Start Your Own Home Inspection Service [Paperback]

Entrepreneur Press (Author)

Book Description

Series: Start Your Own Home Inspection Service | Publication Date: December 1, 2003

Handy around the house? Turn that talent into a lucrative career!

New home sales are booming. So is the need for qualified home inspectors, making this one of the fastest-growing businesses in the real estate field- with no end in sight. There are an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 home inspectors in the United States and Canada. More than 40 percent of home sales now include inspections, a number that is expected to double over the next 5 years, especially in the light of the rapidly increasing cost of housing.

As a home inspector, you'll examine the interior and exterior of the home and give potential home buyers an objective, informed decision. Many home inspectors earn $500 to $800 per day, and a pro shows you how you can, too. This concise, no-nonsense guide tells you how to start and operate a successful home inspection business without spending a lot of money.

This comprehensive guide to starting your own home inspection business shows you:

• Typical start up costs for low-end and high-end businesses
• How to select a location for your home inspection business
• Aspects of operating from a home-based office versus a commercial office
• Inspection equipment you will need to run your business
• Legal forms and requirements
• How to do market research-stages, primary research methods, secondary research, and other factors.
• How to keep records, manage your finances, and stay ahead of your tax liability
• How to advertise and promote your business to achieve market penetration
• Market groups you can't afford to overlook

This guide represents your opportunity to start and run your own business-to be your own boss, decide your own fate, set your own course, and succeed by your own wit and courage. If you've got a knack for finding trouble spots in homes and are handy with tools, this is a book that can put you on the road to establishing your own successful home inspection business.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press; 1 edition (December 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932156011
• ISBN-13: 978-1932156010
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #691,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Serious lack of useful information in this book, October 18, 2003

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J. Ashburg (West Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Start Your Own Home Inspection Service (Paperback)

Buying and reading this book was a mistake. The author is obviously just a book writer and knows nothing about the home inspection service! That was clearly evident since I am a home inspector and there was nothing any novice inspector could learn from this book that they wouldn't already know. If you want to learn about home inspections then you have to buy a book written by an expert in that field - a home inpsector with many years of experience - not an author that writes books on random topics! There are other books that are far superior to this book. My recommendation is don't buy this, spend your money on another book.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars There are better books out there, April 1, 2004

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K. BEARLEY "wearmeout" (ASheville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Start Your Own Home Inspection Service (Paperback)

If you're looking for real, useful information on starting a home inspection business, or becoming a better home inspector this book won't help you much. It doesn't take long before you realize the person writing this is not a home inspector. Mostly filler, with very little content. The "how to start your own business" tips can be applied to ANY business & are very basic. I got so frustrated with the lack of information I just stopped reading it 2/3 of the way thru.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars NO help for starting an inpsection business!!, March 27, 2005

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David Cohen (Oakland, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Start Your Own Home Inspection Service (Paperback)

I bought a lot of books to learn how to do home inspections and become a pro home inspector for a new career. This book was one of the worst since the title makes you think you will learn about how to start and run a home inspector company. But the fact is that the concepts explained in the book can be applied to ANY business because they are so basic and general and have NO specific link to home inspector companies. The book is written by someone who definitely is NOT a home inspector and knows nothing about home inspections. Perhaps they know about starting a general type of business or company. The problem is that they just took general basic information and put it into a book that can be applied to anything and has no relevance to home inspectors. You could change the title and put any type of business on the title and you would not have to change the text inside and you would see the simple ideas in the book do NOT help you out. I do NOT think this is the right choice for anyone looking to be an inspector or start an inspection business. There are other books on Amazon that are far better than this one!!