So, welcome to class everybody. Let's do a home inspection on this house. Every home
should be inspected every year. And a home inspection should be a part of a
homeowner's routine home maintenance plan. Why? Out of the one hundred and thirty
million homes in the United States, thirty million of them have a defective
heating plumbing or electrical system, twelve million have problems with water
leaks, four million have experienced mold problems within the last year, and seven
million have serious damage to the roof. And none of these housing problems were
discovered until there was a home inspection. So if you're a homeowner you
need to hire an InterNACHI Certified home inspector as part of your routine home
maintenance plan. And where do you find one? InspectorSeek.com. If you're a
homeowner, hold on! You're gonna go through a home inspection and find
defects with us that were not discovered until a home inspection was performed on
that house. If you're a home inspector grab, your notebook. Let's do a home
inspection on this home. What I do is I follow the Standards of Practice. And
that Standards of Practice does not require any home inspector to walk upon
any roof surface. And this is another photograph that I put into my best
marketing piece that I make every day, which is my home inspection report. Why?
Because if I just look read your home inspection report, I should have enough
information from your home inspection report to make a decision on whether or not I
should hire you as a home inspector. A real estate agent will say, "Well, it was
it's grandfathered. Right? That defect is grandfathered." Really?! I don't care
when the house was built. I really don't. I don't care if it's brand-new
or 35 years old. Right? I'm looking for defects. Are you required to report upon
every defect that exists in a home? When I do an inspection, I shoot video. Shots
the exterior stucco on this is a missing kickoff.
Not only is water streaming down the exterior, it could be streaming on the
interior the wall cavity. Could have water intrusion. So there's a bulge in
the stucco. That's a trip hazard. Electrical defect: the grounding wire has
been disconnected. The dryer is exhausting into the garage I bring a
picnic blanket and that's my picnic blanket and my infrared shows that
there's moisture there so now I'm on the hunt for water intrusion in a building
cavity wall so I exceed the standards of practice by moving insulation it's an
extendable it's a gardening tool extendable handle it's a hoe it's a
three tine health but there's hardly anything you can say to kill the deal
your client has found their dream home that they love there's hardly anything
that you can say to break that TPR does not have a pipe extension to the floor
it's sitting in mud and that's what it looks like feet real silly but Manfred
camera can show same thing here this is my inspection report the actual
inspection report you know internet she has a marketing team they work for you
it's a lunch box kind of and you leave it as I leave behind for the seller so
what you do is you attach your business card here and you can put anything you
want in here to communicate that every home should be inspected every year as
part of a homeowner's routine maintenance plan this book the home
maintenance book you can customize the cover the design work is of no cost it
tells your client to hire you again this gives weight to my inspection this was
no overhead to me but I increased my fee by ten dollars I didn't pay for it I
load my client to pay for it and they bought my coffee for the day if the
perceived value is much greater than the cost then that's a good business
decision I never bought my own infrared camera right what I did was I initially
bought it but then raised my feet and allowed my clients to hire a home
inspector who uses infrared if I add value like this service to my inspection
service I don't charge for it I raise my feet the more overwhelming
value you provide the higher fees you can demand
consider coming to the free inspectors convention hosted by Internet Chi if
you're a member of internachi it's totally free now see you in the next
class bye everybody thanks for coming