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Walk-Through Consultations

With today’s ridiculously competitive real estate market, many home buyers are forgoing their rights to a home inspection in order to make their purchase offer more attractive. Of course, Structure Tech doesn’t advocate doing this, and most real estate agents don’t like doing this either, but the market is forcing these compromises, in Minnesota and across the country.

Enter the Walk-Through Consultation

To help homebuyers who may choose to forego a home inspection, we offer a Walk-Through Consultation. This is a consultation where we’ll walk through the interior and exterior of a home with a potential home buyer to share our observations, concerns, and insights about the home. Walk-Through Consultations will likely be scheduled last minute, and they’ll be short, no more than a half-hour.

Our clients are expected to take notes, and we strongly encourage them to get a full home inspection if they purchase the home.

Walk-Through Consultation details

Length: 30 minutes. The Walk-Through Consultation takes place with the real estate agent and client present during a showing, which is usually scheduled for 15 to 30 minutes. That’s the maximum amount of time for us to walk through the property, so we’ll be moving quickly.

Report: No report. Our clients take notes, as we will not be producing any type of report.

Tools: A flashlight. Because this is not a home inspection, we will not be bringing a ladder into the home to inspect the attic, removing the electrical panel cover, using a combustion analyzer on the furnace, or any of the other jazz that we do during a home inspection. This would have the potential to make for some upset home sellers. We’re drawing a very clear line in the sand between a walk-through and an inspection.

Timing: We receive requests for these on very short notice, and we do our best to accommodate these requests.

What’s covered: We cover as much of the home as we possibly can during this short window of time. To get a better understanding of what is covered, check out our interior home inspection checklist and exterior home inspection checklist for details. This is the stuff we focus on, but the amount of stuff that we cover is limited by our time there, the size of the home, and the condition of the home. We also cover specific client concerns, within reason and time-permitting.

Price: $200 for the first home, $100 for each subsequent home, provided these showings are scheduled back-to-back and the distance from one house to the next is less than 5 miles.

Coordinated by: Our office and the buyer’s agent. We accompany the real estate agent and the home buyer on the showing, but we do not set up the showing ourselves. We ask the buyer’s agent to notify the seller’s agent that a home inspector will be accompanying them during the showing, but will only be there to walk and talk. As noted, the home inspector will not be performing a home inspection.

What about home inspection standards of practice?

At Structure Tech, we talk a lot about the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Standard of Practice, which we follow with every home inspection. It’s important to make sure your home inspector follows standards such as these when performing a home inspection. A Walk-Through Consultation is not a home inspection, however. It doesn’t look, smell, or taste like a home inspection, which is why it’s not covered by any organization’s home inspection standards of practice. As its name implies, it is simply an on-site consultation by a professional, designed to help answer some of the known unknowns and to shine a light on some of the unknown unknowns.

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Moisture Testing Release Form

  • Moisture Testing Release Form *

    This form must be completed and signed prior to us conducting any moisture testing. We cannot perform the moisture testing requested by the buyers without this form being signed.

    Please call if you have any questions.

    Structure Tech specializes in the moisture testing of buildings for the purpose of determining if there is moisture located behind the exterior wall cladding. A moisture inspection of your property has been requested.

    In order to perform this inspection, we need the permission of the owner. We should have access to all parts of the exterior. Any security systems will need to be shut off during the testing, which can take several hours. We use standard industry practices for conducting the moisture tests, which includes the use of a penetrating probe meter to verify the moisture content of the structural wood and sheathing of the building. 3/16” holes will be placed under most windows and other possible moisture entry areas. These holes will be filled with caulk when the testing is completed.

    We will make every effort to use a caulk that closely matches the color of the surrounding siding; however in some cases the holes may be noticeable upon close inspection. If the holes are of any cosmetic concern the property owner can have them painted with a matching paint.

    I understand the above information and give my permission to test the building located at:

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