Congratulations to our Top 10 Realtors for 2024!

Happy New Year from Forever Home Inspection!

We are so blessed to have worked with hundreds of clients in 2024. We aim to equip our clients with valuable information by providing second-to-none home inspection reports, and these clients often come to us through a realtor during a home-buying process. We were blessed with the opportunity to work with numerous great realtors throughout 2024, and we are extra thankful for these men and women who chose to recommend us to their clients repeatedly.

Join us in saying a big “Congratulations” to our top 10 rockstar realtors! If you are looking for someone to help you buy a home, we can’t recommend the following realtors enough.

  1. Ashley Dailey

  2. Dalia Espinoza

  3. Lauren Hurd

  4. Hannah McCollough

  5. Ruben Hunter

  6. Tasha Bates

  7. Lisa Goulet

  8. Luke Flanagan

  9. Clint Shaw

  10. Amanda Thompson

Realtors, thank you for your partnership in 2024. We look forward to providing exceptional home inspection services to your clients in 2025!

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10 Best Business Practices for Home Inspectors

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Discover the top 10 essential business practices every home inspector needs to follow to boost client satisfaction, minimize risk, and build a thriving inspection business. From advanced technology to clear communication, this guide has you covered!

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10 FAQs about Home Inspection Reports

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A home inspection report is created by a home inspector either during or after conducting a home inspection. The report identifies any visible defects, provides detailed explanations, and often recommends industry professionals for further assessment or advice for the homebuyer.

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Quality Heating, Cooling, and Plumbing: Tulsans Caring for Tulsans

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They can provide service like a large company, but personal-touch service like a small company—with a born and bred local at the helm. They work to ease family minds with frequent updates about everything from project progress to location tracking, so families know right when to anticipate a service team’s arrival at their home.

How to Prevent, Test, and Treat Mold in Your Home

Some families may feel that mold testing is the best first step for them. If you feel unsure about whether your home has been infected with mold, it is appropriate for home ownership hygiene to periodically call for a home mold test. You may be lucky enough to catch a small issue before it becomes a full-blown mold epidemic.

If you fall under the category of a family who just wants to ensure air quality is in tip-top shape in the home as a preventative measure or who is not certain if any mold outbreak is quietly happening under your noses, a home mold test is an excellent step to take.

Other families may recognize that mold mitigation is the appropriate measure to protect their family’s health and prevent mold. For still others, there may be conditions within the home that are ripe for breeding mold spores in the future, or mold spread may have already occurred, and finding a specialist in mold remediation is of paramount importance.

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For Sale By Owner - Perks and Pitfalls

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If you are selling a house, and choose to do so without a real estate agent, then you’ll be doing a FSBO- “for sale by owner.” Your house is most likely the most expensive thing you have, and your most valuable (and complex) physical asset. When it comes to selling, is it a good idea to sidestep professional help and do it yourself? Every home seller is faced with the same questions, “should I hire a Realtor™, or should I sell my home myself?”

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10 Reasons Why Every Homebuyer Should Order a Lateral Sewer Line Inspection (Sewer Scope)

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Homebuyers often neglect to have the lateral sewer line inspected during the home inspection process. A general home inspection doesn’t go below the surface, so adding a sewer line inspection can reveal quite a lot more about the property. Here are 10 reasons why every home buyer should order a lateral line sewer inspection on inspection day.

How Location Plays into the Home Inspection

When preparing to do a home inspection, buyers should be aware of how location plays a role. Primarily, location affects the price of a home inspection and what the inspector looks at. It’s good to be thoughtful about your house’s location because it helps you prepare for the home inspection and helps you ask better questions during it.

Properly Maintain your Fireplace and Chimney - 3 Reasons Why

Whether or not your chimney is in need of a fix, there are things you should be doing to make sure your chimney and fireplace are in excellent shape all year-round, so when the season turns colder you’re always ready for a hearty fire! The most important maintenance step you can take is to have your chimney swept professionally once a year.

Why You Should Always Turn on Bathroom and Kitchen Vents

The bathroom and the kitchen. Maybe the two most used rooms in a house, the two rooms with some of the most complex equipment, and the two rooms that can often cause the most trouble. As home inspectors, we often see the kitchen and bathroom as the places where plumbing issues, electrical problems, and DIY-gone-wrong installments are. But there are many common-sense ways you can take care of your kitchen and bathroom so they continue to function properly and be safe places. Today, we’re going to look at just one simple but very important thing you can do: use your exhaust vents!

Homes Near Tulsa's Gathering Place are Increasing in Value

Forever Home Inspection began and continues to be headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Even as we expand across Oklahoma and Iowa, Tulsa is still close to our heart. As we’ve watched the city grow in the past few years, one of the most exciting developments has been the creation of the Gathering Place, a 66-acre city park (100 acres when fully finished) alongside the bank of the Arkansas River.

