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Inspector Toolbelt Talk — 198 episodes

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"All The Legal Stuff" With Joe Ferry, The Home Inspection Lawyer

2

Value Over Price

3

Are People Getting Harder to Deal With?

4

Higher Level AI For Home Inspectors

5

Manage Expectations

6

Liability Layers For Home Inspectors

7

Q2 - 2026 Home Inspection Market Outlook

8

Growing Pains

9

Quick Tip: Control the Situation

10

The Commercial Mindset

11

A Thousand Little Things Build an Inspection Business

12

The Human Element

13

Questions with Answers

14

Should You Add Solar Inspections?

15

Things Are Moving Fast

16

2026 | Q1 Home Inspection Market Outlook

17

Ubiquity is King

18

Continuing Education - The Ultimate Marketing Engine

19

How To Explode into 2026

20

Avoid Slow Season Pitfalls

21

How Home Inspectors Add Lucrative Verticals

22

Should You Do Home Inspections for Tenants?

23

Q4 Home Inspection Market Outlook - 2025

24

5 Books Every Inspector Should Read

25

The Transition To Commercial Inspections - Harder Than it Looks

26

Using Hand Signals Instead of Annotations

27

Remembering Your Why

28

How To Get AI To Notice Your Business

29

The Golden Age of Commercial Inspections

30

Why "Home Inspector Near Me" Are Not Good Keywords

31

AI & The Future of Home Inspections

32

AI Call Answering/Chat Services For Home Inspectors

33

Should Your Clients Tag Along on the Home Inspection?

34

Q3 2025 Home Inspection Market Outlook

35

Utilizing Neutral Language in Home Inspection Reports

36

Charge More - Deliver More

37

Push Past the Usual Marketing

38

203K Consulting For Home Inspectors

39

Stuff That's In My Inspection Agreements

40

Don't Put All Your Eggs in the GLSA Basket

41

Why Recessions Are Good for Home Inspectors

42

Using the Word "Further" In Reports

43

Optimizing Home Inspection Reports

44

Creating a Better Customer Experience

45

My Favorite Report Disclaimers

46

Diversify To Grow your Business

47

How To Construct a Narrative

48

Q2 2025 Home Inspection Market Outlook

49

Building a Great Inspection Template

50

Using Ratings In our Inspection Reports

51

Setting Boundaries in Your Home Inspection Business

52

Using Past Tense In Home Inspection Reports

53

How To Grow Your Home Inspection Business

54

Q1 2025 HOME INSPECTION MARKET OUTLOOK

55

How To Optimize Search for ChatGPT & AI

56

Grouping Defects Together in Reports

57

Principles of Influence & Sales

58

Play To Your Weaknesses

59

2025 Home Inspection industry Predictions

60

Slow Season Strategy Fails

61

Don't Overcomplicate It

62

How The Increase Your Close Rate

63

Should You Have A Return Visit Fee?

64

Pareto Distribution in Home Inspections

65

Q4 Home Inspection market Outlook - 2024

66

HOW TO CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OF VALUE

67

How To Beat Burnout in the Home Inspection Industry

68

Direct-to-Consumer Marketing for Home Inspectors

69

Home Inspection News - 2024

70

Confident Pricing

71

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

72

Mastering the Driveway Speech - With George Karampoulis

73

The Client Perspective

74

Strategic Goal-Setting for Home Inspection Success

75

Good Business is Good Business - With Randy Lima

76

Social Media Success - With Inspector AJ

77

Are Mandatory Home Inspections a Good Thing?

78

Relationship Marketing for Home Inspectors

79

Group Psychosis in the Home Inspection Industry

80

Vets & Public Servants as Home Inspectors

81

Vanity Numbers vs Real Numbers

82

Drinking With Jay - Dealing With "People Burnout"

83

The Q2 - 2024 Home Inspection Market Outlook

84

Mastering Growth and Profit in Home Inspection: A Talk with Nick Gromicko

85

Dealing With Difficult People in Home Inspections

86

What The NAR Settlement Means For Home Inspectors

87

Boutique, Branding, & Success

88

Home Inspection News - Spring 2024

89

Get Past "The Stall"

90

How To Bid Commercial Inspections

91

What's Changing In Our Industry

92

How To Become a Successful Commercial Inspector

93

How To Hire Inspectors

94

Social Media Trends for 2024

95

How To Be Successful As a Solo Inspector

96

Breaking Into Commercial Inspections - With Dillon Winiecki

97

2024 Home Inspection Market Outlook

98

Crafting a Compelling Marketing Message

99

Leveraging YouTube Shorts For Home Inspection Marketing

100

Fighting To Win - Don't Roll Over for Legal Issues

101

Direct-to-Consumer Marketing for Home Inspectors

102

NAR Lost - Now What?

103

Inspection Reports - Mastering Efficiency and Effectiveness

104

ReportHost vs Spectora. How Does It Impact Our Industry?

105

Becoming a Captivating Speaker

106

Will Two National Lawsuits Get Rid of Buyer Agents Forever?

