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Article: INSPECTORS CAN'T GIVE HOME BUYERS LONG-TERM SECURITY.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 9, 1990
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Byline: David Silverman Chicago Tribune
Home inspectors are peering, poking and prodding their away around more homes than ever. Toting flashlights, gas detectors and electrical analyzers, they wend their way through more than 90 percent of the Chicago area's resale homes, Realtors say, looking for defects in major mechanical and structural systems that could mean trouble and expense for a potential buyer.
But as the number of inspectors has increased each of the last four years to an estimated 10,000 now in business, according to the American Society of Home Inspectors, so has skepticism about how inspectors guarantee their work, as have questions about ...