Report time

[mnicholet]

Takes me 3-4 hours to write a report with HG.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Also the location your inspecting in makes a difference. Mike, you live in a cold climate and have basements to deal with which makes a longer report. Brian inspects in Arizona where's there's no snow on the roof and everything's on slab. He's going to have less to do than you.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Also the location your inspecting in makes a difference. Mike, you live in a cold climate and have basements to deal with which makes a longer report. Brian inspects in Arizona where's there's no snow on the roof and everything's on slab. He's going to have less to do than you.

Dom, have you any data to support your claim???? Because I do not believe it it at all.

He asked how long it took to write the report, not how long it took to inspect. It pretty much takes me the same amount of time to enter my findings, unless the house is very large, has guest quarters, more the three HVAC systems, etc.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Also the location your inspecting in makes a difference. Mike, you live in a cold climate and have basements to deal with which makes a longer report. Brian inspects in Arizona where's there's no snow on the roof and everything's on slab. He's going to have less to do than you.

Agree with Dominic.

Basements can sometimes take more time than the rest of the report. I take anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours, depending on the home, and the number of pictures I include. In the beginning (newbie) I would spend 6-7 hours, making sure of the best report I could produce. Now I am about 2 hours average. Processing the photo's (resizing, anotating, arrows, circles, etc) take the majority of my time. When I am finished, I walk away for 30 minutes, refresh myself, clear my head, and then review the report. I do not send the report until I am 100% satisfied with the results. If I am unusually busy that day, and I suspect that I may run late with the report, I always call my client to inform them. I have never had a complaint, and have only received positive reviews of my report.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Dom, have you any data to support your claim???? Because I do not believe it it at all.

He asked how long it took to write the report, not how long it took to inspect. It pretty much takes me the same amount of time to enter my findings, unless the house is very large, has guest quarters, more the three HVAC systems, etc.

Brian, see post #19...

[Brian E. Kelly]

Maybe software that automatically does the photos and makes annotation easy would help.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Maybe software that automatically does the photos and makes annotation easy would help.

No question I need better software...

But...

Have you ever seen a "real" basement, and all the issues associated ???

[Dominic J. Maricic]

I've seen some crazy basement posts Brian. But the fact is that it adds areas they have to inspect. Some of these house are 100 years old (like one Joe Tribuzio posted last week) and have all sorts of problems. Plus, what's the average age of the house you inspect? I bet it's around 15-20 years old max. How many a week are < 5 years?

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Maybe software that automatically does the photos and makes annotation easy would help.

I was thinking that too Hey Jeffrey, want to work off a copy of HIP in trade for cookies?

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

I was thinking that too Hey Jeffrey, want to work off a copy of HIP in trade for cookies?

Name your terms Sir!!!

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by jjonas

Name your terms Sir!!!

I'll send you a pm with my demands

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

I've seen some crazy basement posts Brian. But the fact is that it adds areas they have to inspect. Some of these house are 100 years old (like one Joe Tribuzio posted last week) and have all sorts of problems. Plus, what's the average age of the house you inspect? I bet it's around 15-20 years old max. How many a week are < 5 years?

Oh my it is old what am I to do?????? You are kidding right????

We were talking about data entry Dom.

How many times does one need to see an old home before one realizes they are looking at an old home????

Look, if 2 to 3 hours is an acceptable time for someone to enter the data of their findings, so be it. It can be done faster.


PS exactly how much time does a Termite inspection, and a pool and spa add Dom??????

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Oh my it is old what am I to do?????? You are kidding right????

We were talking about data entry Dom.

How many times does one need to see an old home before one realizes they are looking at an old home????

Look, if 2 to 3 hours is an acceptable time for someone to enter the data of their findings, so be it. It can be done faster.


PS exactly how much time does a Termite inspection, and a pool and spa add Dom??????

I agree, 2 to 3 hours is too long. But a 50-100 year old home is more likely to take longer to do the report as it likely to have more problems. In certain areas of the country the average house is 50 years old, meaning more to report on. I look at reports guys upload all the time. Most reports from California and Arizona are a lot shorter than reports from colder states. You're right, some guys do termite inspections which will also make your report time. You are right about pools, though some guys skip the pool and refer it out. And in other areas inspectors have to add radon report time.

So what I'm saying is there's multiple variables that can extend the length of time a report needs to be done. A 100 year old house, with a basement, radon test, termite, infrared and a pool is going to take longer than a 5 year old house on a slab foundation with a pool.

The point is Mike's trying to get an idea of how long it takes to do a report, so it helps to say what your report includes to compare apples to apples. Some guys annotate photos like mad men and include 70 photos, some don't annotate at all and include 10.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Dom, you can continue on with all of the imaginary reasons on why houses are soooooo much different you want.

50 year old homes here do not take any time at all as they are pretty much all the same, and much smaller than newer homes.

It is BASIC DATA ENTRY Dom.

Some people type fast, some do not, some have software that easily helps with adding and annotating photos, some do not.

Some realize the value of TEMPLATES and not DUPLICATING work and some may think that there is something special about starting form scratch each time.

It is all apples an oranges Dom.

More than 1 hour for data entry is a loooooong time.

[kpierce]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

More than 1 hour for data entry is a loooooong time.

Yup.