Inspector Toolbelt Talk
A weekly home inspection podcast hosted by the founders of Inspector Toolbelt - the premier home inspection software. Get tips, insights, strategies, and more from our hosts and guests to help give your home inspection business a boost. Ian and Beon are property inspection and tech industry veterans with over 20 years of experience each. Sometimes they even stay on point :)
Episodes
211 episodes
The Home Inspection Singularity Is Here!
The home inspection world is entering a moment where the old rules don’t hold. We’ve spent years predicting how AI would show up in inspection software, report writing, and day-to-day operations and now most of it is already here. The tougher p...
Should You Display Your Prices on Your Website?
The fastest way to turn a curious homebuyer into a bounced visit might be the simplest thing on your site: a pricing page. We dig into the real question behind “Should I display prices on my website?” and why, for most home inspectors, the answ...
Do Less, Earn More
If you’ve ever caught yourself saying, “I’ll just do it myself,” this conversation is going to sting in the best way. We sit down with Mike Marlow of Veteran Home Inspections to break down the deceptively simple idea behind Who Not How: stop as...
Afford to Care
A sewer line can look brand new from the yard and still be a financial trap. We share a true inspection story where a homebuyer skipped a sewer scope, the listing claimed the line was fully replaced, and visible PVC seemed to confirm it. One in...
People Want to Feel Smart and Pretty
A client calls furious about something “not working,” you walk them to the solution, and somehow they’re even more upset. That’s not a technical failure. That’s a dignity failure and it can cost you reviews, referrals, and trust if you don’t kn...
Run Your Home Inspection Business On Your Terms
You can work for yourself and still feel like you have a thousand bosses. If real estate agents set your pace, clients control your schedule, and one complaint can shake your home inspection pricing, it’s time to take the wheel back.We ...
Inspections to Pest Control - How to Make It Happen
A lot of home inspectors look at pest control and think, “We’re already at the house, how hard can it be?” Seth Garber heard that idea and disagreed loudly enough to come out of podcast retirement. Seth runs Pest Daily, has built and sold a pes...
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Why Vacations are Hard - And How to Change That
Vacations are supposed to feel like freedom, but for a solo home inspector they can feel like a financial penalty plus a week of anxiety. We talk through why time off hits inspection company owners so hard: the phone still rings, agents still n...
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Home Inspectors Could Take Over The Pest Control Industry
Your home inspection business can be busy and still be fragile. If revenue depends on one-time clients and the owner’s calendar, what happens when you want to step back, hire more people, or sell? That question drives a candid conversation with...
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Your Best Inspection Tool Is Social Awareness
You can be a highly skilled home inspector and still lose the room in the first two minutes. That’s the uncomfortable truth we tackle here, through a simple idea with deep impact: “read the room,” or what Confucius called the virtue of Li, soci...
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Q3 Market Outlook - 2026
“Inspectacles” might be the funniest name in home inspection tech right now, but it points to a serious shift: AI is accelerating how inspections get done, how reports get written, and how buyers compare one inspector to the next. We’re watchin...
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Million Dollar Success - With Ian Mayer
A million-dollar home inspection company is not built by grinding harder in crawl spaces, it is built by designing a business that stops depending on you for every booking, every call, and every dollar. We sit down with Ian Mayer of I Am Home I...
Do Not Let AI Write Checks Our Knowledge Can't Cash
A home inspection report is only as strong as your ability to stand behind every line of it and AI is testing that in real time. We pick up a thread from our conversation about legal issues with veteran inspector and legal expert Joe Ferry and ...
"All The Legal Stuff" With Joe Ferry, The Home Inspection Lawyer
A furnace dies, a roof leaks, a heat pump quits during a blizzard and somehow the home inspector becomes the villain. We sit down with home inspector attorney Joe Ferry, who’s responded to roughly 4,000 claims, to explain how most complaints ac...
Value Over Price
“We made how much in 40 minutes?” That question hits different when you remember what a great home inspection actually does. We unpack a story from Jay Wen: a septic inspection goes sideways fast, the system is flooded, and the discovery isn’t ...
Are People Getting Harder to Deal With?
People aren’t magically “worse” overnight, but the stress level in public life is undeniably higher, and home inspections sit right in the blast zone. We kick back for another Drinking With Jay conversation and get blunt about what we’re seeing...
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Higher Level AI For Home Inspectors
Your phone rings while you’re in an attic, your inbox is full of scheduling questions, and you still need to train new inspectors without burning your week. That’s where AI can actually help, but only if you use it for systems, not shortcuts.
Manage Expectations
Clients don’t judge your inspection against your standards of practice. They judge it against the story in their head and that story is often wrong. We talk through one of the most overlooked skills in home inspection: managing expectations so ...
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Liability Layers For Home Inspectors
Most inspectors think liability is solved by one thing: being right. But lawsuits don’t run on righteousness, they run on economics. If it’s cheap to chase you, even a shaky complaint can snowball. If it’s expensive to fight through your proces...
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Q2 - 2026 Home Inspection Market Outlook
A single software change can ripple through an entire industry, and that’s exactly why we open with the Spectora Fixel blowup. When an ad appears before a client can download an inspection report, the immediate question isn’t “is it optional?” ...
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Growing Pains
Growing a home inspection company is supposed to feel like progress, but sometimes it feels like you are sprinting just to stay upright. We sit down again with Mike Ortiz, one of our favorite returning guests, to unpack the real “growing pains”...
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Quick Tip: Control the Situation
Someone is going to get emotional during a home inspection. It might be a client who is stressed, an agent who is defensive, a contractor who disagrees, or a family member who wants to argue about a minor detail. When that moment hits, raw logi...
The Commercial Mindset
Commercial inspections aren’t a bigger version of home inspections—they’re a different ocean. We sit down with Lance Kaufman of Focus Building Inspections to unpack what separates a true commercial practice from an ancillary add-on, and why the...
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A Thousand Little Things Build an Inspection Business
Looking for the “one big thing” that fills your calendar? We make the case that there isn’t one—and that’s good news. Real growth for home inspectors comes from a thousand small moments: the first second someone sees your face online, the way y...
