The proposed bill is BAD for Virginia, BAD for consumers, BAD for home inspectors and BAD for the Virginia real estate industry. As a home inspector serving Maryland, DC and Virginia for the past 8 years and part of a InterNachi brotherhood of home inspectors we work to protect home buyers with a non evasive visual inspection. The proposed legislation will open the flood gates for frivoluos claims and increase inspection costs to the consumer because of higher insurance premiums and costs related to doing business in Virginia. It may cause consumers to forgo an inspection because of the higher costs which harms us all. Home inspectors provide a valuable service to their customers and the community at fair and reasonable pricing and goverment regulatory agencies are becoming more involved with commerce without thinking of the consequences. This is a bad bill that needs a resounding NO.