Are You Asking for a Pre-Inspection? The Seattle Home Inspection Problem With record-low levels of housing inventory, historically low interest rates and swarms of eager buyers in bidding-wars over the same house, there is a lot of pressure on home inspectors in the Seattle area to cut corners. The problem is, home buyers have no time and little incentive to complete a thorough home inspection; in the midst of a bidding war, buyers are now forced to do inspections during a short...