Member of the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors
Professional Home Inspections performed by Saxon N. Bailey TREC #6784
Professional Home Inspector serving the Fort Worth, Texas area including: Acton, Aledo, Alvord, Annetta, Arlington, Aurora, Azle, Bedford, Benbrook, Bridgeport, Boyd, Burleson, Cleburne, Cresson, Crowley, Decatur, Denton, Eagle Mountain, Euless, Everman, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Granbury, Haltom City, Hudson Oaks, Hurst, Keller, Kennedale, Lake Worth, Lakeside, Mansfield, Mineral Wells, Newark, North Richland Hills, Pantego, Paradise, Rhome, River Oaks, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Springtown, Watauga, Weatherford, Westover Hills, Westworth Village, White Settlement and Willow Park. Also serving Denton, Dallas, Ellis, Erath, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Tarrant, Parker, Palo Pinto and Wise Counties.
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If you are in a hurry, please call me at 817-597-7859 with as much of the information about the house as you have handy to obtain the Homewise Home Inspections Pllc cost of your home inspection. If you have a few minutes, I suggest you read the entire page about Home Inspection Pricing differences.
The cost of a Homewise Home Inspections Pllc home inspection varies based on the following information:
• Size of the house
• Age of the House
• Foundation type: Crawl Space, Basement, or slab
• Outbuildings or recreational facilities included or not included in the inspection.
• As I service a large area, the distance I have to travel to get to the property may also play into the cost.
Please call me at 817-597-7859
Additional Texas Home Inspection Pricing information
So you’re spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on a home purchase, and paying the realtors 5 - 6% ($5,000 - $6,000 per $100,000) of the home’s value. (Where do you think the seller gets the money to pay the realtors?) Now it’s time to find a Home Inspector and find out what they are going to charge.
No matter how much you pay for a Snickers Candy Bar or, where you buy it, you still get a Snickers Candy Bar. Same quality. Same taste. Same appearance.
That maxim does not hold true when buying an opinion. And face facts, a Home Inspection is just the Home Inspector’s opinion (and the Inspector’s ability to communicate that opinion) of a particular house. Hopefully it’s an expert opinion based on knowledge, education, training, experience, and ability to communicate, but still just an opinion.
If a $25 or $50 difference in the price of the Home Inspector’s opinion is more important to you than what the opinion is based on (knowledge, education, training, experience, ability to communicate, type of report received, etc) and how much money that opinion can save you,
(YES, SAVE YOU), then stop reading after this paragraph. Go to the Yellow Pages, look under Home Inspections, and call each one asking just one question. “How much do you charge?” Don’t waste your time asking any other questions or listening to the Inspector explain the level of service. Just go until you get all through and then select the cheapest. To my knowledge, in North Texas, it’s about $175.
If you DON’T want the cheapest, least experienced, desperate for work, inspector, read further.
Can you trust your realtor’s recommendations? Usually yes, if they give you a list with eight to ten or more Inspector’s on it instead of just two or three names. Just remember, they don’t get paid if you don’t buy the house.
What should be more important to you than a $50 or $100 difference in price is what the Home Inspector bases the opinion on and how they communicate their opinion to you, the client.
The following questions regarding qualifications & cost apply.
My answers to these questions can be found at Why me?
What is your background?
This is the area that more Home Inspector's disagree on than any other area. Truth is there is no one particular set of experiences that adequately covers ALL of the system's in and around the home, how they work together, and how they age together. Once a person decides to become a Home Inspector, they must do a lot of learning and studying on systems outside their particular area of expertise. Look for continuing education in several different areas of a home's systems. It's more important than any one set of background experience. Look for a person that has a history of helping people in their time of need.
What is your Training and Continuing Education:
Inspection standards, construction standards, safety standards, generally accepted building practices and other issues change all the time. Is the Inspector making an effort to stay educated. Or are they just ignoring the new and continuing with the old.
Do you belong to any Professional Associations:
Some Home Inspectors don't believe in belonging to (as one inspector puts it) "all them dang associations". Legitimate professional Home Inspector's associate with other legitimate professional Home Inspectors (the same way other professionals associate with their peer professionals). These organizations provide training and continuing education for the professional Home Inspector along with a forum for their Home Inspectors to stay current with recent advances in the industry. They also provide a meaningful code of ethics and a standard of practice to guide the inspector.
Some home inspection organizations merely exist as a for-profit certification mill for a school (attend our training and you can call yourself a certified home inspector or a registered home inspector.) It is now very simple to do an internet search on the various organizations and determine the membership requirements.
You need to learn as much as you can about the condition of the property and the need for any major repairs Homewise Home Inspections Pllc to minimize unpleasant surprises and costly repairs afterward. Now is the time to schedule a thorough professional Homewise Home Inspections Pllc.
I know what I’m worth. The cut-rate inspectors know their own worth too!
Do your family, yourself, and your wallet a favor...pay a little more. The investment in a Homewise Home Inspections Pllc will help get you into a safe happy home instead of a Money Pit.
Note** Portions of above were reprinted from a Quality home inspector, www.B4UClose.com