Pros and cons of offering home warranties with inspections

[jmiller1 (John Miller)]

Any ideas for or against offering warranties with inspection?

[jjonas (Jeffrey Jonas)]

Are you a Home Inspector or an Insurance Agent??

[rlewis5 (Roy Lewis, CERTIFIED MASTER INSPECTOR RETIRED)]

It isn’t needed to make a great living…Nope!
It would be better if you concentrated on giving a great report and not a bunch of BS .
As opposed to dealing with stupid crap tagged to your report…Yep!

[jjonas (Jeffrey Jonas)]

Also consider that many agents also sell Home Warranty policies, so, in effect you are taking out of their pockets. Now, seeing as most inspectors are beholden to Realtors for work, (not me), just how do you think that is going to go over with them?

[sclark8 (Spencer Clark)]

Agreed…Yes Sir.

[frotte (Frank Rotte)]

Most agree that it’s not a good idea.

[rlewis5 (Roy Lewis, CERTIFIED MASTER INSPECTOR RETIRED)]

I thought you were in love with the warranties your buddy NT has to offer?

[dcossar1 (Douglas Cossar, CMI. NHI)]

Most of these so-called warranties exclude more than they cover. Just a waste of time IMHO

Cheers

[frotte (Frank Rotte)]

@rlewis5

I thought you were in love with the warranties your buddy NT has to offer?

[rlewis5 (Roy Lewis, CERTIFIED MASTER INSPECTOR RETIRED)]

I’m sorry Brother Frank…Really!
The devil made me do it! Uh Huh!