Fennema Engineers

After highering a home inspector to do a complete evaluation of the condition of my house before entering into a 30 year mortgage I ran into disaster. The man failed to mention an incomplete suage drainage pipe under my kitchen that had poored nearly 2 years worth of human suage under the kitchen by the prior owners. This disaster went unnoticed until after I moved forward with purchasing the home and moved in at which point my kitchen collapsed 3 inches causing damage to everything from the foundation to the roof. I submitted the claim to the home inspector’s Liability Insurance Company who then in turn sent Mr. Fennema to evaluate the damage. After having three licensed, insured and bonded local contractors bid between $ 34,000 and $ 45,000 to completely and correctly make all repairs, Mr. Fennema made the following statement to me, «I don’t believe this should cost more than $ 20,000 to fix, and I don’t know this area very well, but where I am from you can higher Mexicans to crawl under the house and make the repairs — that will probably only cost you $ 4,000»… With Mr. Fennema’s «expert» advise the insurance company then only offered me $ 7,500. For a structural engineer Mr. Fennema missed 10 piers and post that need to be replaced and failed to corolate/​relate the damage to the roof. California Should really consider mandating home inspectors to be licensed and carry insurance for their license just as they do for Contractors… this would weed out a lot of the nonsense and headaches for laimen homeowners like myself