107

Mastering the Art of Dealing with Know-It-Alls: A Guide for Home Inspectors

108

Training Your Market, Agents, & Clients

109

Take Back Our Industry

110

Protecting Your Most Valuable Asset

111

A New Inspection Type - Changing The Industry

112

Growing Your Inspection Business Through Referral Groups

113

Charge More, Be More - With Juan Jimenez

114

Expert Witness Testimony: A Guide for Home Inspectors

115

Expanding Horizons: Diversifying Your Home Inspection Business

116

Are You Ready to Go Multi-Inspector? | Navigating Challenges, Boosting Profitability and Exploring Ancillary Inspections

117

Q3 2023 – Home Inspection Market Outlook

118

A Review Of Reviews

119

Striking the Balance

120

Lessons Learned - The Ups & Downs of Inspecting

121

Where is the Inspection Industry Headed?

122

Team vs. Solo: The Pros and Cons of Team Inspections

123

Home Inspection News

124

The "Windshield Perspective"

125

Marketing For Introverts

126

How To Become a Successful Female Home Inspector

127

Q2 Home Inspection Market Outlook - 2023

128

How To Upsell Services

129

The Social Media "Secret Sauce"

130

Is Our Industry Consolidating?

131

The Client-First Mentality

132

Google Guarantee Program/GLS - Jason Bowings

133

Drinking With Jay - Teaching and Mentoring Other Inspectors

134

Psychology For Inspectors part 2/2

135

Psychology For Inspectors part 1/2

136

Behind The Scenes with Google Ads

137

Growing & Marketing Your Inspection Business With Kevin Maxwell

138

How to Properly Visit Open Houses

139

Home Inspection Facebook Group Etiquette

140

Hiring a Virtual Assistant for Home Inspectors with Greg Brooks

141

SPECIAL EPISODE! A Big Market Change is Coming

142

Can Field Inspections Help You Through the Downturn?

143

Real Numbers to Run Your Business By

144

Q1 Home Inspection Market Outlook - 2023

145

Home Inspection News With Ian & David

146

Don't Give Up

147

End of Year Tax Tips With Tom Kubiak

148

Business and Sales for New Home Inspectors

149

This Is The Time To Grab Market Share

150

Marketing Pre-Listing Inspections with Dave Klima

151

Market Through It - With Mike Crow

152

Should You Have a Cancellation Fee - Drinking With Jay

153

A Success Story - What Works & What Doesn't - Mike Ortiz

154

Q4 2022 - Home Inspection Market Outlook

155

How Inspectors Can Mitigate Risk

156

How to Properly Visit Real Estate Offices

157

How to Make Your Clients Feel Seen and Heard

158

Changes in the Inspection Industry - Good or Bad? With Christian Adams of Repair Pricer

159

What Is The Future Of The Home Inspection Industry

160

Rising to Meet the New Customer Journey - With Aaron Ziomek from ACC

161

Dress to Impress

162

Confessions of a High Profile Salesman

163

State of the App July 2022

164

Change Your Mindset to Grow Your Business - With Istvan Zsako

165

Firing Clients and Blacklisting Agents - With Jay Wynn

166

Business Structure, Taxes, & Paying Inspectors - With Tom Kubiak

167

Mid-2022 Home Inspection Market Outlook

168

Part 2 - Q&A With Nick Gromicko, the Founder of InterNACHI

169

Part 1 - Q&A With Nick Gromicko, the Founder of InterNACHI

170

How to Manage Client Expectations

171

Social Media Strategy For Inspectors - With Inspector Media

172

Home Inspection Marketing Ideas

173

What Does InterNACHI Plan To Do About The “Takeover of Our Industry" with Nick Gromicko

174

Is InterNACHI Worth It? With Ben Gromicko

175

Should You Hire a Home Inspector Call Center? - with Paula Pinnix of ACC

176

How to Increase Your Per-Inspection Revenue - Dave Klima

177

Inspectors Eat Well When They Charge Enough - James Gonte

178

How to Deal With Client Complaints

179

How To Beat Inspector Burnout

180

Fuel Prices & Interest Rates - What They Mean for Us

181

The Ancillary Service Every Home Inspector Should Offer - With Harold Van Dyk

182

Home Inspection Agreements With Isaac Peck

183

Home Inspector Safety with Bob Madewell

184

The "State of the App Address"

185

How To Be a Better Communicator

186

Barry Cohen - The Creator of Homeinspectology.com

187

How To Make a Home Inspection Blog Easy

188

Joe Ferry - The Home Inspector Lawyer!

189

How to Make Your Own Home Inspection Website

190

Accepting Bitcoin as a Home Inspector

191

2022 Home Inspection Market Outlook

192

Why Branding is Important For Home Inspectors

193

Grow Your Business Without Hiring Other Inspectors

194

Home Inspector Marketing with Dave Klima

195

You Aren't Charging Enough!

196

Scot Baker on Crawlers for Inspectors

197

Fractional Marketing Strategies for Inspectors

198

Who are we? What is this?