Phil Whalen sent me multiple emails requesting Yelp and Google reviews. Here's my review:
I was living in South Dakota when I was looking at houses here and was really counting on the inspector to make sure I got all of the things, good and bad, I needed to know about this house. I picked the inspector in previous houses but this time my realtor said he had a guy that was really good. WIN did the inspection on June 22, 2022. I arrived in Las Vegas from South Dakota on July 5th and was eager to see the house in person. I finally got into the house the second week of July to do my own inspection and I had a number of concerns about the quality of the inspection. On the side of the house, next to the air conditioner unit, is a swamp cooler that is used to cool the garage. There is substantial corrosion around the bottom of the unit that is not addressed in the report (see picture). Neither is the functionality of the unit. I got a call in about it and when inspector Walter Lee called me back his response was weak. He claimed that access to the unit inside the garage was blocked so he couldn't inspect it but "it was nice and cool in there." The placement of the unit in the garage is not good, it is under a counter, just above the floor, with a cabinet against one side (see picture). So blowing cool air out into the garage is already partially blocked. If there was so much stuff up against, there is no way it could have been "nice and cool in there." But I tried it to make sure. I piled stuff up in front of the unit and it barely cooled the garage a few feet out. I don't believe the unit was even on when the inspector was here because why would it be if no one was working out there? After I moved in, I ran the unit unblocked (nothing in front of it) for five days and nights when the high temps were in the nineties, and it never got below 82 degrees. And that is not "nice and cool." So the unit is not strong, to begin with, and if it was blocked so he couldn't see it, no way it cooled a double-sized garage. When I asked him about the corrosion on the unit outside, his response was, "this is Vegas, do you know how hard the water is out here?" Yes, I do but that is not an acceptable excuse for blowing off the inspection of a key, and expensive, piece of equipment.
The microwave makes a buzzing noise and it is not a normal buzzing. Doing some research, and calling a repair guy, it sounds like either the Diode or the Megatron is burning out. We'll see but if it is still working in a year, I'll be surprised. The buzzing sound is not addressed in the inspection report. I made a video of the microwave running so you could hear the buzzing but I couldn't attach it to his review.
The inspection report mentions that some sprinkler lines are exposed with one picture of black irrigation tubing shown. NOT some, all of the drip sprinkler hoses and lines in the backyard are exposed. And it has become a big problem with three labradors running around out there. read more