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| In 2003, I became a home inspector. In 2004, I figured out what was wrong with home inspecting as a business. Yes, being a home inspector had all the benefits, the thing I liked the most is being your own boss. (Don’t tell my wife) The thing that was wrong with it, I found out, is that there is no exit strategy. Or in other words, there is no slowing down and enjoying your company. You always have to keep working and keep crawling into attics to make a living. I got into this business so that I would have a job when I was too old to expect anyone else to hire me. The problem is if you are unable to climb a ladder (not all attics are walk-ups) you are unable to make a living. |
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| The solution came to me in January of 2005. A program that would create for me, residual income. I called it my Home History Program. Every time I did an inspection, I told my client about my Home History Program, and about half of the inspections that I did became clients. It set up for the client, a program of my coming back to the house yearly and re-inspecting the home. At that visit, I would document how they addressed the problems that I had found when I did their first inspection, any new improvements that they might have done in their first year in the house, and I would also perform a short check-up inspection of the hot spots of the house. For this, they paid me $150.00 per year. I then documented all of this at the end of my original inspection report, and this one document then became the history of the house. This report would help the client sell the house since it chronicled how my client had taken care of his home. So, in effect, I became my clients’ consultant, a resource home owners have not had up until this time. With 400 people in your Home History Program, all paying you $150.00 per year, you have $60,000 guaranteed yearly income. This is a business asset that another home inspector could buy from you when you were ready to retire. Or, you might just answer the phone and hire someone to do your inspections for you, either way you now have an exit strategy. |
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| I created House Facks the reporting system as a National Database so that your client would have the benefit of his report being online. It can easily be accessed by interested buyers to help him sell his home. All that an interested buyer has to do is go to Housefacks.com and enter the home’s HIN number into the system and the Inspection report will be available to the buyer. Also, House Facks is a tool to be used by the home inspector to make running his business simple. Calendars, reminder system, client manager, realtor manager, mapping system are some of the tools that are at the inspector’s fingertips when he is using House Facks. Oh yeah, it is also an easy-to-use home inspection reporting system. |
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| Please give the system a try and send any comments or suggestions to |
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| dosborn@housefacks.com |
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| - Dan Osborn |
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