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    California Microbial Inspections

    3.3 (24 reviews)

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    Apology reply from his office 11/9/22
    Meg W.

    I have mixed feelings about working with Rich and his team because he seemed like a nice competent inspector at first. We hired him in September 2022 when we were buying our home. He came highly recommended by our broker. Initially and during the inspection, Rich seemed knowledgeable and answered questions in a pretty straightforward way. There were a couple of things that he pointed out that were not deal breakers but we appreciated it (at first). 1. Possible mold behind the baseboard of our entryway by front door. 2. In our back house, possible pet or dog pee on the subfloor from the floor bowing in one part. We went ahead and hired floor team to replace the floors & repair person to look into possible mold. During their inspection they had a number of questions for Rich because we wanted work to be done before we moved in. I left message after message with his assistant Ann Beasley, on his cel phone and got zero reply. After 3 weeks, I finally reached out to my broker, his asst Ann sent me an apology email saying he would reply and only then did he finally send a perfunctory voicemail that answered nothing. There was no sense of urgency with his "possible mold" review as were trying to get it handled. See attached photos of our email communication. We went ahead with the work because we were concerned by his report and turns out there was NO MOLD in either place. Not under the floor on the sub-floor which was clean as a whistle or by the entryway of the main house. Both vendors said, who told you there was mold? Well Rich did. The vibe I got is that California Microbial likes doing inspections at $650-700 per visit but when you dig deeper into potential issues and have your vendors try and get to the bottom of things, Rich will stall and delay or give zero answers saying "he's so busy, he's out in the field". For this I cannot recommend Rich Valdez. To me a professional mold inspector should be able to follow up and follow through. Your office hours should include inspection days and administrative office hours or at least delegate to your team a report they can reply back with especially when making these repairs and remediations are costly and need to be done right. My review is almost 2 years delayed because I never got around to it but I was recently reviewing work done to our property and I felt I needed to share my experience for potential customers. In the end we got a costly "show and tell" report, whether we actually got a true microbial study, I feel it was questionable. I would further add that it actually made me wonder if the state of California licenses these inspectors correctly. How they are certified? Does California provide a state-published mold checklist of what inspectors should look for because the whole process seems arbitrary based on what any inspector tells you. Their mistake/delays costs the homeowners and they can easily talk their way out of things with caveats, waivers or no real tangible explanations.

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