’t let them. They do all kinds of creative things with stuffing the dryer vents into buckets and other containers. I can’t imagine how long it takes to dry clothes.
That sounds like multiple fires waiting to happen.
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It would probably be cheaper for them to buy a gas dryer.
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Please dont write a check just to be on good side of Realtor. In our area if you write the check the Realtor will spread word like wild fire that you missed somethiing which will mean blackballing. I did that 25 years ago, and never heard from that office again, even though I was averaging 50 inspections a year out of that office, I talked with the broker and he said they had a meeting indicating I might be a liability to them. So dont use him. Wow, but guess what, that same office 6 years later was sued for conspiring setting inflated selling prices in the area with other Realtors in other offices to gain high commissions (Appraisors nailed them). The office is no longer operating, and not one Realtor from that office is doiing Real estate in our town. Yahoo… Do not write a check, you followed SOP.
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They just need to buy a gas clothes dryer. Not your fault. Per the SOP appliances are not part of a home inspection.
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I know they are used quite often in Germany. Many of the homes are stone, and often in city-centers the homes are considered historic and can’t be modified. They use those condensing style dryers. I’m sure they suck. You’d be surprised at the level of suck “commoner” Europeans deal with daily and are shocked when they come to the US and all our home stuff works. I spent a lot of time at my former company’s facility and the people are great, the government protects them well at work and ignores them and micro-manages them when they go home
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Just curious, since you use spectora, do you have it as a defect, or do you just put that in the information section?
I go back and forth on some of the issues like that so it doesn’t overwhelm the client with defects
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If home inspectors where to say everything that wasn’t installed or present during a home inspection it seems like we would be there all day and clutter the report to no end. I also don’t mention the lack of scarecrows in the front yard, no visible hot air balloons on the property, or that Wilson isn’t my neighbor to give life advice at the backyard fence. Little cheeky, but you get my drift. 
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No, that’s not a defect statement. It is an informational statement. Therefore it would not go in the summary
In Spectora it looks like this on the report editor. It’s just an FYI type of comment.
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Much ado about nothing!
Why would you consider it a defect?
I dont, usually. That why I was asking if Bert did.
Since he mentions it, I was wondering where it shows up in his report.
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