The idea credit is due to the realtor that helped us look at houses when my spouse was looking to buy a home. At the time I was a Union Carpenter and very happy with my career, I had also done maintenance and would be living with my spouse so I went to all the showings. The realtor said at one of the showings “You should be an inspector; you find more things wrong than the inspectors around here in 20 minutes’ then the do in 3 hours.” I laughed and shrugged it off, flattered, until we found the perfect property with a modest house perfect size for us and his son.
Of course, we had an inspection and our realtor insisted I fallow him to see what he dose and what he finds. I quit fallowing him half way through when I noticed effervescence on the stone in the basement utility room, he was rude and insisted he sees no water penetration issues in the basement and it will be bone dry years to come. Within a month of moving in our basement was flooded. That’s when I started searching on the best way to become a inspector in Michigan. Michigan law doesn’t require a inspector to be licensed but on micigan.gov the suggested Inter-Nachi. So, I signed up, completed my classes, purchased the software and did all the legal work to open ABC Home Inspections LLC. Vowing to myself that I would be the honest inspector for the Lansing Area, not the realtors’ favorite closing companion, with belief that people want an honest as possible inspection.