{"id":163972,"date":"2010-01-11T02:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T07:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8946"},"modified":"2010-01-11T02:06:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T07:06:33","slug":"grow-op-cover-up-cbc-marketplace-with-mike-holmes-%e2%80%93-can-your-home-inspector-be-trusted-please-share-your-calgary-home-inspection-horror-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/163972","title":{"rendered":"Grow-Op Cover Up: CBC Marketplace with Mike Holmes \u2013 Can your home inspector be trusted? (Please share your Calgary home inspection horror story)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>In the season premiere of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/marketplace\/2010\/grow_op_cover_up\/main.html\" >CBC Marketplace Grow-Op Cover Up (this episode with Mike Holmes)<\/a><\/strong> last Friday, the host Erica Johnson asked the question, &#8220;<strong>Can you trust home inspector?<\/strong>&#8221; The conclusion from the show&#8217;s research is sadly an emphatic <strong>NO<\/strong> !!!<\/p>\n<p>You see, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/marketplace\/2010\/grow_op_cover_up\/main.html\" >Marketplace invited Mike Holmes<\/a><\/strong> to inspect a house where he was able to <strong>find many obvious telltale signs the house was a former grow-op<\/strong>. And these obvious signs were missed by a home inspector the home owner hired before making their home purchase decision. And when this same house was shown to <strong>four randomly chosen house inspectors<\/strong> after Mike identified the problems, <strong>the shocking findings were ALL four of these &#8220;house inspectors&#8221; missed all the obvious signs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the show (you can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/marketplace\/2010\/grow_op_cover_up\/main.html\" >watch the full episode online<\/a><\/strong>), you can see footage of police busting a grow-op and you will realize how easy you can pick up these telltale signs of a house was a grow-op that you wonder why the four randomly chosen home inspectors were so incompetent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;ve hired a home inspector in Calgary and have some horror home inspection stories (either they found major problems and saved you from buying a bad house or they missed major problems and you are stuck with the problems), please share your horror home inspection stories so other Calgarians can learn something from your experiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Posted in Business, Calgary, Canada, CBC, ethics, Law, Television, Video  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8946\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=8946&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the season premiere of CBC Marketplace Grow-Op Cover Up (this episode with Mike Holmes) last Friday, the host Erica Johnson asked the question, &#8220;Can you trust home inspector?&#8221; The conclusion from the show&#8217;s research is sadly an emphatic NO !!! You see, Marketplace invited Mike Holmes to inspect a house where he was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}