Being a home inspector in the Midwest means Mother Nature is basically your co-worker.
And she has a strange sense of humor.
One week it's 95 degrees with enough humidity to swim through the air.
The next week Canadian wildfire smoke has the sky looking like Mars.
Then comes a thunderstorm that dumps an inch of rain in twenty minutes.
Fast forward a few months...
Nobody wakes up on a Saturday morning hoping to spend $25,000 on their house.
Unfortunately...
Houses don't always ask for permission.
As a home inspector with Midwest Inspect, I inspect homes every day throughout Illinois. While most inspection reports include maintenance items and smaller repairs, every now and then I come across defects that make everyone standing nearby quietly say:
"...Well, that's going to be expensive."