As part of the process of selling our house, we dug through a box of old files we’ve kept over the years – manuals for appliances, receipts for things we’ve bought for the house, and the original home inspection report we got for our house in 2004.
One of the things that stood out having done this in 2004 and again in 2019 is how much technology has influenced the process – in 2004, our home inspector showed up with a thick pre-printed binder and he went through filling out sections in provided spaces as he worked through electrical, plumbing, etc.
In 2019, our home inspector showed up with a laptop, a portable colour printer, and a digital camera. (I think) he used a web site that is made specifically for home inspectors to create a thin but insightful custom binder filled with as some prepared information but also had unlimited room for custom comments. He also inserted annotated photos of some of the things he found *and* after the inspection, he sent us a link to a web site where we could walk through these issues individually and sort of rank them “Deal with Immediately”, “Not Urgent” or whatever then create a custom report online and/or in print that we could use.
