TOPIC: Do you release your photos to your client

If your client asks for all of the photos you took during the inspection would you release the photos to them.  Why or why not?

I would. I always tell them I take about 100 pics, and about 30 or so make it in the report. Most are just visible reminders to me as to where I am in the home so I can remember while filling in the report. If there are three baths maybe I can't remember which one had a window, or which bedroom had no smoke alarm... They are mostly useless to the client, but why not? If they want'em, they can have'em. ? 

I take a ton of pictures as well. however only a dozen or so make it on the report. I never had any one ask me for all the pictures. I would give them up in a heart beat. Why wouldn't you..

on secont thought, though it was 30 years ago, I remember the photographer charged an outrageous price for my wedding pics!

SELL them to the client!! 

Now that is funny..

At a CE seminar recently, the presenter (who had regular contact with attorneys that represented clients in E&O cases) warned that those pics could be used against the inspector, as they could actually show where the inspector failed to report something.  I can see his point, and I'd be reluctant to hand them over for that reason, but I am someone who always likes to help people...and I just haven't learned well enough that no good deed goes unpunished.