About Us
My Promise To You
Choosing the right home inspector can be difficult. Unlike most professionals, you probably won't get to meet me until after you hire me. Furthermore, different inspectors have varying qualifications, equipment, experience, reporting methods, and yes, different pricing. Ultimately, a thorough inspection depends heavily on the individual inspector's own effort. If you honor me by permitting me to inspect your new home, I guarantee that I will give you my very best effort. This I promise you.
Locally owned and operated, CAPITOL HOME INSPECTIONS is located in the beautiful CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS.
Professionally
Insured (Errors and Omissions)FOR YOUR PROTECTION
I carry professional insurance in the form of Errors and Omissions (E&O) and General Liability (GL). Professional insurance equals professional accountability.
Personal Consultations and Continuing Customer Support
At the conclusion of your inspection, I will provide you with consultation outlining aspects of conditions and findings. You will have an opportunity to ask questions before you make a final decision. I continue my customer support by offering unlimited follow-up phone consultations - if you have any questions after the completion of the inspection, I am here to answer them.
Computer Generated Reporting System Exceeding All Current Standards
Professional Real Estate Inspection Associations, such as InterNACHI, have set high quality industry standards for ethics, standards of practice and inspection reporting to help maintain professional integrity. I am committed to surpass all minimum requirements.
Graduate of Professional Home Inspection Institute (PHII)
Established in 1987 as one of America's premier inspection training facility, PHII is considered by the industry to be one of the top ranking Inspection Training Facility in the Nation.
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A Member in Good Standing with International Association of Certified Home Inspectors(InterNACHI)
The International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, is the world’s largest inspection trade association. Based in the United States, InterNACHI is both non-profit and federally tax-exempt, and operates in 65 different countries and nine languages. InterNACHI is the inspection industry’s largest provider of education and training.
Licensing of home inspectors only sets a minimumstandard. Much like being up to code,any less would be illegal. Under this low bar, imaginary people, children, psychics (who claim to "sense" if a house is OK), pets, and even the blind can be home inspectors. Other home inspection associations have no entrance requirements and, worse, encourage their associatesto go out and perform actual inspections for poor, unsuspecting consumers as the only way to achieve full membership. InterNACHI finds this practice unconscionable. We turn down more than 60% of the inspectors who want to join InterNACHI because they can't pass our Inspectors Exam, and we turn down 90% of those left because they can't or will not fulfill our membership requirements.
InterNACHI's Code of Ethics
http://www.nachi.org/code_of_ethics.htm
InterNACHI's Standards of Practice
A Member in Good Standing with National Society of Home Inspectors (NSHI)
The National Society of Home Inspectors, Inc. (NSHI) was established through a grass roots effort by a small group of individuals who wanted to promote professionalism among the thousands of experienced and developing home inspectors who engage in the profession each year. With a rapidly growing membership, NSHI chose to incorporate as a nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization in 2005. NSHI currently has over 600 members throughout the United States and Canada. NSHI was formed in part due to concerns over the agendas of home inspector organizations, some of which operate for profit, and the growing number of inspectors who begin performing inspections without the proper level of skill or education. NSHI is the only nonprofit national association that requires its members to have a minimum of 90 hours of accredited* home inspection education (or equivalent experience) and pass a national certification test (the NSHI Exam) in order to apply for membership.