I had an agent recommend that we put up a sticker, similar to the termite guys service sticker, to remind the client who did the home inspection (and roof, foundation, etc). I’ve got mixed feelings about it. The advertisement would be nice and the reminder for the client to tell their friends who did it would be great. Any drawbacks you guys can think of? Any of you already doing it?
We’re based in the San Francisco bay area, California if that matters.
Who are you advertising to? The home owner isn’t likely to need your services, the only other people that might see it is an electrician or irrigation guy.
Finally, when the Home Owner finds a widening caulk seam 18 months later, he’s getting on the horn to you.
I’ve done inspections on homes with home inspection stickers on the electrical panel. I pull them off. That said, maybe I should leave 'em be.
If you need to place a “sticker” (somewhere) in a persons home to help remind them who you are, then you suk as an inspector and a memorable human being worthy of remembering!
Just in the last month alone, I have had calls from two past clients… one five years and another 7 years ago. Yup… time to upgrade to their new home(s)!
I have zero need to place stickers, magnets, or any other items defacing a persons home, anywhere in their home. The quality of my work and my personal attention and helpfulness, make it easy for them to remember me, thus easy to find my info when needed in the future.
Count me as a nay. Would you want your inspector, HVAC guy, plumber, electrician, roofer, etc. etc. placing stickers all over your house? I know I wouldn’t.
Send out a monthly newsletter with helpful information in it, they’ll appreciate that.
There have been problems in every electrical panel that I have opened that had an inspector’s tag on it. Even though the inspector might have called out the double taps, bonding issues ETC, he is tagging it like it is his work. Why would you want to do this?
A somewhat local inspector puts valve tags on every water & gas valve in the home. Half the time the tag is identifying the wrong utility. What is the automatic thinking when you see this?
We are paid to inspect the home. Not to walk around peeing on every tree to mark our territory.
Pillar to Post leave tags on everything. Main Water Shutoff, Sprinkler Shutoff, Furnace Filter, and more…but I am the guy inspecting the house. Apparently, few folks pay much attention to those tags.
Been doing it for years. A sticker inside the service panel door, and a tent card on the kitchen counter. Never a complaint about it. And the realtors typically compliment it.
At every inspection I place a sticker in the electrical panel behind the dead front cover, on the door inside, on the outside of the door, one under each sink in the house, one on each HVAC unit inside and out, one on each water heater, one on every appliance as well. The stickers have the names of other Inspection firms on it with an 800 Sex number for a local prostitute ring as the contact.
