How much does a home inspection in Louisville cost?

What does a home inspection in Louisville KY cost? The difference between a great and an average home inspector is staggering.  You have new guys who don’t know what they are doing, old guys who don’t do enough for you, and volume guys who don’t take enough time.  

Are you comparing apples to apples when it comes to your home inspector search?

Here’s the deal- every licensed home inspector in Kentucky is required to do certain things when inspecting a house. This is known as our SOP (standards of practice).

What you may be surprised to find out is that the law (SOP) does not require that any inspector has to do the things that really matter.  Things like walking on roofs to look at shingles, going into crawl spaces, and venturing into attics are all optional and up to the individual inspector.  If fact, there are a lot of home inspectors that use the SOP as a shield to help them NOT do anything of the things that matter.

The home inspector you hire may not actually get a ladder out, much less walk on the roof, or look in the attic. It’s a sad fact but many inspectors don’t do a good job.  This is only one of many things that separate the good from the bad. My Instagram account is full of pictures of problems that I uncover by going beyond the minimum standards. InspectorBen on Instagram.

Like everything in life, not all home inspections are created equal.

This also rings true for the price of a home inspection. The cost can range from $400.00 up to $1,000(s).  The large gap in price is a direct reflection of the time spent on your home inspection, and the quality you will receive.

There are many articles floating around the internet with ‘national average’ for home inspection cost. Most are using out of date data to give folks the wrong idea. Louisville, KY is packed with big, old, homes throughout old Louisville.

Those types of homes can take all day, sometimes even longer to properly inspect.

Home Inspection Reports

Another great way to weed out the bad home inspectors is by their reports.  The inspection report is the key part of all of this.  My reports are long, detailed, and packed with pictures & notes to help you in repair requests and negotiations.  

An average report of mine takes nearly 8 hours to complete (not counting the time spent at the house).  The cheap home inspectors do not come close to the quality of the deliverable product.  

Some even scribble jibberish on carbon sheets in front of you and call that a report.

But what if I can’t afford the best?  Nonsense.  Where will you find all the extra money once you move in and problems start occurring?   The thing to remember is my inspections  DO NOT cost you money, they save you money. Lots of it.

You can see a couple of examples of my reports below.  Look them over. Compare them to the other guys.  It only takes but a few minutes to realize who is the real deal.   Who do you really want protecting you?