Recently I've been seeing these "overly meticulous and pedantic" home inspectors popping up on YouTube, namely this guy and his copycats. They claim to be "exposing corruption in the housing industry" but as others have pointed out, it's all part of the marketing. What do you think?
>>2967506>it's all part of the marketing>What do you think?by and add
>>2967506It's one of those youtube rabbithole niche's. Endless content with all of the haphazzard illegal mexican jobsites.
>>2967506it's bothobviously he's hyping stuff for clicks but at the same time they have the lowest IQ illegals building everything and they really don't like it when someone documents how shitty their work is
>>2967529This. The work is just that dog shit.What like it's okay your house trusses don't have any fasteners in them? Those are just extra? We took them off to make the house go faster?
I like black inspector man. He's a lot less of a dick and points out things that builders go above and beyond on. And he's local to me.
>>2967506My father built a house recently.If you only new what type of shit the contractors pull you would kill someone.They all charge the same so you can't gauge their skill based on price.Once the deed is done you call one of these people and they tell you the concrete foundations for the house are in the wrong place , all of them.They are mandated by law for a reason, society and government in general is in total denial that has skilled labor shortage.
>>2967506have you ever worked in this industry?no shortage of greedy scum builders who cut cornersthat's owners,c-suite excecs, and managersthe workers and contractors are the sort of retards that throw cigarette butts in fresh concrete and piss in walls
Part of the problem is that people are desperate for housing and will pay for low quality so there is no incentive to spend more time or money on something that will sell anyway.
>>2967506>They claim to be "exposing corruption in the housing industry" but as others have pointed out, it's all part of the marketingwhat the fuck are you talking about?
I just remembered there's a fat white inspector I've also been seeing pop up once in awhile, who has really awkward catchphrase.>>2967616Anon makes a low-quality and racist post outside of /b/.That ain't right.
>>2967506they are much needed in the american housing business it seems. here a house has 5 years warranty, not really a need for house inspectors then since you got 5 years to figure out everything thats wrong with your house and then after 4 years 364 days you send in a mail with everything thats wrong and demand fixed and they got no choice but to do it for you for free. its a discussion to raise it to 10 years. there have been extreme cases where there has been so much wrong with the house they buildt them another one instead, and then they get another 5 year warranty period so they better get it right this time. in usa once you accept the keys all bets are off. i cant understant how anyone buys houses there?
>>2967547this is an american thing i dont get? dont hire contractors, hire a company to build your house. typicly a carpenter business here will do everything from the landscaping through foundation, framing and all the way up to roofing including most of the interior, they again hire in electricans and plumbers to to do their part since thats stuff that requires certain certifications. you however only have to deal with the company that signed a contract to deliver you a house and you know the guy who poured your basement concrete is the same guy who installed your kitchen and made your roof.
>>2967547it's kinda like car mechanics, if they see a sucker they go for it. Which fucking sucks. I recently had a problem with an old boiler furnace in my home and aside from nobody wanting to work on it and the company that did previous maintenance being acquired by private equity (and being complete retards that drained ALL my water), the guy that did show up was quoting me 25k for a full replacement. It just needed some water level adjustment in the thermal expansion tank.
>>2967506All short form content like tik tok and YouTube shorts and Instagram reels are trash made to be engaging instead of substantial and should be ignored and regarded as trash.
>>2967506Just like any youtube channel he's hyping his content but new BUILDS really are total dogshit. My in-laws just had a new build done and it had literal months of rework after they inspected it and found framing errors (gaps and missing hardware), tiles with insufficient mortar, and wiring that wasn't up to code.
>>2967646This is jusy a vocabulary thing. A contractor is a guy you.pay to do a thing thats not part of your company payroll/taxes.There's just no company that does everything in-house.
The reason it's blowing up is because the homes these guy's are inspecting are well over a million dollars and they're being built like shit by crews of illegal spics. No one would give a shit if we didn't live in a clown world where a 1200 sq ft home wasn't one million
>>2967688there is companies who does everything in and out house. it is the norm of building a house here. just a few 100 meters away from where i grew up is a factory that builds housed either in elementes or sections. my father used to work there first as a floor'er/carpenter then he got into accounting, now my brother work there as a carpenter/foreman. they as any other house builders dont use contractors, its only inhouse workers. the idea is that you who buy a house should know who have the warranty of it and construction workers and carpenters should have a steasy income. straight out contracting is actually illegal here. if you sign a contract to build a house you need to have atleast 2/3 of the workforce to do so hired directly under you.
