{"id":4839,"date":"2013-07-15T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T06:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2013-07-16T03:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:44:11","slug":"paying-to-get-an-answer-you-want-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/paying-to-get-an-answer-you-want-to-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying To Get An Answer You Want To Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hearing a lot of stories today in regards to buying a home and how people hire home inspectors to ensure that the property is in good shape.  However, many times an inspector would fail a building which results in the buyer backing out.  This then created a debate where some real estate agents were saying that many times an inspector would over exaggerate problems and to prove this many times people would get a different person who would then say everything is fine.<\/p>\n<p>There was one funny example though where in the building reports it clearly mentioned that this one building had a multitude of problems and the person still really wanted the place.  What appeared to happen next was that the person hired an inspector who had a track record of giving the thumbs up to most of the buildings that he inspects.  Therefore, if you think about it&#8217;s more like he wanted to pay a person to to be like an advocate for him to make the purchase as oppose to giving him non bias opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The more I think about it this is actually really common in other things as well.  It&#8217;s almost like paying someone to tell you pigs fly even if it&#8217;s not true.  Sounds so silly, but by the looks of it many people do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hearing a lot of stories today in regards to buying a home and how people hire home inspectors to ensure that the property is in good shape. However, many times an inspector would fail a building which results in the buyer backing out. This then created a debate where some real estate agents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4406,21,4407,4243],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-inspector","tag-money","tag-paying-for-advocacy","tag-real-estate-agent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/stock.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1g3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}