Jay TeamProperty Management
The journal

April 22, 2023

The inspection that is not a surprise

A walk-through is how we notice what a resident has stopped noticing. How we do it without being a bother.

Townhomes beside a small lake and trees in late afternoon.

Houses tell you things if you stand in them. A stain that was not there, a filter that has not been changed, a deck board that will go in the next freeze. Residents live with slow change. We are supposed to see it.

Notice, then a visit

We do not appear unannounced. We write, we offer times, we keep the visit short. The point is the house, not a performance of thoroughness.

What we write down

What we saw, what can wait, what should not. You get the note. If something needs a vendor, you hear that in the same letter, not as a later surprise.

Between visits

The best inspection is the one that finds little. That only happens if the months in between were not ignored.