I tell them rent for a short time when they move here and then we can start shopping for them.

I am no longer buying single family, but absolutely love multi-family real estate and love talking shop.... both one on one and through my podcast on I tunes called Lifetime Cash Flow.

Shop around.

It is the one-stop shop.

And our interest is in merely trying to quantify and qualify the home for you.If you have the home inspection in hand it's a spec sheet that you can shop around and get bids on, use to intimidate  Negotiate with the seller, offer to rehabbers (as a wholesaler) all without exposing you to any more liability, or stress, or awkward situations outside of the normal real estate purchasing process.And finally to address your last point, I know a couple Home Inspectors, and they do their own flips, also most come from a construction/architecture background so to say they don't know as much as a contractor is silly.  

Just shop around.

The American made is a bonus.

They will come out and measure, then make the new window at their shop, then come out and remove your window and install new one.

For example, if I as an SDI owner, opened up a coffee shop next to Starbucks, I could provide the same qulaity of product and service at a lower cost because I would be tax exempt.

I've been involved in several hi-tech start ups here in the Bay Area and have friends who are VC's and Angel investors, and majority have set up shop in the states I mentioned for the reasons above.