The seller's agent is giving reasonable advice, and the confusion is usually a wording mix-up between waiving the inspection and waiving the inspection contingency. What a buyer typically waives is the contingency. That means giving up the right to use inspection findings as a reason to renegotiate or walk away from the deal. It does not bar anyone from actually inspecting the home. An information-only inspection is still valuable and still common. You want to know what you're buying even when you've agreed you won't back out over it. The one case where we'd say skip it: the buyer plans to tear the place down or gut-renovate regardless of what an inspector finds. Otherwise, walking the property with a good inspector is smart, and your friend can encourage the buyer to inspect for their own peace of mind even though the contingency is gone.