Reality

Thanks for the replies. My question has been answered.

On the report after it list soft costs, it list hard costs. The first four hard costs are what they want me to inspect. The report shows foundation electrical costing more than foundation plumbing, yet I don't see evidence of electrical work.

I did a draw inspection today. The report said to inspect: clearing/grading, foundation, foundation plumbing, and foundation electrical. I took pictures of the slab and saw plenty of plumbing, but I don't know what "foundation electrical" is. The inspection report asks for percentage completed. Should I say that "no percentage is completed for foundation electrical?"

This forum said that the subject doesn't have to be home inspection related. So here goes. I bought a new laptop computer that will be used to write inspection reports with. I have internet dial-up on a telephone line. I take the laptop and place it on my kitchen table and all of a sudden I'm on line. It appears that a neighbor uses WiFi or whatever it's called. I was told this is against federal law for me to do this. I didn't set up the computer to seek them out, it just connects automatically. It seems to me if this was such a big concern, people would be blocked from doing it. What does everyone think? Should I be worried about the feds breaking my front door down?

This is something that I wonder about myself. I start Home Inspection school next week. In the next few months, I'll need to decide on what kind of report writing to use. What produces good reports, but isn't too complicated to use? What would you suggest that I buy?

In this city, there's a free book called "The Real Estate Book." It's probably in other areas of the country. Many realtor and real estate company e-mail addresses are shown. How successful do you think it would be to send e-mails out advertising a HI business? I hate spam. Do you think they would hate these messages?