Inspector Toolbelt Talk

Most home inspectors don’t have an income problem, they have an “add-on” problem. If you’ve ever stared at a slow season calendar and wondered how to stop chasing volume, this conversation gives you a real path forward. Ian sits down with James Dick, a solo home inspector who grew his revenue by stacking smart ancillary services and turning one of the most overlooked opportunities into a true niche: Level 2 chimney inspections and chimney sweeping. James breaks down how he got trained, why h...

AI is getting smarter fast, and the home inspection world feels the pressure. But the real question is not whether artificial intelligence can analyze photos, draft an inspection report, or even send a robot into a crawl space. The real question is whether home buyers, agents, attorneys, and sellers will trust a do-it-yourself inspection workflow when the purchase is one of the biggest financial decisions most people ever make. We break down why we are not afraid of AI taking over the home i...

The home inspection world is entering a moment where the old rules don’t hold. We’ve spent years predicting how AI would show up in inspection software, report writing, and day-to-day operations and now most of it is already here. The tougher part is what comes next, because client expectations are shifting fast and the industry is starting to bend around them. We talk through what we mean by the “home inspection singularity” and why it feels like a point where everything converges: inspecto...

The fastest way to turn a curious homebuyer into a bounced visit might be the simplest thing on your site: a pricing page. We dig into the real question behind “Should I display prices on my website?” and why, for most home inspectors, the answer is a careful no. After years of building inspector websites and watching lead behavior, we’ve seen the same pattern again and again: people hunt for a number, find it, then vanish. That’s not transparency, it’s a leaky funnel. We talk through what’s...

If you’ve ever caught yourself saying, “I’ll just do it myself,” this conversation is going to sting in the best way. We sit down with Mike Marlow of Veteran Home Inspections to break down the deceptively simple idea behind Who Not How: stop asking how to do every task and start asking who already does it better, faster, and with fewer mistakes. For home inspectors, that single shift can mean more inspections, cleaner reports, less stress, and more time at home. We dig into real-world exampl...