HomeTeam Inspection Service HomeTeam Inspection Service of Lexington, KY They were to do a thorough inspection including all mechanical items. They failed to inspect certain items but asserted they did.  Lexington Kentucky

 While I had a similar experience with a HomeTeam Inspection Franchisee (the issue will likely shock you), when it occurred while I was the seller of the house in Boca Raton, FL, we were moving overseas and in the turmoil I simply didn’t have time to create a RipOff Report.

I had cameras with audio throughout my house and received an alarm of entry which triggered the alert to my devices. It was clearly three HomeTeam Inspection people, in addition to the RE Agent and the buyer’s whole family. Other than it being the wrong day, I had no issue Until I see and hear (yes I was curiously watching as one of the inspectors was touching several of my few dozen guitars displayed on my walls, touching all sorts of devices in the recording studio) the following:

The Buyer asks the main Inspector "how is everything?”, he first replies "nothing out of the ordinary”, then says "I can change things if you want, if you want a new A/C”. The Buyer looks puzzled, the Inspector then shuts off the breaker to the downstairs A/C AirHandler unit and then pretends to re-measure Output Temperature from a closeby vent which suddenly made it seem like the A/C wasn’t working.

The Inspector then says "that’s now a repair cost of an extra $3000”. The Buyer now understands what the Inspector is asking. To the Buyer’s credit, he says "It’s ok, It’s ok” and is explaining to his wife what the Inspector said in a foreign language which I happen to be fluent in. The buyer was not interested in scamming me, however when I received a copy of the report which took over 2weeks and completely blew the original closing date it had defects of items that didn’t even exist in my house and they completely missed items I had disclosed.

When I disclosed that I had cameras with audio recording (that were in plain sight with a blue recording light clearly on), suddenly no response from HomeTeam and they pretended to vanish. I made sure all the Realtors and the Buyer were aware of what I had captured. So, 2 Major issues, it was clear the so-called HomeTeam inspectors were there to be a fraudulent negotiation tactic assuming the buyer was also dishonest.

Secondly, had it not been captured Clearly on Video/Audio, I would have absolutely never known the intent to commit fraud freely perpetrated by the Main Inspector!! When I called Hometeam Corporate dozens of times to file a formal complaint, nothing, nada, zilch, no response whatsoever. We are now moving back to the US and you better believe that I will get my pound of flesh!