I have recently been asked if I could inspect a quadplex for one client and another asked if I could inspect a 6 unit apartment complex. I haven’t tackled any inspections like this before and the biggest question for me is how to price it. The Thoughts I had were to:
Any advice would help.
What is your scope of work or standard of practice? This will determine the price.
I always look at the square footage of the building as if it’s one big house.
Then add on $100-120 per unit over 1.
Then I may discount or upcharge depending on the location, and how busy we are.
A 4 plex across town in the hood during the busy season, you’re paying extra.
A 4 plex close to home when it’s slow, I can knock off a few bucks.
5 units and over requires a commercial prerequisite certification.
4 plex. I charge between $250 to $300 per unit and the building.
Take an image of each units civic address before you start the indoor inspection. That well keep your defects tied to the unit numbers.
I load all water heater manufacturing labels under one water heater section. Typically many will be the same manufactures. Copy and paste saves you time in that case. Below is from a triplex.
Who is required to have this certificate?
He keeps applying his Canadian standards to U.S. inspectors, doing nothing but supplying new inspectors with BAD information!!
On a side note:
How long would it take for a house that size and how much would you charge? Then add time for each kitchen, furnace and water heater if applicable.
The first one is a bit of a learner regarding how much time it’ll take and how much to charge, so don’t sweat it if you didn’t charge enough.
By this definition, inspections of more than four or five units are generally categorized as commercial property inspections , and the ComSOP should be applied.
This course aims to provide best practices and reasonable approaches for inspecting commercial properties by examining the International Standards of Practice for Inspecting Commercial Properties. It’s titled “prerequisite” because we believe that before you conduct a commercial property inspection, you should take this course.
There is a big difference between requires and should. For the record, I do not use the ComSop. And there is no requirement that I must.
Yes, I concur. I could have worded my explanation better.
I charge my basic house price, plus 100 per unit, however this is if the building has a reasonably accessible roof, I have done larger buildings that I needed to hire a crane to get me above the roof, so obviously I has to charge to cover that as well. So for me the access to the roof is my concern before pricing
Holy Cow, JP!
Just how much do you weigh?
How do you Inspect a 4 story buildings roof ? I am definitely not overweight, just can’t handle a 50 foot ladder
