TOPIC: Pre Inspection Agreement - Question

Ken,

Thanks for that link, that paper is fascinating.  I kept interrupting my wife as she watched the biggest loser and made her listen to me read parts of it.(she was actually interested)  It was interesting to see what the court placed specific emphasis on when evaluating the inspector's contract.  Placement, font size, wording(obviously), and other text formatting was mentioned a lot more than I expected.  Really good information to know.

I don't know the whole story, but some of what the court said made it sound like the inspector really didn't miss anything and the clients had just thrown around suits hoping one would stick.  The case wasn't even about whether the inspector was liable, it seemed like it was only about whether his liability could be limited.  I'll have to Google it to see if there is more public info available about the full story.

What a great read. I don't agree that the court is saying he didn't miss anything. I don't think they comment on that fact at all. The important thing is that they found that a limitation to cost of inspection is legal (note that it's NOT legal in California by state law, you have to multiply it by a few times at the very least) in IL and that changing the state mandated 10 year statue of limitations (WOW, 10 years?!?!) to 2 years was valid. One thing I find interesting about the last point is that as far as I've always hear, inspectors need to keep their reports 5 years. Since IL has a statute of 10 years, you'd need to keep your report for as long.

So, anybody have a good format for a pre inspection agreement here in CA.? Maybe just the basics you can amend the CREIA or NACHI SOP too?

The CREIA SOP is a standard in CA and has been looked over by tons of attorneys. Why look further?