Home Inspection Help from a Home Inspector

[Ryan Bono]

Hello!

I want to write a forum post helping new investors. I feel the BP lacks the education on the home inspection process and as a home inspector, I want to help. I put in offers and got home inspections prior to being a home inspector and I felt so lost and overwhelmed as probably a lot of you did/still do. As a result, I quit my 9 to 5 in construction project management and became a full time Home Inspector and it has changed my life in so many positive ways. Please help me help the community:

The two effective ways I feel I can help are to educate/guide people on the following:

(1) Walk through a home and give investors simple things to understand/differentiate when a home in disrepair (or not) needs a basic renovations versus a full scale gut renovation with structural work/full re-pipe/re-wire etc. I have a lot of good ideas on this one but I would entertain your thoughts/comments. 

(2) The second one I am struggling with...How can a new investor can read a home inspection report and know when a comment/issue is a big deal, requiring serious skills/capital to fix versus just a DIY and a few hundred dollars to correct.

Any experienced investors have any tips when they felt overwhelmed reading a home inspection report as a newbie? Any newbies have current/past reports that they are still trying to wrap their heads around, what is tripping you up? 

Thank You!

-Ryan Bono