If you’ve seen a home inspection company advertising a “warranty” for their inspection, your instincts should kick in immediately.

This one is for homeowners who are doing their best to take care of their house… and still get hit with a sales pitch that sounds “technical” enough to feel real.

Once you share that home inspection report with your homeowners insurance carrier — even with good intentions — it can often hurt you.

When an inspection company is owned by (or deeply tied to) an insurance, warranty, title, or lending ecosystem, the inspection is no longer operating in a vacuum.

You’d probably expect a home inspector to say yes every time. But here’s my honest answer...

Clients sometimes ask me this question: “Would you buy this property?” Residential buyers ask it. Commercial investors ask it. And I understand why, but I'm not the person to ask.

It sounds reassuring. It sounds official. But here’s the question I can’t shake: how can we say a foundation is performing its intended function if parts of it have been jacked off the soil it was designed to float on?