Here we answer questions about getting a home or commercial property inspection, give tips on home maintenance, and share our knowledge about common home and commercial property issues. We are here to help you. If you can’t find an answer to your questions here, you can always contact us via our contact page.
Let me clear something up right away. A $1M house does not equal a low-maintenance house.In a lot of cases, it means the opposite. In places like Piperton and Rossville, I inspect some absolutely beautiful homes. Big footprints. Clean lines. Gated drives. The kind of places where buyers assume everything
Log homes look solid. Thick walls. Heavy timbers. People assume they’re bulletproof. They’re not. Logs are organic, and organic materials don’t just sit there forever behaving themselves. They move, they absorb moisture, they dry out, and when conditions are right, they get eaten—slowly and quietly—by things you won’t notice until
If you’re buying a storefront on a small-town square in Bolivar or Whiteville, you’re not buying a building. You’re buying a relationship. And that relationship includes your neighbors’ roofs, their plumbing, their drainage, and sometimes their bad decisions from 40 years ago. Main Street commercial buildings don’t live in isolation.
If your crawlspace in West Tennessee still relies on passive vents, it’s already losing. I don’t care how new the house is. I don’t care what the builder said. And I definitely don’t care that “it’s how they’ve always done it.” In the Delta climate—from Memphis to Jackson—passive crawlspace vents
Homes near the SEMO grain corridor live in a different environmental reality than properties tucked into residential subdivisions. In places like Sikeston and Scott City, grain elevators, rail spurs, and processing facilities aren’t just part of the skyline — they actively shape the air, pests, and building conditions surrounding nearby
Cape Girardeau’s historic brick homes weren’t built to fail — but they were built for a soil and climate that behave very differently than most buyers expect today. When I inspect 1920s-era masonry homes in the Haute Mode neighborhoods, I’m not just looking for cracks. I’m looking for movement patterns
Radon in East Tennessee isn’t hypothetical. It’s not a “maybe.” It’s not something you wait to worry about after you move in. In this part of the state — Knoxville included — radon is baked into the geology, and basements are the easiest way for it to get inside your
Mountain cabins in East Tennessee sell a promise. Views. Quiet. Space between neighbors. A big deck hanging out over a slope that makes you feel like you’re floating in the trees. Buyers step out onto that deck and immediately picture coffee, sunsets, maybe a hot tub if the structure looks
I get why people hesitate on inspections in Farragut. I really do. When our Knoxville inspector sends me a report from Farragut, the photos usually start the same way: clean siding, sharp brick lines, tidy landscaping, roofs that still smell new. These houses look done. They feel done. And buyers
There are a handful of findings that make me stop scrolling when I’m reviewing an inspection report. Termites are one of them. Not because they’re rare—but because in East Tennessee, they’re normal, and normal problems are the ones people ignore the longest. When our Knoxville inspector sends me a report
New construction is supposed to remove uncertainty. Buyers expect modern materials, current codes, and fewer surprises. In fast-growing markets, that expectation is often misplaced. In and around Jackson—particularly for buyers commuting from Humboldt and Milan—new homes under the $400k range are going up quickly. Too quickly. Builders are racing schedules,
When you buy commercial property, you’re not just buying walls and roofs. You’re buying the dirt underneath them — and its past. A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) exists to answer one question:Are there environmental risks tied to prior use that could become your liability? We start with historical
