Agreed. Our first house, we hired an inspector and he found some common issues. My BIL came over after we bought the house and he asked about the fire in the house. Said we weren’t told about any fire. We were in the basement and they had the cheap, white porcelain lamps and he wiped his finger across it and said, that’s soot.
I am trying to decide now if I go after the inspector or the previous owner, or both.
It took about 25k to bring the house up to standards