Owning your own home

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Howard in reply to @Cupcakes
Because the concept of one doesn't really exist?

But reasons for not shoving more money down a RICS person's throat
- it's not your first rodeo
- you've got a better alternative (builder etc)
- low risk or inability to action whatever they might find (i.e. it's a flat in a purpose built block that hasn't been wrapped in stuff that burns and not made out of out of date concrete)
- defects are so terrifyingly obvious that you've already got a structural engineer picking through the rubble
or combinations of thereof

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Cupcakes in reply to @Howard

Interesting, and not unreasonable I think.

Inspection reports from structural engineers do exist though. Edit: comes under (2) in your list I guess.

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Howard in reply to @Cupcakes

they can't really do much unless they can peel thing back and have a look or they have access to documentation on what was done and how. Much more involved process than what the RICS folks offer through basically eyeballing a place and using local knowledge etc, which I think is what folks assume a 'structural survey' to be. Erroneously.

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