Blind Home Inspector
Was Your Last Home Inspector Blind?
Learn Seven Things You Must Know To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Home Inspector
(1) Get A Home Inspection From A Company That Has Been In Business For Many Years:
Nobody works harder for you, the client than AHI Residential & Commercial Inspection! The success of the business depends on exceeding your expectations for quality and professionalism each and every time. Be sure to get an inspection from a professional company. Why? Because they have a vested interest in ensuring your Total Satisfaction!
Also, it takes a full-time inspector at least 300 inspections to develop the eyes, ears, and nose for hunting down problems. Part-time home inspectors simply don’t have the time in the field to develop that radar. Be sure to ask how many inspections the inspector conducts annually.
A quality full-time home inspector conducts between around 300 inspections annually – blind inspectors conduct 50 to 100 inspections annually. This means they can easily forget inspection procedures and miss defects.
Conducting 200-300 inspections each year requires extensive referrals, by prior clients, lenders, real estate agents, and others — so there is a much greater chance the home inspector is not blind!
On the other hand, if the home inspector is doing three inspections a day, he’s probably not spending the time needed to do a complete job. A complete inspection is going to take around 2 to 4 hours. We find that the average home takes 1 hr per thousand square feet with a minimum of 2 hours on site for a smaller home. The time to inspect the home can increase based on age, foundation type and condition. Anything less and you’re just getting a drive-by inspection. We have heard of larger home inspection companies in the area doing 45 minute inspections. If this happens to you we recommend contacting us or another home inspection company to perform a proper home inspection.
(2) Education & Training:
Being a contractor is very different from being a Professional Home Inspector. Home inspectors are responsible for evaluating all of the systems and components of the home — not just one aspect such as the brick or the framing. To be able to provide a competent evaluation of all of these elements takes formal education and training.
Did the inspector attend one of the top home inspection schools, or did he complete a correspondence course, or have his brother in law Bubba show him how to inspect?
Comprehensive, continuing education and training is a must!
(3) Certifications:
While certifications are certainly important, it’s the combination of Experience, Education, and Training that make the difference in the competency of your next home inspector. Certifications let the world know that the inspector can pass a test, not that he can inspect a home properly. We all know people who are certified for one thing or another that we wouldn’t hire under any circumstances.
There is simply no substitute for experience and proper training.
(4) Advanced Technology:
Buying a home is an extraordinary investment. So why would you want merely an ordinary inspection?
There is no reason to wonder if you’re getting the best inspection if the inspector is using cutting-edge technologies and the proper tools — such as Laser Thermometer, Hand-Held Computer, Moisture Meter, Outlet Testers, etc
– Newer technology such as these will uncover “hidden” signs of damage and potential problems that might otherwise go undetected in an “ordinary” inspection.
(5) The Inspection Report:
The top home inspectors in today’s business don’t produce handwritten reports. A professional inspector will provide at least a 30+ page narrative report. It’s not some little 10-15 pages that you can’t read because he writes like your doctor.
You should want the report to be written in plain English, not some “Techno-Jargon”- that only the home inspector can understand.
The report should not contain repair cost estimates. Inspectors should NEVER make repairs or offer to make repairs at a later date.
An inspector that makes repairs should always be avoided due to the conflict of interest inherent in that situation. All national home inspection associations forbid this lack of integrity and objectivity.
Ask for a sample of an inspection report so you’ll know what you can expect for your time and money. After all, you are the client! Click here for a copy of our Sample Report.
(6) The Company That Offers The Cheapest Price Is NOT The Company You Should Hire:
The company that offers the cheapest price is generally showing you a couple of things; 1) they are new or part-time and 2) they really do not know their costs (they will not be in business very long).
If you want a thorough Home Inspection of, what most likely will be, the largest purchase of your life, you will want an experienced professional Home Inspection Company on your side. Hiring a Home Inspection Company with an experience that understands that they work for you and no one else is critical. Making sure that you, the buyer, understand the condition of your new property is, of course, our first priority.
* Inspectors that charge less, know-less, do less, and therefore inspect less. They typically do not carry the technology and tools that are necessary to complete a thorough inspection.
* AHI Residential always provides an on-site review of our findings with you. We make sure that you understand all aspects of the property. The final report, which includes photos, is emailed to you in a PDF file. We send it by the end of the next day.
(7) Ask To See What Other Home Buyers Have Said About The Inspector:
AHI Residential & Commercial Inspections ask their clients to complete comment cards upon completion of the inspection. Professional Inspectors want to know what they are doing right. They also want to know what might need improvement because you can’t improve what you don’t measure. If the inspector can’t or won’t provide client referrals, he might be blind in more ways than one! Clients gladly provide their feedback and we are happy to share them with you. Take a look at what they are saying about us in our reviews.
Among the many reasons you’d want to buy a home in Charlotte, AHI Residential & Commercial Inspections, Inc. will help you make your most informed decision in settling in and making sure your living experience will be an incredibly pleasant and memorable one.
We have seen many inexperienced and unreliable home inspectors leaving homebuyers and sellers a big deal of regret. Our professionals at AHI Residential & Commercial Inspections, Inc. have been dedicated to helping homeowners, home buyers, home sellers, real estate agents and the like acquire vital information about any issues and positive features of all aspects of the property they’re looking at. If you want to make the right move in one of the best places to live in the country, AHI Residential & Commercial Inspections, Inc. is your right choice to make it happen.
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