Even in 2016, when the park was still only under construction, prices in houses among Brookside (a neighborhood near the park) were surging, the area already anticipating the opportunities the park would bring. In 2018, two months before the Gathering Place opened, News Channel 8 reported that house prices in midtown near the park had increased 18 to 20 percent in the past three years. The construction of the Gathering Place brought along other improvements to the neighborhoods, including repaved roads, new sidewalks, and new landscaping alongside the street and river. Along with the already robust Brookside and Midtown scene, with restaurants, boutiques, walkability, and a Trader Joe’s, the Gathering Place offers an even more family-friendly addition to the area.

Should I Avoid a Neighborhood With an HOA?

When you prepare to buy a house, you must also consider whether or not you want to be apart of a neighborhood with a homeowners association (HOA). As of 2018, there were an estimated “347,000 community associations in the U.S. and 26% of the population resided in areas where there were community associations” (“Homeowner Association (HOA)”). HOAs differ by neighborhood, meaning there’s no way to fully judge whether your prospective HOA will fit the following stereotypes. But, it’s worth considering the general pros and cons:

What Home Inspectors Look For in a Kitchen

During a home inspection, a home inspector will go through every area of a property to do a visual inspection. One place they’ll spend a good amount of time is the place we often think of as “the heart of the home”: the kitchen. The kitchen is where you’ll spend a majority of your time and a crucial (and complex) part of any house, so a thorough inspection is invaluable. So what should you expect for an inspection of the kitchen?

How to Research a Neighborhood Before Purchasing a Home

A neighborhood is just as, if not more, important to consider when buying a home than the house itself. After all, homes can be renovated and are under your control. Neighbors and neighborhoods are not. Therefore it’s critical to take location seriously. After you’ve done the basic research on a neighborhood, such as seeing its proximity to the important places in your life (schools, work, family, places of worship, stores, parks, favorite restaurants, etc.) it’s time to do a deeper dive. Here are 4 tips on how to research a neighborhood before purchasing a home.

Why You Should Always Read A Home Inspection Agreement

Before getting a home inspection, the client must look over and sign off on a home inspection agreement. What is a home inspection agreement? Why is it important, and why should you be sure to read it? Especially if this is your first home inspection, or you’re using a new home inspector, the agreement is key to you understanding what you are getting when you get a home inspection. There are many misconceptions about a home inspection. It’s not an appraisal. It’s not required by law, but it is incredibly valuable. A home inspector won’t go busting down doors or breaking up walls to inspect. A home inspection is a visual, non-invasive examination of a home. Inspectors won’t go anywhere that doesn’t have an access point. They also can’t give you specialized advice. Instead, they can identify areas that need further professional attention. A home inspection can tell you a lot, but they can’t predict every issue a house may have, nor can they be held liable for what they find or don’t find.

Should My Home Inspector Have a Copy of the Property Disclosure?

Why should my home inspector have a copy of my property disclosure? To recap: a property disclosure is a statement given by the seller of a house to the potential buyer after the buyer has made an offer. The property disclosure, which has specific state and county requirements, is filled out by the seller, who must disclose everything they know about the house. This informs the buyer of potential hazards and issues with the property, along with its history, so the buyer can be better informed.

 
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Tulsa’s Highly Qualified Home Inspection Team

Our Lead Inspector and owner, Lance Coffman is a Certified Master Inspector; while every home inspector on our team holds certification and membership with the most elite home inspector training program in the United States and is in good standing with the Construction Industries Board. We have built strong reputations with real estate professionals and clients by focusing on education and empowerment throughout the inspection process.

We serve every client and fellow professional with love and integrity, no matter what! Our ambition is to leave the real estate industry better than we found it.

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CMIs must have completed 1,000 fee-paid inspections and/or hours of education (combined); have been in the inspection business for at least three years; agree to abide by the inspection industry’s toughest Code of Ethics; and agree to periodic criminal background checks.

 

  • A Buyer Home Inspection reports on the overall status of your future home and its possible defects. We will deliver a detailed and easy-to-decipher report to the home buyer before noon the following business day.

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  • A sewer scope inspection is a camera-led scoping of the lateral sewer line only. The scope will begin at the house and navigate via a long cable line to the end of the lateral sewer line. A sewer scope inspection does NOT include scoping of all of the plumbing throughout the home.

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  • We will inspect for termites and other wood destroying insects, but we do not provide a plan of treatment or treatment, itself. Our goal is to provide a convenient and unbiased termite inspection.

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  • An inspection of the floor supply vents with a camera-led scope, a video recording of the findings, plus a report of the findings.

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  • We refer commercial building inspections to Focus Building Inspections.

 

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