Even if you are familiar with home construction, you still don’t have the knowledge, training and experience and the specific skill of a professional home inspector, not to mention the tools and technology available to inspectors.
Beside the expertise and experience a professional inspector brings, it is important to remember that the inspector remains an impartial non emotional third party.
If you are buying or selling a house, it’s impossible for you to remain completely unemotional about the house, and this may alter your judgment, especially if you are selling as you most likely have lived in this property for along time.
A property inspector will provide a professional, unbiased, new set of eyes reporting of the facts.