Serving Macomb & St. Clair Counties in Michigan
This site was designed to introduce our company. At the same time however, we try to answer many of the questions that you may have about home inspections in general, including pricing. Hopefully, we can even answer a few important questions that you haven't yet considered. If you are shopping for a home inspection, you may find the education received from reading this site to be well worth your time.
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The Nations Top Home Inspectors Share Three Common Attributes:
Experience: The nations top home inspectors have many years of practical experience working in the building trades, before becoming home inspectors. They know, from experience, how the components of a building are chosen, assembled, maintained, repaired and replaced. This experience is the very foundation of the inspection they perform.
Third Party Verification: The Examination Board of Professional Home Inspectors administers the National Home Inspector Examination. This exam is used by many of the states that require licensing of private home inspectors. In states like Michigan, where no licensing is required, having passed this test is a good way for you to have a reputable, third party, verification of an inspector's knowledge of at least the basics of home inspecting.
Independence: The nation's top home inspectors work independent of real estate sales agents. They do not rely on salespeople for inspection business. You will not find their brochures in any real estate sales office. Independent inspectors understand the inherent conflict of interest between the sales and inspection process. Independent inspectors do not have to worry about "saving the deal" to assure future business. For more information please visit: Independent Home Inspectors of North America
Caution: The vast majority of home inspectors in America
today receive the
bulk of their business
from real estate salespeople. Keeping these salespeople happy
has become the primary concern. Often times this is done at the expense of an
unsuspecting home
buyer with a soft inspection and/or report. So far,
only Massachusetts has banned the practice of salespeople referring
inspectors. If you live any where else, it really is "buyer beware."
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Although George has many hours of classroom training in home inspection procedures, it is his unique experience in the building trades, coupled with his independence from real estate sales agents, that really sets Champion apart from the competition.
WHY
HAVE A HOME INSPECTED?
The purpose for having a property inspected is to help you protect yourself in one of the most important investment decisions that you are likely to make. In order to be a more informed buyer, you need to know what defects are present, how serious those defects are and how much it is likely to cost to repair those defects. Armed with this information, you are able to make a more informed final purchase decision and / or price negotiation. Selling Price + Needed Repairs = "True Cost" of the Property. The appraised value, minus the "True Cost" of property = information you really need to know. In other words, if you are paying $245,000 for a home that is valued at $255,000 but we find that it needs $20,000 worth of repairs, you may decide to reconsider the purchase, or renegotiate the price or terms of the sale.
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George Moomaw is the founder and president of Champion Residential
Inspections Inc. George first began in the building trades in 1967. He is a licensed,
experienced builder and a journeyman mechanical trades
(HVAC)
technician. His HVAC experience includes working with plumbing and electrical
systems. George also taught building trade classes for a local public
school system. He first began performing home inspections in 1992 and
subsequently joined the American Society of
Home Inspectors
(ASHI), the
Independent Home
Inspectors of North America
(IHINA),
Association of Professional Home Inspectors
(APHI) and
The Michigan Association of Home Inspectors
(MichAHI). In the
year of 2000
a national home inspector examination was established. In may of
2000 George took and passed this
newly established test in order to provide you with a third party
verification.