If your 1-year or 2-year warranty is about to expire on your new home give me a call. What many folks don't realize is that the things we find can become major repairs down the road as well as repair items when you sell. Almost all problems in used homes started or were caused at the time of construction. Don't forget, used homes started out as new homes too! My inspection pays for itself. Don't believe it? Take the Challenge.

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Why call me?

I do a better inspection based on experience and from client feedback. Home building superintendents and project managers call me to inspect their personal homes. They know me, they've seen my inspections and they know the difference. I've even inspected homes for home inspectors buying homes. While some inspection companies will only inspect homes to some minimum (fall over and hit them in the head) standard, we go beyond those minimum standards when inspecting your home. 

Look, home inspectors and real estate sales people are licensed through TREC (Texas Real Estate Commission) for resale/used properties. This TREC does not require the home inspectors to be code certified in order to do home inspections so the majority are not.

In February 2009, Texas adopted a upgraded inspection standards of practice which according to the state (TREC) "that more accurately reflect current technology, codes, and practices that form the basis of many of the standards". Take the Challenge and see for yourself on your own home right now.

Ask yourself, how can one comply with the mandate (to accurately reflect current codes, and practices that form the basis of many of the standards) without code knowledge or of code certified?

I guess the question is why are you hiring a home inspector that is NOT code certified to inspect any home? The other question is how qualified is the home inspector to inspect resale/used homes and know when a code violation is present?

So if you expect your inspector to have any building code and construction knowledge then we recommend you get one that is code certified and one that is experienced.

Sadly, many people are talked out of having an inspection by either their builder or real estate agent.

"You don't need an inspection on this home, it's brand new, if anything goes wrong, you have a warranty!"

is what most consumers are told. If that doesn't work, the new home owners are then told....

"We have a third party inspection done on your home, there is no need in you hiring your own inspector"

They may have had an inspection company come out and inspect your new home, but what they won't tell you is that it was a inspection that the builder designed and they have no obligation to fix anything. Plus, what can you expect for a $35.00 inspection. That builder/inspector vendor deal is better than the fox watching the hen house. Seriously ask yourself why a builder needs to hire a third-party inspector. His superintendents are not qualified to build homes?

Look, it's common to write 40-60 page reports on new homes that were inspected by the "builders inspector". It's obvious some of those guys don't know what a defect or code violation is. Smart homeowners call their own inspector out and found these problems before they moved in. Others weren't quite as lucky and only found these major flaws and defects because they had a warranty inspection before their warranty ran out. Others will only find out later down the road that they have major defects and flaws in their homes that could have been fixed easily during construction had they only known!

"Take the Challenge". It will help you appreciate what I'm saying even more.

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"At the time of the inspection if you don't feel we have shown you significant items in need of repair you won't pay anything. That's a great offer you can't pass up." See my Promise to you.

I think most of us have seen more than one news story where a group of home owners had been taken advantage of by a builder. Did you ever ask yourself "How could they have let that happen?" It's easy.

They listened to their real estate agent or builder and never had it inspected

They chose the wrong inspector.....either the cheapest one they could find or one referred to them by an agent.

You know the warranty is about to expire. Maybe you haven't had any problems with your home. The builder assured you that you didn't need an inspection before you bought the home. He assured you that "their inspectors" were thorough and professional. That isn't the case from what we see.

The fact remains, every home I've done a inspection on has had problems that the builder needed to be called back out on to fix. Naturally, that saved my clients the cost of having to do the repairs. The majority of these are items are moderate to costly to fix. Many of the costly repairs you hear about home owners facing today do not just pop up over night. They were built into the home.

Even on the homes that I only found minor problems my clients are happy to have had the inspection done because now they have some kind of piece of mind.

If your builder or real estate agent assured you that you didn't need an inspection, and you went ahead and bought the home without the benefit of an independent inspection, then I'm telling you that it is of the upmost importance to have one before your warranty runs out.

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"I showed your report on the home you inspected for me to friends and they have all told me they did not get a document anywhere close to yours and as comprehensive when they bought."

Lisa - Galveston 8/2010

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There appears to be a greater emphasis in this economy for bulders to contract with a 3rd party private inspector on their homes so they can tell you they have a private inspector. You need to ask - Who is that guy? You should investigate that inspector as you would on the one you are hiring. What is he inspecting for?

I work for you. I look at each home as if I were going to buy it.

Call me today.

Call Jim at
281-337-4052