Author: Wesley Upchurch

One of the most misleading assumptions buyers make is that moisture problems announce themselves through smell. If a house doesn’t smell musty, sour, or damp, it’s easy to believe moisture isn’t an issue. In practice, that assumption fails often—especially in the regions we serve. At Upchurch Inspection, we routinely inspect

If you asked most buyers which system matters most in a house, you’d hear the same answers over and over: the roof, the HVAC, the foundation. Those systems are visible, expensive, and easy to imagine failing. The system buyers most often underestimate is quieter. It doesn’t have a single piece

Homes that have spent time as rentals carry a distinct kind of history. Not worse, not better—just different. Inspectors learn to recognize it quickly, often before a single defect is written down. The clues aren’t dramatic. They’re practical, repetitive, and rooted in how rental properties are typically maintained between tenants.

Flipped homes are everywhere in the markets we serve. From older neighborhoods in Memphis and Jackson to fast-moving areas around Nashville and Little Rock, buyers routinely walk into houses that look new, clean, and move-in ready—often after sitting vacant only months earlier. A fresh flip can feel like relief. New

Inspectors don’t walk into a home with a checklist running in their head from the first second. The checklist comes later. What happens first is something quieter and harder to describe: orientation. Within the first few minutes, experienced inspectors begin forming a working picture of how a house lives, ages,

Most inspection conversations focus on what could go wrong soon. Buyers ask what needs repair now, what might affect closing, and what feels urgent in the next few months. That’s understandable—but it’s also incomplete. At Upchurch Inspection, experience across Memphis, Jackson, Little Rock, Jonesboro, Cape Girardeau, and Middle Tennessee has

One of the most common misunderstandings inspectors encounter doesn’t come from malice or unrealistic buyers—it comes from silence. No one explicitly says a home inspection is a warranty, but many buyers subconsciously treat it like one. When something fails months after closing, the question surfaces: Why didn’t the inspection catch

Almost every experienced homeowner can point to something that failed after closing and say, “That wasn’t in the inspection.” It’s an understandable reaction—and one we hear across Memphis, Jackson, Little Rock, Jonesboro, Cape Girardeau, and Middle Tennessee. At Upchurch Inspection, we don’t avoid that conversation. We explain it. Because inspections

Being a regional inspection company isn’t about having a bigger service map. It’s about how experience carries across borders—and how that experience changes the way inspections are performed, explained, and understood. At Upchurch Inspection, operating across West Tennessee, Central Arkansas, Northeast Arkansas, Southeast Missouri, Middle Tennessee, and Central Kentucky has

Most buyers think inspections are stressful because they uncover problems. In reality, inspections become stressful when buyers don’t understand what they’re looking at—or what the information is supposed to help them do. At Upchurch Inspection, across Memphis, Jackson, Little Rock, Jonesboro, Cape Girardeau, and Middle Tennessee, we see the same

Deferred maintenance rarely announces itself as a single, dramatic failure. It shows up quietly, in patterns that develop over time, often blending into what looks like “normal aging” until ownership changes hands and those small delays start compounding. At Upchurch Inspection, deferred maintenance is one of the most common underlying