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Walking the whole inspection turned $2,500 into $6,200
First rental, 1970s three bed on a slab. I paid $525 for the general inspection and another $175 for the sewer scope, and I asked the inspector if I could follow him for the three…
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A home inspector assesses the physical condition of properties, examining structure, systems, and components and reporting findings to buyers, sellers, and investors who need to understand a property's condition before transacting, in exchange for inspection fees.
Log in to followFirst rental, 1970s three bed on a slab. I paid $525 for the general inspection and another $175 for the sewer scope, and I asked the inspector if I could follow him for the three…
I manage 140 doors and I've been pricing out an annual condition walk on every unit, roughly $180 a visit with photos and a punch list. Two things are stopping me. First, if I hir…
A listing agent I do trim and cabinet work for asked if I'd walk her sellers' houses a week before listing and hand them a written punch list. Her pitch is that she gets fewer sur…
Small mixed-use building, two retail bays and four apartments over. Seller had a pre-listing inspection done six weeks before I got there, 38 pages, photos, a roof section that re…
Numbers first. 44 doors under management, mostly single family rentals and a few duplexes. Last spring I put an annual condition walk in front of every owner at $185 per unit, bil…
I do renovations, so I read a lot of inspection reports on houses that are about to be torn into. The reports are good. The pricing makes no sense to me. A guy spends three hours…
I got the inspector's agreement by email before he'll schedule, and I read the whole thing, which apparently nobody does. Paragraph 9 says his liability for anything, including ne…
Something an inspector said to me stuck. He said a meaningful slice of his work now is second inspections on houses that already failed once, either because the first buyer walked…
Triplex under contract at 585k, small city, all three units occupied, 2 bed each, rents 1,150 / 1,150 / 1,275. My fourth deal and the first one where the report actually scared me…
I own land and one small house I've held for six years. An inspector I met at a county thing pitched me on what he calls a maintenance inspection. Same walk-through as a purchase…
Working through my first purchase and the question came up before I expected it. My agent wants to send the seller the full report as an attachment with the repair request. Her re…
I run three inspectors. Purchase inspections mostly, a few pre-listing walks. One of them narrates the entire thing. Buyers follow him around, he explains the panel, he explains w…
I'm close enough to being licensed that I'm working out where the phone calls come from, and every person I ask gives me the opposite answer with total confidence. Agent referrals…
Adding a pre-listing inspection product looked easy on paper. Sellers want to know what's coming, they'd rather find the bad news themselves, and I already had the inspector relat…
I'm under contract on two houses in the same suburb, closing 11 days apart, and I ended up with two different inspectors because of scheduling. So I have both agreements side by s…
Inspection keeps coming up as the piece of my real estate service work that I could do myself rather than refer out. What I can't find a straight answer on is the cost to be legit…
I've been sitting in on inspections when friends buy houses because I find them interesting, and one of the inspectors let me buy him lunch and ask questions. I'm writing down wha…
I'm one of the smaller checks in a group that holds a handful of small multifamily buildings, and I've been reading the operating invoices instead of just the distribution notice…
Cosmetic flip, 1,340 square foot ranch, built 1961. I walked it twice, wrote a scope, and waived the inspection to win against two other offers. I frame, I tile, I've torn out mor…
Reading two inspection agreements side by side for a property with a fair amount of connected equipment. Thermostats, four cameras, a leak sensor setup tied to a valve, a video do…