I bought my house a few years back after it passed the home inspection with flying colors.
A month or two later, I get a letter in the mail from the city telling there's an outstanding building permit for my back deck, which never passed the final inspection. Turns out it's the longest outstanding building permit for a deck in the history of the city of Barrie.. When I started looking into the building codes, it was obvious that the deck was not built to code.
The home inspector passed it with flying colors.. I called the home inspector, and told him I need to drop $2500 to rebuild my entire deck, he said the best he could to was reimburse me the cost of the home inspection. I called him a week later to get some money out of him, and he totally blew me off..
You can't trust anyone anymore.