You are handing your client to someone for three hours, and whatever that person says is going to shape the next five days of your deal. That is a real thing to take on a recommendation, so here is exactly what you would be getting.
The inspector who walks the house is the one who writes the report, and the one who picks up the phone when your client has a question about it three days later. Nothing gets handed off to an overnight report-writing service, and nobody has to go find out what the inspector meant. Our duty runs to the client who hired us rather than to the deal — worth knowing up front — and it is the same reason the report holds up when the attorney works from it.
Your client’s report writes the repair request for you
Every report we deliver is a web report with a request list builder inside it. Your client — or you, if they would rather you drove it — opens the report, selects the findings worth raising, adds comments and any credit amounts, and exports a clean document to send to the listing agent. No reading sixty pages and retyping items into an addendum at ten at night.
You do not have to take our word for it. Open the sample report, click Create Request List, and build one yourself.
Radon and mold are in-house, and they happen the same day
We are licensed by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for radon measurement, and we place the test during the inspection under the closed-building conditions the protocol requires. Mold sampling is ours as well. We are not a remediation company, so there is nothing for us to sell on the back of a result.
What that means for you is one appointment instead of three, and one schedule to coordinate instead of three. Against a five-business-day inspection window, a separate radon vendor is a second visit to arrange and a second set of results to wait on, and it is usually the piece that runs the clock out.
If your client wants a sewer scope, we can line one up. We do not perform it ourselves — but arranging it is one less call for you.
Reports go out the next business day
Your client has the report the next business day — the web version, the PDF, and the full set of photographs, all in the same link. That timing is deliberate. A report that lands on day four of a five-day window is a report nobody can act on.
The summary separates safety and major items from routine maintenance, which is what makes the attorney’s inspection notice quick to write. Nobody has to hunt through the body of the report for the three things that actually matter.
We don’t call things defects that aren’t
This is the part that quietly costs agents deals. A buyer told on day two that their new house is unsafe often does not recover from it, and a great deal of what sets that off is ordinary.
- Hairline cracks in a foundation or basement wall. Most are ordinary settlement in a building that has been standing for eighty years, not a structural problem. What matters is the pattern, the width, and whether anything is still moving — so that is what we report, instead of a photograph of a crack and the word “consult.”
- Equipment that is old but working. A furnace or water heater past its average life expectancy is not a defect. We tell your client what it is, what condition it is in, and that it is near the end of its service life — which is a different conversation from being told it is broken.
- Older Chicago wiring with no ground at the outlet. In buildings wired in metal conduit, the conduit itself is the grounding path, and it is a legitimate one. It gets miscalled “ungrounded” constantly. What we actually check is whether that path is continuous and properly bonded.
None of that is going easy on a house. What is a defect gets written up as a defect, with photographs and the reasoning behind it — and the reasoning is there precisely so that the calls we do make hold up under pressure. The positioning is accuracy, not leniency. If what you want is an inspector who will soften a report to save a deal, that is not us.
Scheduling around the contract clock
Book it yourself, online, at whatever hour you are actually working. Real availability and the price are both on the screen — pick the date, see the cost, done. No quote request, no waiting on a callback in the morning, no phone tag with a scheduler. Most inspection companies still cannot offer that, and if you have ever tried to line up an inspection at nine at night you already know the difference.
We also hold slots back for agent-driven bookings, because agent work runs on the contract clock and the clock does not wait. Weekends are an option as well. Evenings are not.
If the time you want does not show as open, call or text us instead of working around the calendar. It is a much faster way to find out what can be made to work.
Where we work
Chicago’s north and northwest sides and the north and northwest suburbs, across Cook, Lake, and McHenry counties. Everything listed below is an example of where we already work most weeks — not a limit on where we will go.
In the city, that regularly means Lincoln Park, Lake View, Logan Square, Wicker Park, Roscoe Village, Ravenswood, Lincoln Square, Andersonville, Edgewater, Rogers Park, Jefferson Park, and the West Loop. A good share of that is condominium work. If your client is buying a unit in one of the older two- or three-flats that were carved into condos, what a condo inspection covers is worth a look — the boundary between the unit and the association is where that money actually sits.
In the suburbs, Evanston, Skokie, Niles, Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Glenview, Wilmette, Northbrook, Highland Park, Arlington Heights, Mount Prospect, Palatine, Schaumburg, Buffalo Grove, Libertyville, Mundelein, Vernon Hills, Lake Zurich, and Crystal Lake, among others.
If your client is buying somewhere not listed here, just ask. It takes one text to find out, and the answer is usually yes.
Who you’re working with
Chicago Home Inspect LLC — Illinois Home Inspector Entity License 451.001520, licensed by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for radon measurement, InterNACHI certified, BBB accredited, insured, and family-owned.
Thermal imaging is included on every inspection at no additional charge rather than sold as an upgrade, which matters more than it sounds like it should — it is how moisture behind a finished wall gets found before your client owns it.
Get a direct line
Leave your details and you will get a short note back with a mobile number that reaches the inspector directly rather than an office line — so getting a client scheduled can be one text. We will save your contact at the same time, so when you do text there is none of the “who is this” business. No newsletter, nothing sold to anyone, and nothing expected in return.
Or skip all of it. If you have a client under contract right now, book the inspection — that is the fastest route, and you do not need to sign up first. If you would rather talk it through, call (872) 275-4474.