Being a city dweller, I have never been party to an onsite system inspection, but I have been through home inspections at the time of sale.Such inspections are generally not required by law, but due diligence demands them. The first time I was on the seller’s end of an inspection, things went seriously haywire, largely through my own fault.To make a long story short, an inspector paid by the buyer found a highly questionable defect in a basement wall that the buyers insisted I repair. Instead of cutting my losses and negotiating a solution, I resisted. I got other inspectors’







