The Home Inspection Industry

For the past 15 years, the home inspection industry has been growing by leaps and bounds. As the demands of the home buying public and the regulations regarding real estate have evolved, more and more people hire a home inspector when they are involved in a real estate transaction.

In today's real estate market over 95% of real estate transactions involve a professional Home Inspection. These services improve consumer confidence and lead to an increase in the success rate of home sales.

It is also more common for lenders and insurance companies to request a certified home inspection report prior to putting a mortgage on a house or insuring it. Realtors are continuing to demand excellence and professionalism from Home Inspectors, and to provide assistance and peace of mind to their homebuyers and sellers.

Home Inspection Franchise Opportunity

For entrepreneurs, franchises like A Buyer's Choice Home Inspections are a solid investment. According to statistics, 92% of franchises businesses are still operating after five years due to the support a franchise system provides. However, 80% of individual start-up businesses fail within those same first five years.

"We're thrilled with our rate of growth in the Unites States," says CEO Bill Redfern from head office in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. "But we have no intention of resting on our laurels. A Buyer's Choice Home Inspections is already aggressively expanding across the United States, and we're eyeing opportunities in Europe and beyond."

A Home Inspection business provides other benefits. You can work from a home office, therefore eliminating one of the main expenses of traditional businesses. You don't need to spend a lot of money acquiring inventory, nor do you need to deal with hiring and managing staff, doing payroll, or other human resource issues.

Our Home Inspector and Franchise Training Courses

As a franchise operation, we know that your success is our success. To be an effective and efficient home inspector, you need to have the right training and support. With our mutual success in mind, A Buyer's Choice Home Inspections provides the most up-to-date training and ongoing training to ensure that all franchisees are on the leading edge in the home inspection industry.

Pre-Training:

Pre-Training involves a period of guided home study; we walk you through the entire process to get you ready for the next stage.  Our business coaching begins the day that you sign your franchise agreement and ramps up while you prepare for our Home Inspector Boot Camp.

Home Inspector Boot Camp:

This is an intensive interactive course at our head office. Our professional trainers will guide you through all technical subjects pertaining to inspecting, including customer service, field training, marketing, business law, operations, staffing, and all relevant business topics in order to successfully operate your business. It concludes with participation of actual customer inspections and a test inspection, followed by graduation ceremonies and a certificate of completion.

Home Market Training:

After graduating from boot camp, you are then guided through our mentoring program, which includes an ongoing weekly training call that continues for a minimum of 6 months. Upon completion of our comprehensive and jam-packed training, you will feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment and confidence to operate and succeed in your new business.

Our follow-up support and training is unique to the industry. Our program walks you through the challenges of new business ownership by providing telephone and email technical support, as well as marketing training in your home territory with on-site support from your Regional Manager - all designed to ramp up your business efficiently and quickly!

The franchisee is also required to complete ongoing education and refresher training annually, as well as our educationally based annual conference.  This year, our 2010 In The Sunshine" Conference took place in Orlando, Florida.  It was jam-packed with educational and motivational speakers, seminars, and a Gala Ball Awards Dinner.