Products
Home Inspection Report Software
The generation of a
computerized Home Inspection report can greatly improve the
professional service that a Home Inspector provides each and
every customer. It also is the first line of defense when a
problem is discovered and someone questions the Home Inspector
and Inspection Report. Computers can be very powerful tools if
used to their potential and very frustrating if problems exceed
our limited computer skills.
A Closer Look Inspection Service (ACL) has been performing home
inspections in the Texas home inspection market for the last 26
years. Lore Hemsell has been a Home Inspector for over 31 years.
Jim Hemsell served on the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC)
Inspectors Committee for 5 years and helped write the TREC
Standards of Practice. They have been selling various Home
Inspection report formats for the last 17 years to Texas
inspectors.
The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) has required specific
formatting of our inspection reports for years. This has created
a market for inexpensive and easy to use report formats that can
work well in your market. These reports are well tested and used
by over 4300 home inspectors in Texas for years. This popular
Texas format can also be used in other states around the
nation. Join the largest volume of Home Inspectors in the nation
using a simple and dynamic Home Inspection Reporting System.
Many computer generated report programs are powerful programs
that contain thousands of lines of computer code to help produce
the report. The work to generate and support this code is
expensive and developer propriety so the program is locked so no
one can steal the code. Locking the code makes it harder to
change and manipulate the program to make adjustments that
become necessary as operating systems and other software changes
over time. Inspection report software support is increasing
supported by a per report charge that will tie you to the
software company forever.
The ACL Report 2009 using a different concept and business
model. We generate Microsoft Word templates and leave the
template unlocked so you the Inspector can make changes to the
format as your market and conditions dictate. All ACL Home
Inspection Report 2009 templates operate the exact same way and
have the same capabilities to support text and picture formats.
The only difference is the extent that we have gone in and
customized the report to specific formats. You buy the template
once and use it as long as you are in business.
Why buy home inspection software ever again?
Microsoft Word is the powerful program
that is used to operate the template so these templates have all
the capabilities and file support of MS Word. Our Report 2009
Templates are Microsoft Word versions of a blank inspection
report so you will need to have MS Word (97 version or later) on
your computer to operate the template. Save the report as a new
file name and you are ready to go with the next inspection
report. Single click to activate the check boxes, open comment
field length, spell check, macro comment capabilities, insertion
of digital pictures and diagrams are all part of the power of
the Microsoft Word templates. A simple toolbar speeds you on
your way to using the report.
The Report 2009 templates come in seven different
configurations and all require a version of Microsoft Word or
Office installed on your computer.
The Report 2009 - Basic template looks and works just
like the TREC form. The comment field expands as you insert more
comments.
The Report 2009 - Intermediate template includes a series
of check boxes to help you meet the TREC & ASHI Standards of
Practice reporting requirements.
The Report 2009 - Professional - Texas template
includes text that closely mirrors the TREC Standards of
Practice and ASHI reporting requirements.
Our Report 2009 Professional - National template
meets the TREC and ASHI reporting requirements and is now for
sale on a nationwide basis. The Standards text is inserted in
the comment sections of the report and can easily be changed or
modified to fit your personal or state Standards of Practice. If
you pick up some new verbiage at the next ASHI Conference, then
you can easily type that information into your template once,
save it and it is there for all your future reports.
We also have Report 2009 - Macro Text has over 700 repair
and comment statements that I have developed and used in my home
inspection business for the last 25 years. There are comments
for new construction that reference the Texas Residential
Construction Commission (TRCC) Performance Standards and common
EIFS defects. The comments are coded to the report format
numbering system and expandable to include your own comments.
All auto text can be edited or deleted. Both templates are
licensed for one office computer and one laptop computer.
Report 2009 - Phased Home Inspection templates are the Report 2009 Basic templates that have been modified to covering the foundation, framing and final phases. The templates come with select IRC 2000 excerpts to help quote the IRC 2000 when making repair comments and a reduced version of the Report 2009 Macro Text relating to new