In the earlier days before vendors and lead brokers began creating the illusion for need of their gimmicks and services, a home inspector provided one essential service - a complete, accurate, and unbiased written description of a structure and its systems as observed on the day of his inspection.
Now that I am an end user of home inspection reports as I assist policyholders in proving their insurance claims, I am finding them to be less descriptive and more ambiguous. Almost every description is tentative and dependent upon a third party’s re-evaluation. In other words, as a tool for proving the condition of the structure at the time it was purchased, many of these reports are absolutely worthless.
Thus, I would recommend that a new home inspector develop the one and only skill and product that produces results for his client before considering anything else — a complete, accurate, unbiased written description of a structure and its systems as observed on the day of his inspection. Your client will appreciate and benefit by it for years. Everything else is fluff.