On the importance of home inspections
For those who haven't seen them yet, This Old House has two galleries of photos up (one, two) that show the worst of the worst things found during home inspections. Most of it is in the you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it category; wait until you see the light switch in the shower stall, or the 220-volt plug hard-wired bare to the incoming power line. This kind of stuff makes me cringe, mostly because it reminds me that any of my neighbors might have done something like this and I won't know until their house comes (crashing, burning, rotting, or flooding) down to the ground.
