door shows light but weather stripping is okay

[a guest]

If the door has weatherstripping in place and it's still showing outside light, can the owner adjust the weatherstripping to prevent the light or does the owner have to repair the door frame?

[Michael]

There’s a flaw in your question, in that it offers us an either/or choice that does not exist. If the owner could possibly repair the issue as we conduct the inspection, we would still cite the defect we observed. This applies to all defects, not just daylight around a door. The owner is not required to fix the door if daylight is showing. The property simply loses that scoring value, which may be something like 0.3 points. If that was the only defect found, the property could score 99.7 which would be so great that HUD would not bother to inspect the property for two years. On the other hand, the property might score 61 – pretty close to failing. In this case, it would certainly be in the property’s interests to improve their score on the next REAC inspection, so it would make sense that they’d repair a bunch of stuff. But as to the specific door that shows some daylight, or any one specific defect, there is no requirement that anything other than the Exigent or Life Threatening defects be fixed.