How Buyers Can Increase The Odds of Catching More Defects
Here’s how buyers can increase the odds of catching more defects when it’s time to purchase a home. Remember: You’ll be hiring a professional to perform a “visual” home inspection. Even if you aren’t a gambler you’ll understand the odds get better with more eyeballs on the house. The National Association of Home Builders estimates […]
I Have a Property Disclosure Statement – Do I Need a Home Inspection
I received a note from a potential client last month. It went like this: Hi Gary -I’ve been looking for a home for months now and finally settled with the seller. It’s being offered by a FSBO (for sale by owner) and the seller has been truly wonderful to work with. They’ve invited me in […]
Preventing Waste Line Noise in a Two Story Home
The Issue We’re at the inspection and I ask my client to stand near a downstairs wall that I suspect holds the waste line for an upstairs toilet. Before heading upstairs I asked her to listen for sounds of rushing water. I flush. I hear a few comments from the downstairs “listener” (and they’re not […]
Home Inspector Business Development at Deep South Inspector Conference
The Deep South Inspector Conference included Hollis Brown sharing the Do’s and Do Better’s of the home inspection business. He says, “you learn in two ways, by repetition and by shock”. The key is to not be repeatedly shocked! Hollis Brown came to the home inspection profession in 1997, a 25â€year veteran of the east coast home building […]
Are You Remodeling a Foreclosure? Inspect It First {Listen to This Podcast}
Podcast by ASHI – Inspect that foreclosure!