AVOID THE BLIND INSPECTOR!
3 WAYS TO PICK A TOP-PERFORMING INSPECTOR
As the weather kicks up a few degrees and signs of spring emerge, buyers and sellers come out of the woodwork, tax refunds in hand. But when you’re thinking of putting an offer on your dream home or posting a property on the market, it’s vital you get a skilled inspector to ensure you won’t find any nasty surprises. Here are three ways to skirt inexperienced, inattentive home inspectors and find the very best option for you or your business. 1. Pick an Inspection FirmWith a Great Reputation Let’s face it, you can’t get consistent quality, punctuality, and professionalism each and every time from a one-person shop. No matter how skilled they may be, they simply don’t have the resources to deliver foolproof results. Be sure to ask your prospective inspector howmany inspections they conduct annually and howmany years they’ve been in the business. It takes a minimum of 250 inspections to develop the eyes, ears, and nose to hunt down serious problems. 2. Pick an Inspector With Education, Training, and Certifications Being a contractor is very different from being a professional home inspector. To be able to provide a competent evaluation of all the systems
and components of the home takes comprehensive and continuing education from one of the top home inspection schools. Keep in mind that while certifications are important, they let the world know that the inspector can pass a test, not that they can inspect a home properly. There’s no substitute for experience. 3. Pick an Inspector That Provides a Thorough Inspection Report Top home inspectors don’t produce two-page, handwritten
reports. Instead, they give their clients comprehensive, full-color reports that cover every possible issue, with digital photographs of specific concerns. In addition, the report should contain “summary pages” with specific categories of marginal and defective problems. What the report should not include are repair costs or action plans for repairs. Professional home inspectors inspect; they don’t repair! An inspector that makes repairs should always be avoided due to the conflict of interest inherent in that situation. At Liberty Inspection, we only employ experienced, top-performing home inspectors you can trust. If you’re looking for true peace of mind with your inspection, give us a call at 610-756-1002 or visit our website and download a free sample inspection report!
GET A GRIP ON YOUR BUSINESS WITH ‘TRACTION’ C H R I S E A R L E Y ’ S B O O K O F T H E M O N T H
If you’re a business owner like me, you know how difficult it can be to keep your company going in the right direction. I can’t tell you how many peers I know who struggle to properly manage their effort and time, basically letting their companies run their lives instead of the other way around. With the marketplace constantly changing, employees leaving or dropping the ball, profits stalling, and an endless to- do list, it can seem impossible to keep everything afloat, much less grow and evolve over time. After running Liberty Inspection for over 11 years, I feel like I’ve gotten a pretty good grip on the entrepreneurial process. But I also know that any good leader is constantly striving to learn more in order to better guide their team and serve their customers, so I’m always on the lookout for books that will help me sharpen my business and personal practices. Recently, I finished the popular “Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business” by entrepreneur Gino Wickman. It focuses on wrangling the problems described above and pushing your business to the next level.
one that actually backed up its claims with a comprehensive, powerful method to implement right away. Wickman’s Entrepreneurial Operating System provides crystal-clear instructions so you can establish what he identifies as the six key foundations for any healthy company: a compelling vision, a stellar team, tons of data, the means to overcome obstacles, carefully outlined processes, and what he calls “traction” — basically, the ability to get things done.
These principles might sound abstract and theoretical, but Wickman does a great job of bringing them into the real world and breaking them down into manageable components. I’ve already started to use some of his methods to examine key aspects of Liberty Inspection and to see how we can continue to drive the company forward. It’s exciting to come across a book so packed with new tools to strengthen the fundamentals of my business. I’d recommend it to any entrepreneur looking to expand their horizons and gain a little more control over their day-to-day.
There are tons of books that promise to transform the way you run your business, but I’ve never encountered
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