Launch, Grow and Make Money!: Become a Home Inspector - Paperback

by Kirk Bingenheimer (Author)

Before I started my home inspection business I was a professor at Clemson University and then worked in the production home building industry for the next fifteen years. In 2009, during the housing downturn, I launched a home inspection service in the Charleston, South Carolina market.Two weeks before I launched my business my CPA asked me how I was going to obtain new clients. To be honest I had no good answer for her. It was at that very moment that my journey to obtain paying customers began. I felt confident about my ability to perform home inspections. However, I did not have any idea what it would take to market and operate a professional home inspection service.After a lot of hard work and many lessons learned my company was performing more than 400 inspections annually in our third year of business. With a solid business model now in place I am ready to share my secrets of effective home inspection marketing and operational systems. In this book you will learn what it takes to be a successful home inspector. The first section is an overview of what to consider before you start your business. Part two is about what you need to do to launch your new home inspection business. Part three is an overview of the strategies it takes to grow your inspection business. The last section talks about the systems you need to make money inspecting homes.

Author Biography

After receiving his Bachelor's degree from Michigan State University, Kirk Bingenheimer started his career in residential construction working on a custom home builder's framing crew. A year later he enrolled in the Building Science and Management program at Clemson University where he later earned his Master's degree. Kirk was a Professor in the Construction Science and Management program at Clemson University in the early 1990's. He became a licensed residential builder in 1994 and spent the next 15 years in pre-construction management positions with some regional and national home builders. During the housing downturn Kirk launched a new home inspection service in the Charleston, South Carolina market. By end of the third year in business his company was inspecting more than 400 inspections annually. Kirk learned the hard way how to launch, grow and make money inspecting residential properties and enjoys helping other eager entrepreneurs do the same.