Making The Right Choice...

Your Choice of home inspector is one of the most important decisions you'll make in the home-buying process.
Home-Inspection-Tech has 30 plus years in the residential and commercial construction industry. We are trained in the field to inspect and identify potential problems, survey the home's condition, make full detailed customer reports and to ensure you won't come across any unexpected surprises down the road.

Our reports are designed with you in mind. Simple easy to read and highlighted pictures that cover every thing from the roof to foundation and beyond. Here are some of the many items I'll be looking at during your home inspection:

• Foundation and support structure
• Fireplaces
• Safety controls
• Basement seepage
• Water heater
• Ventilation
• Electrical Components
• Structural integrity
• Heating systems
• Air Conditioning systems
• Plumbing & fixtures
• Gutters & downspouts
• Insulation
• Windows & doors
• Surface drainage
• Optional Radon and Mold testing

I invite you to come along and watch the inspection of your home, for your peace of mind and for any questions you might have during the inspection.

What Really Matters...

Buying a home? The process can be stressful. A home inspection is supposed to give you peace of mind, but often includes a written report, checklist, photographs, environmental reports and what the inspector himself says during the inspection. All this combined with the sellers disclosure and what you notice yourself makes the experience even more overwhelming. What should you do?

Relax, Most of your inspection will be maintenance recommendations, life expectancies and minor imperfections. These are nice to know about. However, the issues that really matter will fall into five categories:

1. Major defects. An example of this would be a structural failure.

2. Things that lead to major defects, A small roof-flashing leak, for example

3. Things that may hinder your ability to finance, legally occupy or insure the home.

4. Safety hazards, such as an exposed, live buss bar at the electrical panel.

5. Pest infestation, such as termites, rodents and poisonous insects.

Anything in these categories should be addressed. Most sellers are honest and are often surprised to learn of defects uncovered during an inspection.

Realize that sellers are under no obligation to repair everything mentioned in the report. No home is perfect. Keep things in perspective. Do not kill your deal over things that do not matter. It is inappropriate to demand that a seller address deferred maintenance, conditions already listed on the seller's disclosure statement.

The above is an excerpt from Sell Your Home For More by Nick Gromicko. Copyright © 1997 Nick Gromicko.
More from Nick Gromicko at http://www.nachi.org

On Pre-listing Inspections...

Having your home inspected by a NACHI inspector before you list is the recommendation found in the new edition of the book, "Sell Your Home for More" by Nick Gromicko.

Eventually your buyers are going to conduct an inspection. You may as well know what they are going to find by getting there first. The author points out that having an inspection performed ahead of time helps in many other ways:

• It allows you to see your home through the eyes of a critical third-party. It helps you to price your home realistically.
• It permits you to make repairs ahead of time so that ......Defects won't become negotiating stumbling blocks later.
• There is no delay in obtaining the Use and Occupancy permit.
• You have the time to get reasonably priced contractors or make the repairs yourself, if qualified.
• It may encourage the buyer to waive the inspection contingency.
• It may alert you of items of immediate personal concern, such as radon gas or active termite infestation.
• It may relieve prospect's concerns and suspicions.
• It reduces your liability by adding professional supporting documentation to your disclosure statement.
• Alerting you to immediate safety issues before agents and visitors tour your home.
  

Copies of the inspection report along with receipts for any repairs should be made available to potential buyers.,

A Member In Good Standing...

A proud member of the InterNational Association of Certified Home Inspectors. Please check out the links below to learn more about our standards and my promise to you.

 

About InterNACHI http://www.nachi.org/about.htm

Our Standards of Practice http://www.nachi.org/sop.htm

Commercial Standards of Practice http://www.nachi.org/comsop.htm

Our Code of Ethics http://www.nachi.org/code_of_ethics.htm

Visit my website at InterNACHI http://www.inspectorpages.com/rtaylor

Great Real Estate Presentations at http://www.nachi.org/presentations.htm

A Full Inspection Includes...

As a InterNACHI member I must adhere to InterNACHI's Standards of Practice. This Means I will attempt to inspect all of the following (when accessible):

• Roof, vents, flashing's and trim.
• Gutters and downspouts.
• Skylights, chimney and other roof penetrations.
• Decks, stoops, porches, walkways, and railings.
• Eaves, soffit and fascia.
• Grading and drainage.
• Basement, foundation and crawlspace.
• Water penetration and foundation movement.
• Heating system and cooling system
• Water heater and main water shut off valves.
• Interior plumbing and fixtures.
• Drainage sump pumps with accessible floats.
• Electrical service line, meter box, and Main disconnect
• Grounding and bonding, outlets, GFCIs and AFCIs
• Fireplace damper door and hearth
• Insulation and ventilation.
• Garage doors, safety sensors, and openers.
• And much more....

Home-Inspection-Tech knows how important it is to establish these findings early in the buying/selling of real estate, I myself spent 15 years developing real estate for a profit and I still on occasion look for a good investment. In the beginning I bought some very affordable houses and found out why they where so cheap. Listen to this one example:

I purchased a house built in 1917 that was next door to me in a old mining city (Butte, Montana) and back in 1994 these homes where cheap because there was a lot of them available, I paid $11,000. for this two story 1600 sq .ft. home that was obvious it needed some work. If at the time I would of examined it closer I would have probably paid even less, But since I have years of construction experience I thought I would take care of the imperfections at a moderate cost. Well $5,000. dollars later I had realized it was not that great of investment even though I turned it into a nice looking duplex that rented out for $1,000. a month it still had one problem that even I could not overcome and that was the foundation was made of rock and poor cement that had settled to the point that walking into the front door you could notice a slope in the floor if you looked hard enough. It was clear that this house was not built by a contractor and that there was to much lime added to the cement which caused the cement to crumble and lose it's structural strength over time.

Whether you are a home buyer or investor try to avoid these costly mistakes by having the home inspected first by a qualified home inspector. Believe me $200-300. would have been a lot cheaper than $2000. dollars.

Single Family Homes...

 

	Deerlodge & Granite County	Silver Bow County
Up to 1,000 Sq. Ft	$200.	$215.
1,000 - 2,000 Sq. Ft.	$250.	$265.
2,000 - 3,000 Sq. Ft.	$275.	$285
3,000 - 4,000 Sq. Ft.	$300.	$315.
4,000 - 5,000 Sq. Ft.	$350.	$365.
5,000 and up	For every additional 1000 Sq. Ft.	add $50

 

Contact Between 6am-8pm Mon.-Sat....

Robert Taylor

Ph. (406)563-8202

Inspection Information Form pdf version of contact form

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