Have a good trip.

Sometimes I am amazed what home owners will put up with.  I am not thinking about owners of older homes but of new homes.  When you have a house built, or you purchase a new house, wouldn't you want things done right?  Oh, there will always be something that isn't quite up to snuff but sufficiently out of the way that you won't notice it; hiring a home inspector may help in finding those issues, but the four year old Kitchener home I inspected the day before yesterday had some issues that were about as "out in the open" as physically possible.  The home was listed as having two bathrooms and as being "roughed in" for a third.  Roughed in means that all the plumbing is available for the third bathroom but the fixtures aren't there. 
Just the rough plumbing.  Note:  This is not the same as "the plumbing done in a rough manner.   Well...the rough-in was done roughly.  The plumbing for the toilet flange was sticking above the basement floor about 4".  Great for a trip up.   At least it was sort of behind a shelving unit and fairly close to the wall.  The drain for the lavatory however, was right there in the line of traffic coming from the stairs.  Sticking about 1-1/2" above the floor.  Have a good trip.  
There was a provision for a shower stall as well; about 2 feet in front of the stairs. 
I have no idea if the seller was the original owner but I do know that this house did have an original owner at one time.  How is it possible that someone signed off on this incomplete work?  At the very least the contractor should have been made to cut the stubs off and cap them but he also should have had to explain how a bathroom would have to be built in front of the basement stairs.  
Would a home inspection be needed to find this?  No, not really.  Possibly to find the shower drain provision under the strategically placed mat at the bottom of the stair but certainly not to see the plumbing sticking out of the floor.  Why would a home inspection have helped here?   For a timid buyer it would have been much easier to present a home inspection report listing the defects to the contractor than to point out the issues in person. 
Please consider having your home inspected, even if it is a brand new home, supposedly free from defects.  You may be happy you did.

Submitted by Bert, for Benchmark Home Inspection Services.  Your Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph and Orangeville area home inspector.