New home construction phase inspections

[Keith Swift, PhD.]

Residential Construction Performance Guildlines, by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), is a useful resource. PS Document with pictures.

[Greg Bell]

Michael Rowan gave a presentation this weekend on his new construction software. It is the best program I have ever seen for new construction. It has 65 pages of guidelines and checklists that will guide you through each phase of the inspection. It will be a great resource for anyone who has been putting off performing new construction inspections.

http://www.inspectorsuite.com/nc/

[jmichalski]

Yeah, Greg. We already got that infomercial on about 3 different threads now.

$500 to beta test their software...what a bargain!

[Greg Bell]

Think what you want Joe.

I have no financial stake in any product sold by Inspection Depot. I just wanted to share my experience on what I feel is a very good product. A product that could help some of our members who feel that they are not quite ready to jump into this market.

[jmichalski]

I wasn't implying you had any financial relationship to the software.

I was referring to the fact that they have posted it in about every forum on the BB.

The product might be outstanding. Still, beta tests are usually offered for free to a few particiapants while the bugs are worked out (even if for a limited trial time). Subsequent versions are tehn typically sold.

$1500 for software seems excessive. $500 to do their homework for them seems laughable.

I think those who want help with getting started with new construction inspections may better served taking a course in new constuction for far less than $1500 and using Word to produce a report that they can feel confident they understand - not just cribbing off of software.

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

I had the opportunity to view this software this weekend at the FABI Seminar and it is everything it is claimed to be, as a matter of fact I begged Mike Rowan not to sell it and take it off the market because it will allow people who have no experience in new home construction the ability to produce expert code-based reports.

If the average home inspection software is priced at about 5-times the average cost for a home inspection ($1,000) then I would expect New Construction software to sell for about $4,800 to $6,000, since a full 4-phase New Construction home inspection sells for between $1,200 & $1,500, it is an absolute give away at $500. Whats more... Its like putting a loaded 45 in the hands of a child. Just another opinion.