Guides

Short, specific answers to the questions people ask with an inspection report open in front of them.

• What “recommend further evaluation” actually means

  The most misread phrase in any inspection report — what your inspector means by it, and what it should cost you to resolve.

  4 min read

• How to triage an inspection report in 20 minutes

  A 60-page report is not a to-do list. Here is the order to read it in, and what actually deserves your attention first.

  5 min read

• What to ask the seller to fix — and what to ask for instead

  Repair requests fail for predictable reasons. How to structure an ask a seller will actually agree to.

  5 min read

• Who actually pays: insurance, warranty, or you

  Before paying for a repair out of pocket, check whether someone else is already on the hook for it.

  4 min read

• Why repair estimates are ranges, and how wide they should be

  Any single number attached to an inspection finding is a guess. What honest estimating looks like.

  4 min read

• Scanned or photo-only reports: what to do

  Some inspection reports arrive as images with no text layer. Why that matters and how to get a usable copy.

  3 min read