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Is your home inspector blind?  If he's not a member of the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI), he might just be! Other home inspection associations have no entrance examination.  Blind people, children, psychics (who claim to "sense" if a house is ok) and even pet...

I've seen many posts and comments educating and asking about posting videos to websites, blogs and emails.  You can see my method for emails here.  I'll discuss embedding to your website in this post.  I'm a home inspector, not a video professional but I know how it works and I like to help.  Vid...

Your inspector may or may not be required to have a minimun amount of insurance coverage.  Some states have licensing requirements while others do not.  Here in Washington, all inspectors are required to be licensed by the Washington State Department of Agriculture to be Structural Pest Inspector...

....perform any permit research for your clients?  I've been at inspections where there's an obvious addition that wasn't permitted.  A recent example was when I was walking on a garage roof and it felt soft, almost like it might give.  I immediately scurried down my ladder and went to check the ...

I have a feature for agents that I work with and past clients called VidTips.  It's basically a video newsletter with helpful information about owning a home.  I thought about emailing the actual video, however, that leaves you with only two options.  Either you attach the video to the email, whi...

I've read a couple posts on this site, and a few others, about real estate agents getting sued by their client because a home inspector missed something substantial and it was the agent that referred the inspector to their client.  I've read that because of this many agents will adhere to the phi...

Hi everyone, I don't intend on using my blog on Active Rain for advertising purposes exclusively but I'm a new member and I wanted everyone to be aware of my very different inspection business.  I'm so confident of my uniqueness that I'm willing to offer 50% off of an inspection if you can win th...

So I was at an inspection today for a very excited, first time homebuyer.  The inspection was going fine, nothing too major to note and the client was very personable and the agent is a good friend of mine so it was very low stress.  After explaining all the fun technical, maintenance, possible r...

"Move in Certified" is a great marketing tool that all sellers should take advantage of.  Give prospective buyers the trust and confidence they deserve by listing a home as "certified" from a third-party, un-biased point of view.  Also, give them the convenience of being able to view the pre-list...