Learn Spanish (Latin America): ¿Podría inspeccionar los baños para ver qué incluyen? - Could I inspect the bathrooms to see what they include?

Using the conditional podría instead of the present tense puedo softens the request. This is called pragmatic attenuation. Saying ¿Puedo inspeccionar...? (Can I inspect...?) can sound a bit too direct. ¿Podría inspeccionar...? (Could I inspect...?) makes the request more polite and less imposing, which is especially useful when asking a favor or speaking to a business employee.

Since podría can belong to yo, él, ella, or usted, how do we know it means "Could I" here?

In requests for permission, the context usually points to the speaker (yo). If you wanted to ask if the other person could inspect the bathrooms, you would typically include the formal pronoun to avoid confusion, like ¿Podría usted inspeccionar...?. Without a pronoun in this kind of request, native speakers naturally assume it means "Could I...".

Why is it para ver and not por ver?

We use para here because it expresses a purpose or a goal, translating to "in order to." The speaker is inspecting the bathrooms in order to see what is inside them. Por is generally used to express a cause, a reason, or a means of doing something, which doesn't fit this context.

Why does qué have an accent mark when it is not at the start of the question?