In my lifetime I have purchased four houses, and I can say with unfiltered clarity and certainty…read morethat the inspection by Inspecticore Inc. on August 21, 2026 was the worst one ever.
To start, Inspecticore charged a whopping $1,209 for the inspection -- 72% more than the next highest quote of $700 that I had received for the same job. We went with Inspecticore because we were in a time crunch, they came highly recommended by our realtor, and the home inspector that I had used in the past had retired. Although the price tag is eye-watering, it is not the reason for the negative review, since I am okay with paying more money for superior service or knowledge. And that is where Inspecticore failed miserably.
The home inspector from Inspecticore spent more time telling us what wasn't covered for our $1,209 fee than what was. Any time I asked the inspector if he was going to look at something, the answer inevitably was, "oh, that's not within the scope of the inspection." The items outside of the scope of our $1,209 home inspection included: (1) the in-ground sprinkler system; (2) appliances such as the washing machine and the wine refrigerator; (3) termite / wood-destroying insects; (4) the attic or anything in it.
As stated earlier, in the home inspections of the three other homes that I have purchased in my life, all included these items and all cost far less.
In this particular case, the wine refrigerator was inoperative. Even worse, on the night that we moved into the house, we ran a cleaning cycle through the clothes washing machine to clean the tub. When we returned to check on it, we found the laundry room flooded. We spent the next hour cleaning up the water in the laundry room instead of eating dinner. The next day we went shopping for a new washing machine. Just the thing you don't want to do in the first 24 hours of home ownership.
We had such low confidence in Inspecticore that we began checking things ourselves. Again, not something I expected with a $1,209 price tag.
The in-ground sprinkler system is one of the easiest things to check and I have never seen a home inspector other than Inspecticore say that it is outside of the scope of the inspection. We checked it ourselves and thankfully it was in good working order. But I didn't pay a 72% premium to check things myself.
Similarly, based on my experience with prior home inspections, the inspector may not be an expert in wood-destroying insects, but in the past they have always identified in their report whether or not there appears to be evidence of wood-destroying insects. Not Inspecticore. With them, it's simply outside of the scope, so if you want to know, you can go spend more money.
Their inspection report is very pretty, so if you like paying more money for things that are pretty but lack substance, you can throw your hard-earned money at them and they will happily take it, probably while telling you, "oh, no, that's outside the scope."
This company is in business not because they are good, but because they have over-charged enough schmucks (of which I am now one) to cover their overhead. Don't be a schmuck like me. Just stay away.
In closing, I should note that when the company called me for a customer satisfaction survey and I told them about my experience, all they could say was "I'm sorry". Not, "let us do something to make it right" or "how can we fix this". Just "I'm sorry", which I found out is not accepted as currency at P.C. Richards when buying a new washing machine.
