Glad to see I’d beat every number posted here so far. This is not rocket science, gentlemen. We’re not trying to land on the moon.
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Don’t leave us hanging. What are your numbers?
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There’s no way on God’s green earth that 60 mobile homes should take you more than a day and a half in the field, and a day and a half to write up. I walked the Chrysler Building complex (which, little known fact, is actually two buildings) in a day and a half. You’re not out there shopping for a ring and chatting as you go, or a writing a novel. You’re there to work.
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So, maybe you have a different type of mobile/manufactured home in whatever area you inspect.
It would seem practical to budget (conservatively) 1 --1.5 hours per “unit”, especially if there are foundation crawlspaces.
1.5 X 60 units…you do the math.
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Agree, and also assuming the agreed upon SCOPE to include the ‘Park’ itself, which would add another couple of hours, (in my experience performing Park Insurance Inspections).
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I gave the realtor a general guess, yet explaining it’s really useless without having a scope of work clearly defined. The way the realtor is secretive and not putting me in contact with the buyer was a turn off for me. She said “they normally use xyz inspections, but we’d love to see how much you could do it for”.
3 years in, I’m starting to not care as much about the realtors. All of my inspections have come from customers searching except one realtor referred me that I know of. For sure will embrace good relationships, but I work for the client, not the realtor.
Mark Roberts’ comment made a lot of sense to me.
Mark Roberts comment
“I would rather do 5 homes with pools and 4pts and be done by 2pm to make my 3k.”
Thanks again for the feedback, lots of good info from everyone!
I had that “offer” one time from a salesman and simply said have the call me and I’ll see what they want EXACTLY and go from there.
I actually did get the call. LOL
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There are 60 HVAC systems, 60 electrical systems, 60 plumbing systems, and 60 crawlspaces. I assume the buyer would want the issues itemized in order to assess which unit needs repaired. That would take awhile IMO.
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Life is too short to play games with realtors. There is a good chance they are only price shopping. With a setup like you describe I’d skip it unless and until they want to be serious.
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Good advice. Often times they are shopping around to get their inspector to lower their price. They want their experienced inspector to do the inspection at newbie pricing. Most are willing to cave in order to keep getting business.
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I see this as a result of CCPIA flooding the market.
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For sure, the first thoughts are like “this could be a lot of easy money”, quickly followed by “this could be a lot of unnecessary trouble”.
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Out of curiosity, what did you throw out as a number? And was it dismissed, or is this job still a possibility?
Hi Ryan, just through text, just told her somewhere between $3000 and $10000, but there is no way of knowing without a clear contract. She’s a new realtor and has already assumed the position as “commercial realtor” with the company. I did say $100/mobile home, but that was foolish because there’s a treatment plant, and other variables already mentioned in this thread.
Regarding realtors, there’s a fella that has done well, not sure if he inherited millions or accomplished himself. He has a couple businesses, one he’s a broker for residential properties, the other is commercial. I contacted him about commercial inspections, his reply was “yeah we don’t usually get inspections”.
At some point, there’s got to be a way to get through to clients without the realtor. I’ve bought two homes without realtors, and they went as smooth or more as any. It’s not rocket science.
To be clear, it’s over, I’m not chasing it or entertaining it.
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Did you get inspections on those homes? If so, how did you find your inspector?
I did not, I looked through them myself. Bought as is.
Hey Jamie,
If it helps, just give me a call on your next commercial project if you need some help bidding or putting a proposal together, or just want to bat around a few scenarios.
This one sounded like it was basically trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Likely no chance of making an amicable scope of work to meet their needs. The realtor was doing a disservice to their client in this situation as well.
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She’s basically a kid that was brought up by popular arrogant broker, they think they’re movie stars or something at times it seems. But at end of the day, have to question are they really providing their client a service, not necessarily, you hit nail on head with that one.
Thank you very much!