>>2967656>the guy that did show up was quoting me 25k for a full replacement.No one wants to work on it because the cost of repairs is more work than replacing it and the customer won't be happy at the end. We only do full replacements now because we've had so many problems with trying to repair old ass boilers that it turns into a nightmare and the cost gets out of control way too fast and the customer is always pissed at the end
>>2967693Comparing a third world village to an expensive mcmansion in Arizona isn't the same thing
>>2967695>implying a soulless mcmansion in an location thats incompatible human biological function is superior lollmfao even
>>2967693idk to what extent this would be effective, but the contracting model in the US feels like it's pulling taffy. The people doing the actual work make less and less while the companies that sub them out take more and more. It doesn't matter if you're a skilled installer or an illegal migrant. Homeowners and general contractors love to play games with the installers then wonder why they don't get repeat work and can't find good help.
>>2967698I have no idea wtf you're saying, Mahmet
>>2967700The reason is that those are usually government contracts with the state and more akin to money laundering through construction. Your local representative probably owns one of the businesses or supply chains involved in the construction
>>2967645I've never dealt with new construction, but it's not uncommon for sellers these days to offer a one year warranty through a third party. Good luck getting those turbo jews to pay out, though.
>>2967619Theres also that turk in australia who makes home inspectionnon-compliant
>>2967547>that has skilled labor shortage.There is no such thing lol
>>2967705Basically, building houses doesn't make money, but selling all the materials to yourself to build a house and putting it on a sucker's bill? Priceless.
>>2967693>it is the norm of building a house here. just a few 100 meters away from where i grew up is a factory that builds housed either in elementes or sections.That's just pre-fab housing; plenty of that in the States. It's fine if you're just going to truck in sections, plop them on a foundation and bolt it all together. If you want something custom built to your own specifications, you're going to need a contractor to do it. Some contractors have all the trades under one roof, some just act as generals and herd the various subs for you.
>>2967506part of what matketing? the one trying to sell you shotty houses?
>>2967529>DEM ILLEEEEEGALSyou realize the investor and the contractor are both managed by locals and not illegals, right?but it's okay to get ripped off by true murrican patriots, fuck yeah!i swear amerifats are the dumbest lowest IQ morons on that planet
>>2967785It's "shoddy" not "shotty" ESLboy>>2967787Are you intentionally missing the point to troll or are you legitimately stupid? Illegals do shoddy work, and do not have any right to be here doing shoddy work and soaking up benefits money, so while people who hire them deserve punishment, the illegals are not some total non-issue like people like you make them out to be.
>>2967806i still fail to understand the pride in you fat retads of knowing only one languageand yes - you are being ripped off by legal americans, that are supposed to supervise and train their workers and you are perfectly fine with that, because you are fat retards living in a bubble full of fat retards, where knowing only one language is an epic flex
>>2967812All I can hear is someone screaming 'do no redeems' over and over.Fuck illegals and the people that hire them. Simple as
>>2967813so fuck illegals and americansI'm glad we finally both agree on the topic
>>2967812I speak 3 and all of them better than you can write in English you smug jeet faggot.
>>2967857english, british and australian i assume?
>>2967812there's no reason for anyone to learn spanish because there's nothing to learn FROM or IN spanish. you people are terrible at math and science and never really invented any thing or idea worth talking aboutEnglish is the language of intelligent people.
>>2967688>>2967693There are. In the US we call them builders. The builder works with all of the contractors and spares the homeowner the conversations, the time, and the stress. Now add at least 10% to the total price of your house.
>>2967910still not the same, even you mentioned contractors. thats a thing that doesnt exist here, if you hire a builder he does the concrete slab, the framing, the drywall, the roof, everything. he doesnt hire a bunch of """contractors""" aka mexicans or in our case poles and lithuanians to do it for him no its part of his job and he does it himself.
>>2967900i wish i knew spanish but i don't keep seething at them tho, you entitled morons are hilarious
>>2967506If you don't have a trusted and credible home inspector as part of your home-buying toolkit, you should stick to renting.
>>2967506Brother in law is a fire inspector and does a lot of prebuilt condos. He says once they get enough units sold to start development they do the bare minimum that they need to by law and use the cheapest shit. So it's clickbait like all youtube but just barely. Also no wonder why speculators are backing out of condo development since no one wants to pay 500k to live in a shitty rundown place.
