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Walked a 12,000 sq ft office shell with the owner, then hired a cheaper inspector. Mistake.
Last month in Nashville I had a buyer eyeing an old flex building. They wanted to save 400 bucks and used a guy who mainly does houses. He missed the roof ponding and the HVAC units were all past their rated life by 3 years. My regular commercial inspector caught both in 20 minutes on a recheck. Owner now has a 60k repair bill he didn't plan for. Has anyone else had a cheap inspection come back to haunt them before closing?
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ivan_schmidt23d ago
The line about saving 400 bucks and using a guy who mainly does houses hits home. I used to roll my eyes at commercial inspection fees, figured a building is a building and the guy with the clipboard is just checking boxes either way. Then I watched a similar deal in Knoxville go sideways when the cheap inspector walked right past a 20 year old TPO roof with seams pulling apart. Buyer got stuck with a 40k replacement two months after closing and the seller was long gone. That one changed my mind real quick. You are not paying for the inspection, you are paying for someone who knows what they are actually looking at.
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