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Home Inspection Agreement - with Coffee Clause & More
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  Home Inspection Agreement with All Clauses by Ben Gromicko |
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Improve your inspection agreement clauses - NOW!
Use my agreement to improve your own.
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This is my home inspection agreement that I use for my inspection
business for residential and light commercial property inspections. It
has protected me since 1995. I've never lost in any legal disputes.
I've never paid out of pocket to solve problems. My agreement has
always worked to protect me and my business. And I'd like to share it
with you.
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Home Inspection Agreement (pdf). 2 pages long. Letter-size.
- WARNING: Consult with your legal counsel before using any portion of my agreement.
Home Inspectors Can Avoid Lawsuits by Including This Clause into Their Inspection Agreement
“Coffee meeting.
In the event of a problem, complaint or bad result with the inspection
service or report, CLIENT agrees to meet with the President of YOUR
COMPANY, INC. for at least one hour (60 minutes) sipping coffee at a
local diner without any other counsel or person present. CLIENT agrees
to openly communicate in good faith in an attempt to come to a
resolution, prior to filing any legal complaint against YOUR COMPANY,
INC.”
Why Include This Clause?
I rather spend an hour talking
and sipping coffee with a former client instead of spending a lot of
time and money seeing a complainant in court. I can’t imagine sitting
with someone in a non-confrontational, face-to-face meeting and not
being able to come to some sort of understanding and resolution to a
problem.
I propose that most complaints that
home inspectors deal with stem from their client’s improper
expectations or misunderstanding of the inspector’s service. Setting
your client’s expectations should be handled prior to agreeing to perform an inspection. If you didn’t do that, then this agreement to meet informally afterwards is your chance to set things straight and avoid litigation.
Emotions can run high and strong words
are often used when the method communication is impersonal, such as
through email, voicemails, or letters from attorneys. In the least, an
informal meeting can calm the situation.
It is unknown whether a court will enforce this type of clause, but a judge may look favorably upon its spirit and intention.
Benefits
The benefits of the “Coffee Meeting” clause include:
·Communication is open and frank
·It costs less than litigation
·It’s less time-consuming
·Relationships might be preserved
·Both parties stay in control
ADRS
Consider the “Coffee Meeting” clause
as your own little alternate dispute resolution service. The “Coffee
Meeting” provides an excellent opportunity for the following:
·Your client gets to explain the problem experienced with the house;
·Your client gets to explain why they are disappointed in your service;
·You get to explain the service that you provide; and
·You get to determine whether you are responsible for the problem or not.
Plenty of Time
At the 60-minute meeting you and your client both get to work towards a resolution. You have plenty of time to:
·Speak in your own words;
·Review the inspection report;
·Identify and prioritize the problem(s) being experienced;
·Agree to take a second or third look at the property you inspected;
·Read over the Standards of Practice and Scope of the inspection service you provided; and
·Explain why a particular problem your client is experiencing is not your responsibility; or
·Work out a way to make your client whole if it is determined that you are responsible.
What If You Are Responsible?
If you are responsible for the
problem your client is experiencing, this meeting provides you time to
fashion your own solution, including creative, service-oriented
“win-win” options that are not available in a courtroom.
Retain the Option
There is another clause that should
include in the agreement that retains the option to arbitrate or
litigate if you and your client do not reach an agreement over coffee.
If the dispute is not settled during this informal meeting, the process
can lay the groundwork for the later resolution of the issues. Even if
things progress to formal litigation, this informal meeting can set the
stage for that process by narrowing and defining issues, and assisting
in the discovery of relevant information.
What Really Matters
In the end, it is
not about who is right or wrong, or who wins, but about agreeing to
informally work towards a resolution that meets everyone’s needs
without involving litigation. One more piece of advice, you buy the
coffee.
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This is my Wood Destroying Insect Inspection Agreement that I used for my business. I used a separate agreement for each inspection service.
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