I apose the bill

This bill will hurt the home buyer in the long run.

The process of a home inspection is very difficult. With over 2,000 thngs to look for and in a window of 4 hours we focus on the important areas (9 key areas from sturcture, roof, electircal etc onwards). All for typically around $400. We typically save the buyer thousands in negotiated contract costs.

We now live in a sue happy environemt and every little detail will be sent over to the home inspector. We call problems defects in our industry. A defect may not materailize until after the day of the inspection ... under the new rules we will be liable for that too. The knock on effect is most of us will leave the industry, the price of an inspection will arrise to a few thousand dollars and most people will forgo an inspection. Thus the majority of buyers will now be exposed and I guarantee you from all the inspections I have done and people I have saved from buying homes or in one case saved a buyer $33,000 in costs for repairs these problems will just be passed on to the buyer.

I feel the system is working fine as it is. My thought is, if this is to protect the buyer, then threr should be a mandatory level of insurance required for home inspectors to carry. This will protect the consumer for errors and mistakes and has already been implimented with all inspectors now being DPOR certified and having to carry insuarance. If your goal is to protect home buyers ... making inspectors liable for everything will have the oppostie effect. No more inpsctions for the majority of people ... you wouldn't believe the thngs we find constantly. I urge you to protect the home buyer and not impliment these changes proposed!