I am thinking of becoming a home inspector and followed around a friend of mine that just passed the test and was doing his first job last week. I thought that I knew what to look for but learned a lot during the two hour inspection.

The homeowner’s basement windows were not put in properly and had started to crack the foundation a little bit. You could see it with the naked eye so I do not know why they got so upset when it was written down on the inspection form. I think that since they had paid so much money for the basement windows they did not want that to hinder the sale of the home.

The other thing that was not noticeable to the naked eye, but that we discovered was that the four wood slider windows that were in the garage did not close completely. They looked as though they were shut, but you could not get them closed enough to lock them. This also made the homeowner upset but it was something that needed to be addressed.

I am not sure if I want to go into home inspecting just because of the basement window and the wood slider windows incidents. Homeowners are very scary when you find something wrong with their house.