Inspection Connection

We know many of our listeners lie awake at night wondering what it's like to build a house in a Mexican desert? So Brad went and found out! Check out this episode all about incorporating charity and giving-back into our business models and lives... and then if you're feeling generous, please donate to the charities mentioned on the show via the links below. https://www.caringheartsmexico.org http://prestonsmarch.org  

After bad weather kept us from recording live in-person... we jumped on Zoom to talk all about job site safety.

Communication... it's what makes or breaks us in the business world. And Home Inspection is no different! Realtors and Inspectors alike have much to juggle when serving multiple parties... and sometimes, VERY important details slip through the cracks. So, after forgetting to bring the Beverage of the Day, Rose and Brad discuss some of the biggest information realtors have FORGOTTEN to disclose before an inspection.

WE'RE BACK! Wishing a very blessed and Happy New Year to all of our awesome listeners as we kick off 2021 talking all about how to boost your business goals in the new year! TLDR... the business growth will come when you grow yourself first.

As Home Inspectors, we're generalists who need to know almost everything about an industry where almost nobody knows anything about us. So, if you're shopping for a Home Inspector for Christmas... what on earth do you get them? Well we're so glad you asked!  In this week's episode, we talk tools of the trade and share what's on our Christmas wish list this year. From drones, to ladders, to footwear... we share what we're shopping for to stay current in the industry as we get ready to go into 2021.

It's common to make a "thankfulness list" during Thanksgiving. But a home inspector's thankfulness list looks mighty (and in our case, strangely specifically) different than the average person's. So, to celebrate Thanksgiving Week, Rose 'n Brad share what they're thankful for strictly relating to the trade of Home Inspection.

They say you should never do business with family... but they didn't say anything about RUNNING a family business. In so may ways, many home inspection businesses, at their core, are families serving other families. So since most of us will be spending a large amount of time with our families this week... that's exactly what we wanted to talk about. Because even today, the family still matters.

On this Veteran's Day, Inspection Connection and ASHI raise our drinks and tip our caps to all of our past and present servicemen and servicewomen. And it's our privilege to focus on those presently involved within the home inspection community. We sit down this week with three inspectors from across the country who describe how their military service has shaped their home inspection careers and businesses.

We catch up on listener write-ins submitted in response to the past several episodes. We'd love to hear from all of you! So if anything has resonated with you on the show, write us at podcast@ashi.org or DM us at our Facebook or Instagram pages @inspectionconnectionpodcast.

Mix a Manhattan and listen to Rose 'n Brad interview Dan Lin, the co-owner and operator of a father/son home inspection business in Hoboken, NJ. From Jersey to the Big Apple, and from high rise condos to suburbs, Dan has seen it all in 10 years of inspections. A true industry professional, he talks the talk and walks the walk... barefoot.

In a Halloween episode about how to scare safely... Rose & Brad get a behind-the-scenes breakdown of one of the most popular haunted forests on the East Coast, as they share a bourbon based Inspector B.O.D. (Beverage of the Day) with Dan and Paul, the managers of Markoff's Haunted Forest in Montgomery County, MD. Turns out it isn't monsters that scare these guys... it's the code inspectors.  Go to markoffshauntedforest.com to purchase tickets! Running now through November 1.

Cocktails in hand, Rose gives a deep dive into her marketing specialty (Social Media)... and Brad gets indignant about preferred vendors lists and turning the tables on the pay-to-play schemes popular with larger real estate brokerages.

A home inspector can get a bad reputation as The Bearer of Bad News, The Deal Killer, or The Boogeyman. But delivering bad news is all about, well... delivery. In this episode, Rose & Brad discuss tone and tact; interview a Northern Virginia Top Selling Realtor about communication between Inspectors and buyers; and drink the nastiest Inspector BOD (Beverage of the Day) to be featured on the show. Special thanks to our guest, Kristin Francis, of the Kristin Francis Team w/ Keller Williams Metro Center.

In an episode about "Burnout and Balance"... Rose and Brad do a shot, share what they do in their free time, and get into the difference between living to work versus working to live.

Rose and Brad interview The Building Consultant, Mark Parlee. Nationally known as a siding expert with over 43 years in the building and construction industry, he also serves as an expert witness in many high profile cases regarding improper siding installations.

How to best tackle a discussion about the most hot-button, nuanced, polarizing, and ever-evolving crises of our day? Rose & Brad give it a go as they discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the Home Inspection and Real Estate industries.

Amidst discussing and consuming hurricanes, Rose and Brad do a deep dive on emergency preparedness for home inspectors and home buyers alike.

In which Rose inspects a crack house and dead bodies hit the floor.

Rose and Brad introduce the new podcast... and themselves... as they talk about the show, upcoming features, and what it's like in the world of Home Inspection.