We are putting our house on the market next week. Is A Pre-listing Home Inspection A good Idea?

Making the decision to sell Your home is a huge step for most homeowners.  But once the decision is made to sell, then making your home Marketable should be your number one goal!   I understand the emotional attachment You have to your home but you must be realistic about the home as well.  No home is [...]

The Heating and air-conditioning is only 2 years old. That’s a good thing, right?

Yes, the newer the HVAC system is then the longer it should last.  Providing it was properly installed.  This leads me to my next post.  I inspected a home last week that was 65 years old and the HVAC system had been recently updated.  I operated both units and they performed properly.  When I inspected [...]

All because I bothered to look.

I was part of a crowd gathered around the coffee pot at a home inspection training seminar last week.  The topic turned to bad home inspectors.  Inspectors who do not properly inspect all areas of the home.  There were several stories about home inspectors not inspecting the crawlspaces of homes.  It sounded like professional suicide [...]