It’s not an easy job, yet most think it is & I laugh. I have three different industries under my belt in the last 30 years of business, and this is by far the hardest, most demanding job for many reasons
Below are most of the reasons the business has a 75% failure rate within two years.
Being a "successful" home inspector involves much more than looking at the surface. It requires attention to detail, knowledge of building systems, and most important,ly the ability to spot hidden issues that could affect the safety and value of a home & protecting your client, the buyer of the home
Great Home inspectors need to have a solid & detailed understanding of structural, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and all other systems of the home, as well as be able to communicate their findings clearly and professionally & have a super clean background check in licensing states, be able to talk to Realtors, sellers, buyers, contractors and anyone in a professional manner. Which is why most awesome contractors and trades people would fail at this job. There are also many hours a year of continuing education & tests you have to complete to keep your license.
You also can not clock out at 5 pm or start at 9 am. I start at 5:30 am every day and usually end around 8 pm, sorry, I have to read to my two young children & help get them ready for bed.
Real estate is a 24/7 job, I still get calls at 10 pm on Sunday, and calls on Thanksgiving and Christmas, and everything should have been done yesterday, the urgency to get the results & product (the report) to your clients is insane and demanding. The last 11 years I have had ZERO days off, that is not a lie or an exaggeration. I have taken "vacations" but still end up working daily.
My inspection company is one of the busiest and best in Cincinnati so that will require more "work" every day, and sometimes 10 hours straight without a breather or what I call a five-minute break.
I average 200 text messages and over 100 emails DAILY. My stay on it, attitude and approach to replying to emails faster than most people can respond to a text makes us a successful firm, and I am still out in the field doing inspections. Excellent and fast communication to my real estate partners is a must & another reason most people fail at this the"stress" can be overwhelming to anyone
It’s also a physically demanding job—there’s crawling into attics, inspecting basements with mold, asbestos, high radon, climbing on roofs, and dealing with potentially hazardous conditions, along with sellers who are the most irritating people in the world, not all of them but most. In the past, there have been hiding dangers. Racoons & Bats in attics, slipping on hidden wet railroad ties, falling into water gardens or window wells that are hidden buried in snow, electrical shocks, snakes & dangerous spiders in crawl spaces, nails going into your head or back while in attics, falling off roofs & go ahead and get a splatter of poop on your face while doing a sewer scope.
So if you would like to learn how to get 10,000 steps in daily in 3 hours of an inspection, then come ride along with me for a day. You will think twice when you think being a home inspector is easy
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