Windermere homes are larger, more custom and more complicated than average, and that changes the shape of an inspection. There is simply more house, and more of it is bespoke.
Expansive roof areas, often tile rather than shingle, with valleys and transitions that shingle roofs never have to manage. Multiple HVAC zones and air handlers, which means multiple condensate systems, multiple filters nobody has changed, and more places for a slow leak to sit unnoticed inside a closet. Screened lanais and pool enclosures whose fasteners and framing take a beating from sun and storm. Generous attic volumes where insulation coverage is easy to get wrong across a big footprint. And custom detailing throughout, which is where moisture tends to hide, because a builder-grade house repeats the same detail fifty times while a custom house improvises.
These properties take longer, and they should. Rushing a five thousand square foot house on a lake lot produces a report that reads fine and misses things. Roof condition and age deserve particular attention: under Florida law a roof under fifteen years old cannot by itself be grounds for an insurer to refuse or decline to renew a policy, and past fifteen you are entitled to an inspection rather than an automatic replacement demand. On a tile roof of this size, that distinction is worth a great deal of money.
