Updated 2023 edition. The Home Inspection Business and Mold Testing is one of the fastest-growing businesses today. It is ideal for starting part-time and before you know it, you will have a full-time business with a great income.
Over 180 pages. Very little start-up cost.
Don't pay thousands to attend a week-long course. Everything you need to know about starting a Home Inspection business from a Pro that has been inspecting for over 25 years, inspected thousands of properties and knows all the angles.
I will teach you the tricks and tips that most do not know. How to find the core information and skills. How to avoid the pitfalls, I will include a free [typical] Home Inspection Report that is a proven winner, including the contract that others will not share. I will teach you Business Set Up, Equipment, Marketing, Liability, Fees, Mold & Radon, and Report Writing.
I will teach you about a long list of specialty Inspections that you can Include and market that most Home Inspectors don't even think about.
The secret to fast, accurate Home Inspection Reports is "Pre-formated Sentences". Over the past 25 years, I have created a comprehensive library. I was surprised to find out it was over 1,000 sentences. Now that I am retired, I am willing to share them with you. They will speed up report writing and make them very accurate every time. By studying the sentences, you will learn what to inspect, what to expect, and how to report what you find. This will create the "Aha Moment" where it all makes sense. Includes the forms you will need: Contract Inquiry Form, Field Sheet and Invoice
As a kid, whenever I saw an old clock at a jumble sale or going cheap, I would buy it and take it apart to see how it worked. I don't think I ever got one back together again, but I enjoyed tinkering with them.
Twenty years later when I was getting married, now living in the USA, Auntie Florrie wrote to me saying I could now have my Grandfathers clock.
I arranged to have the clock shipped over and it was proudly placed in the entrance hall to my home. It was built in about 1880 in Maghull England by a local clockmaker, [before the electric light was invented], had a stately mahogany case, hand-painted dial and ran nicely.
After a few years, it stopped. I was frustrated that I didn't know what was wrong with it or how to get it going. I ended up having it serviced by a local repair shop and it ran again. I was fascinated with the clock.
In 1995, my family decided to spend a year in England including putting the kids in school. It was a big challenge to arrange to swap houses with an English family. Finally, we were settled, and the kids started school, my wife was volunteering at a local charity shop and suddenly I had time on my hands.
I read the paper that morning and came across an ad for a clock course starting nearby at Manchester City College. I called the college and they told me it was a three-year course, one day per week. I explained I was only in the country for one year, so I persuaded them to let me take the course, coming all three days.
I enjoyed the course and did very well. The final exam took several weeks, making a ‘suspension bridge' from scratch to exact specifications, restoring several old clocks and watches. I documented the process and took the extensive final written exam all set by BHI [British Horological Institute]. I did pass the exams and became a Horologist.
25 years later I teach clock repair classes and ‘pass it on'. This is the class workbook.
