Choosing the Wrong Home Inspector Jeopardizes Your Closing
How Choosing the Wrong Home Inspector Jeopardizes Your Closing
A home inspector MUST inspect certain things. They CAN inspect a lot more. Not knowing the difference is how a routine inspection becomes the reason your deal died.
The Texas Administrative Code spells out exactly what a home inspector is required to inspect. Almost nobody in the transaction has read it. After this hour, you will have.
Every inspection you order runs on rules most agents have never seen: what an inspector MUST examine, versus what they could, should, or might. That gap decides whether a report is thorough, thin, or trouble -- and which inspector is right for which property.
In the TREA tradition, this course takes the statutes of the Texas Administrative Code and teaches them in clear, concise, plain English, so you can put the knowledge to work on your next transaction instead of filing it away.
Pick inspectors with your eyes open. Save the closing before it needs saving.
MUST versus CAN, in plain English
What inspectors MUST inspect
The required scope under the Texas Administrative Code -- the floor every licensed inspection has to meet.
What they CAN inspect
The could, should, and might territory -- optional scope that varies by inspector and changes what your client actually gets.
Choosing the right inspector
How the MUST-vs-CAN difference tells you which inspector fits which property -- and which choice quietly endangers a closing.
Using it in a live deal
Reading reports through the Code's lens, setting client expectations, and heading off the surprises that stall closings.
Built for people with closings tomorrow
Fast
One hour, one sitting, and your credit posts to TREC in about 3 seconds -- even at 11pm the night your license expires.
Simple
No apps. No plugins. No mystery. Phone, tablet, or laptop -- the course saves your place.
No risk
"I think my CE is the best you can get. If you don't agree, I'll refund your money." -- David Offutt, Founder. You keep every CE hour you earned.
Proven
About 9,000 Texas license holders trained since 2014. TREC CE Provider #10010-CEP. Real instructors in a real studio.
Taught by David Offutt
David Offutt
TREC CE Provider #10010-CEP and holder of TREC Instructor #1597 -- issued directly by TREC on subject-matter equivalence before that pathway closed in 2019. Translating administrative code into usable English is the TREA house specialty.
Quick answers
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Know the Code. Pick the right inspector.
MUST vs CAN in one plain-English hour. Posted to TREC in about 3 seconds.
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