5 Mistakes Inspectors Make Causing Your Home to Fail Inspection
5 Mistakes Inspectors Make Causing Your Home to Fail Inspection
The dream listing turns into a nightmare overnight: a failed inspection, a ticking option period, a spooked buyer. Five inspector mistakes cause most of it -- and you can catch every one early.
An inspection report is not a verdict from on high. It is a document written by a human under time pressure -- and humans under time pressure make the same five mistakes over and over.
When a home "fails" inspection, the option period starts eating your deal alive. The buyer wants credits, the seller feels ambushed, and both of them look at you. What most agents never learn is how often the report itself -- not the house -- created the problem.
This hour arms you with the five most common inspector mistakes: what inspectors are actually required to look for, where reports overreach or misfire, and how to identify and correct issues before the inspection instead of negotiating them after.
Your listing, your reputation, one hour of prevention.
Prevention beats renegotiation
The five mistakes
The recurring inspector errors that sink reports -- named, explained, and illustrated so you recognize them on sight.
What inspectors look for
The critical elements behind every inspection, so you know what is coming before the ladder comes off the truck.
Fix it before they find it
How to identify and correct issues pre-inspection, so your listing walks in prepared instead of exposed.
Protecting the deal
What to do when a questionable report lands anyway -- keeping the option period from turning into an exit ramp.
Built for people with closings tomorrow
Fast
One hour, one sitting, and your credit posts to TREC in about 3 seconds -- even at 11pm the night your license expires.
Simple
No apps. No plugins. No mystery. Phone, tablet, or laptop -- the course saves your place.
No risk
"I think my CE is the best you can get. If you don't agree, I'll refund your money." -- David Offutt, Founder. You keep every CE hour you earned.
Proven
About 9,000 Texas license holders trained since 2014. TREC CE Provider #10010-CEP. Real instructors in a real studio.
Taught by David Offutt
David Offutt
TREC CE Provider #10010-CEP and holder of TREC Instructor #1597 -- issued directly by TREC on subject-matter equivalence before that pathway closed in 2019. As an insurance agency owner, David sees the claim side of property condition disputes -- which is exactly where failed inspections end up.
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Keep your listing off the failed pile.
Five mistakes, one hour of prevention. Posted to TREC in about 3 seconds.
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