No, and asking someone to do this is significantly problematic.

People ask me for equipment condition reports because they trust my expertise and ability to assess the details others miss, to claim for insurance, seek refunds after a purchase where the equipment is not as described, or to prepare a piece for sale, with a trusted report based on an expert assessment.

People appreciate my thoroughness, but occasionally I will find things that they may not have been expecting. Very occasionally, people have asked me to alter my report to remove the potentially value-reducing observations about condition, faults, etc. In other words, not do the very thing they hired me to do.

As someone who runs a business respected for integrity and honesty, you’ll immediately see the problem with being asked to make things up and alter my report to hide the real condition of a piece of equipment, and potentially allow someone else to be misled. This is something I will simply never do.

I’ve lost a couple of customers by taking this firm position. This is interesting as they ostensibly hired me precisely because of my approach, which is well known. These people would shout loudly if they were duped because of a nondisclosure. There are more than enough dishonest sellers and burned buyers without adding to them.