• Home

Selecting Home Inspection Software – Common Features

Being a professional home inspector, one of the important tasks he or she needs to perform is generating a high quality home inspection report. In order to provide the best services to the clients, it is indeed necessary for the inspectors to use reliable home inspection software. You may find many types of software in the market with different prices. If you are new in this line, here are some useful guidelines for you to select the RIGHT software to perform your task.

Let’s see what common features the reliable software should have. A good software is able to:

• Provide the users with a user friendly template which is suitable for every type of inspection. For instance, there is a standard template for both residential home inspection as well as commercial inspection.
• Enable the users to prepare the standard reports which include table of content, report summary, organized page breaks, colored borders, etc.
• Allow the users to upload the inspection reports and email a link to the report in one simple step.
• Allow the users to add and edit a large amount of photographs easily and fast.
• Enable the users to upload their inspection reports for real estate agents, home owners and home buyers to view for the duration of up to 5 years.  
• Enable the users to perform spell check after they have completed their reports.

It is indeed important for the new home inspectors to have a better idea about all these useful features before you dump in your money to purchase the required software.