“Everything’s Bigger in Texas” is a slogan that we’ve all heard a million times. In some cases, that can apply to residential and commercial buildings that are being sold and inspected, too. When this is the case, it can introduce a significant expense of time and money. Just think of what it would take to inspect a strip mall with two dozen units, an apartment complex with hundreds of rental units, or a massive warehouse.
In cases like these, the buyer and seller may be interested in a method of inspection called representative sampling. What this involves is determining a specific subset of the entire property that can be considered to be representative of the whole space. Once that’s determined, an inspection can focus on just that area, and the report that comes out of that inspection is then agreed upon as representing the entire property. In the long run, a full inspection is typically ideal, but this may be an alternative option that could work for you.
