Dismantling the Mike Holmes Media Monster

[hausdok]

A Home Inspector's Response

by Andrew Christie, Civil Engineering Technologist & Registered Home Inspector

In October of 2006 The Globe and Mail published an article by Mike Holmes in which he blatantly slammed home inspectors and real estate sales reps, and exhibited a shocking lack of knowledge relating to old houses and the home inspection industry.

I questioned Darcy McGovern, the Globe’s real estate editor at the time, as to why he would publish something that includes sweeping generalization and multiple inaccuracies. Mr. McGovern told me, “I had a really bad home inspection experience.â€

[mthomas1]

Deleted due to removal of subsequent posts.

[hausdok]

Your comments weren't deleted, Michael, the topic was split into a separate topic. I left what was relavent to this topic here and split the rest off into a separate topc about how long home inspectors are responsible for their reports. That thread is here:

https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum ... IC_ID=9891

OT - OF!!!

M.

[mthomas1]

Your comments weren't deleted, Michael, the topic was split into a separate topic. I left what was relavent to this topic here and split the rest off into a separate topc about how long home inspectors are responsible for their reports. That thread is here:

https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum ... IC_ID=9891

OT - OF!!!

M.

Thank you for the clarification, makes sense, I wondered if that was what had happened and looked in both "active" and "recent", but the thread does not show up in either..