Home Inspection Blog

There is something incredibly satisfying about walking into a freshly renovated house. New floors. Fresh paint. Modern kitchen. Updated bathrooms. Brand-new appliances that still have the stickers on them. Everything smells new. Everything looks clean. And somewhere in the distance, a gray vinyl plank floor is being installed in another house. As a home inspector, I've inspected plenty of renovated and flipped homes throughout Illinois. And I want to make something clear befo

Being a home inspector in the Midwest means Mother Nature is basically your co-worker. And she has a strange sense of humor. One week it's 95 degrees with enough humidity to swim through the air. The next week Canadian wildfire smoke has the sky looking like Mars. Then comes a thunderstorm that dumps an inch of rain in twenty minutes. Fast forward a few months...

People often assume home inspectors spend their days looking at roofs, furnaces, and electrical panels. And they're right. Mostly. But what many people don't realize is that every house tells a story. Sometimes those stories are funny. Sometimes they're bizarre. Sometimes they're downright unbelievable. And occasionally... They're surprisingly emotional. After hundreds of inspections throughout Illinois, I've seen a little bit of everything. Here are ten of the strangest thin