We built in St Cats and were over to our house every day. We watched the roof trusses fall down on Christmas eve at a nearby build. They had them all rearranged by Christmas day. I cant imagine they actually had an inspector out over Christmas lol. Wonder if the owner knew about it.......and if there was no damage.

The Villages strongly discourages ANY inspection before closing. In the thousands of inspections we have done in The Villages, we have only done one.

The key is that within the first 7 days of ownership you need to do a GOOD punch list inspection, keying into the items that are only warrantied for the first 30 days. You can do this yourself easily. We help many with that. Everything else we can find and document during our 11th month inspection.

As to trusses, we often find broken trusses during our attic inspection. This is why it is SO important that your inspector crawls all over the attic. Most do not. They may pop their head up there but their feet never go in the attic. That is not the proper way to inspect an attic. You get what you pay for.

Repaired trusses are perfectly fine, as long as the repair is done in accordance to the truss engineer, AND you have documentation saying that. Repaired trusses are actually stronger. The problem is that you need the paperwork, so if you sell the home years later it does not become a contentious issue.

Hope this helps!