[fintstone]

From my experience, the buyer's inspector always finds things to justify their fee. Often, they are nonsense, but helpful in negotiations. Some buyers make an offer to take the property off the market and then try to get the price down. I recently sold a home where I could have probably had a bidding war as I had multiple full price offers the first day and gave it to the best offeror. Then they came up with about 4K in repairs at closing including replacing the faucets in all four bathrooms because they were "rusty". All were almost brand new, and the buyer apparently just did not like the common Delta faucets. It made me angry enough that I almost pulled out of the deal. Apparently, there was also something wrong with the garage door, so I told them that we would give them $500 to fix whatever they chose, and if not...we had another buyer. They took the deal. I never use an inspector (unless the mortgage requires it) or try to negotiate a new deal once I make an offer. To me, that is just bad faith.