When it comes to running a home inspection business, most of us are working with limited information. We likely have a vague understanding of where we want to be and the goals that we’d like to shoot for, but have spent little time or energy hashing out the details. Dreaming about the big picture is easy to do and can …
A Better Way
Running a professional home inspection business can be a lot of fun, but it can also be the source of a lot of personal grief. All too often, we find ourselves stuck in a rut, dealing with (seemingly) the same problems over and over again. Too many times, we’re replaying the same day in our minds, following the same well-worn …
Cheap Home Inspections
Much like everything else for sale in our commoditized world, the home inspection industry has its own system that perpetuates a cycle of low costs, mediocre products, and hidden costs -often to the detriment of both the inspector and the homeowner. The companies offering cheap home inspections aren’t necessarily aiming to deliver subpar services, but rather they are making choices …
Should We Step Back?
If we take a step back and examine our lives, we’ll probably realize that we spend an inordinate amount of time doing things that, all in all, are net negatives. Which on the surface, seems like a crazy thing for us to do. Considering that we could be using the same time and energy to do something that’s a net …
Try, Try Again
Think about your favorite pastime. Golf, fishing, running, cooking, whatever it is that you love. If you’ve been doing it a while, then you’re probably pretty good at it. Whether you can drive straight off the tee box, drop a lure into a 5-gallon bucket from 50 feet, push a 7-minute mile, or make a kick ass jambalaya without even …
Whatever the Cost
There is nothing in this life, from which we derive some benefit, that does not come at a cost. Even the most innocuous event, like sitting on a sandy beach watching the sunset, comes with a built-in opportunity cost. When we do something that we would otherwise consider to be happening for free, like looking at the sky or sitting …
The End of the Line
It seems that, as we get older, there are fewer and fewer inspectors we can “look up to.” Most of those inspectors have retired (and some didn’t even make it that far.) It’s a hard fact to deal with, but we all get older and we all, eventually, reach the end of the line. Eventually, we’re going to be one …
Isn’t That the Point?
Nobody said it was easy. Coldplay, The Scientist Wouldn’t our lives be so much simpler if everything was easy? No more difficulty. No more pondering. No more sleepless nights lying awake, thinking about all the things on our plate. No more agonizing choices; no more hard decisions. Everything, just easy. Want to take the day off? No problem. Need to …
Our Three Buckets
If you own a small business, you are well acquainted with marketing, and depending on your persuasion, you either love it or hate it. Regardless of your feelings, positive or negative, marketing is an important part of your overall business strategy. Market well and you’ll likely be doing it for a long time. Fail to do it well and eventually …
Intelligence and Wisdom
The list of cool, hi-tech home inspection tools (toys?) seems to be growing every day. IR cameras, crawlspace robots, drones, 360 cameras; the list goes on and on. With all this amazing technology, it seems like anyone could be an inspector. And they can. In most states, the requirements are slim for individuals looking to get into the home inspection …