I spend most of my week assessing storm damage claims, not doing pre-purchase inspections, but the two jobs overlap more than people think. Last wet season I was called to a Gold Coast property where water had tracked under a slab-on-ground extension, and the claim hinged entirely on where the water came from. It came from the driveway — a slab poured with a fall toward the house instead of away from it, something a pre-purchase inspection eighteen months earlier had actually noted and the new owners had filed away as a minor comment rather than a warning.
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