Start Your Own Home Inspection Service

By Cheryl Kimball

Handy Around the House? Turn That Talent Into a Lucrative Business Home inspections have become standard for a large percentage of the seven million homes bought each year. This presents a huge market for professional inspectors. As a home inspector, you can earn $500 - $800 a day examining the interior and exterior of a home and giving potential home-buyers your professional, informed opinion. Learn everything you need to know to get started in this booming field. Industry experts reveal their tips and advice on: - Current typical startup costs for low-end and high-end businesses - Inspection equipment you'll need - Whether to operate from home or an office - How to keep records, manage your finances and stay ahead of your tax liability - How to advertise and promote your business to find clients - Market sectors you can't afford to overlook If you have construction experience or are simply handy around the house, a home inspection service is the business for you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599181282
• ISBN13: 9781599181288
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Good Very General Introduction to the Business

This is one book you should read before you go into business for yourself. It is not "THE" book on the subject. Instead, it is a general overview of how to start a business of your own, and only incidentally uses the idea of a home inspection service as the business to start. Before starting your own Home Inspection Service, you do need to know about a lot of things such as licenses, legal aspects, record keeping, setting up an office, and this is all here. The description of most of these is rather brief, but it will tell you at least the general concept of what you need to do. As for inspecting homes, this book points you in a few places that you should read and classes you could take. My own experience is that you should go to work for a home inspection service for a while to learn what the business is really like before you attempt to delve into it yourself.

Good for those starting inspection business

I agree with the previous reviewer that said this doesn't have any how/what-to-inspect content, but I think the authors intent was to help those interested in starting their own business. I think the author assumes you have or know where to get experience/knowledge on home inspection. He even recommends some sites. This book really helped me get a feel for the business of home inspection and how/where to start.