Home Inspection · Brevard County
Sawgrass Home Inspections
Renee Alcott · Owner, inspecting Florida houses since 2012 · Fictional demonstration
The report your insurer wants is not the same one you want.
In Florida you are buying two reports, not one, and only one of them is written for you.
Renee Alcott has inspected Florida houses since 2012 - the pre-purchase inspection, plus the wind mitigation and four-point reports an insurer asks for before it will write a policy. She goes into the attic herself, she writes the report the same day, and she will tell you standing on the driveway whether what she found is worth walking away from.
Who runs it
She does the inspection herself, and the attic is not optional. Most of what decides a Florida house sits above the ceiling: the roof deck, how it is fastened down, where the water has been, and whether the ducts are doing anything at all.
The report comes back the same day. An inspection period is short, and a report that lands on the last afternoon of it leaves you nothing you can actually do.
What they do
- 01Pre-purchase inspection
Roof, structure, electrics, plumbing, air conditioning, and everything the listing photographs did not show.
- 02Wind mitigation report
The form your insurer reads. It is a separate document from the inspection and most buyers do not know to ask for it.
- 03Four-point inspection
Roof, electrical, plumbing and air conditioning on their own. An older Florida house is often not insurable without one.
- 04Moisture and water intrusion
Behind stucco, under windows, around a shower wall. Meters rather than an opinion.
- 05New construction walkthrough
Before you close on a new build, while the builder still has a reason to come back and fix it.
- 06Re-inspection
After the repairs. Somebody has to check the work was actually done, and done properly.
Who it does not suit
It does not suit somebody who wants a report that says what the seller would like it to say, anybody after a verbal opinion with nothing written down, or commercial buildings and multi-family blocks, which are a different business.
Track record
- 2012
- Inspecting Florida houses since
- Same day
- Report back, with photographs
- Brevard
- County served
How an inspection goes
- 1Booked inside your inspection period
Not at the end of it. What she finds is only worth anything while you can still act on it.
- 2The outside and the roof
Covering, flashing, soffits, the grade around the house, and where the water goes in a storm.
- 3The attic
Roof deck, fastenings, leaks old and new, insulation and ductwork. The part nobody else looks at.
- 4Inside, room by room
Electrics, plumbing, appliances, windows and doors, and a moisture meter on anything that looks wrong.
- 5The insurance reports
Wind mitigation and four-point where they are needed, written at the same visit rather than as a second trip.
- 6The report, same day
With photographs, and a telephone call to go through what actually matters in it.
Reach them
- Telephone
- (321) 555-XXXX
- Inspects in
- Florida
renee@sawgrassinspections.example
sawgrassinspections.example
Who it suits
This suits anyone buying a Florida house, new or old. It suits a house more than twenty years old, where an insurer will ask for a four-point before it writes anything, and a buyer who wants the wind mitigation report done at the same visit. It suits a new build, checked before the builder's warranty starts running, and a house with stucco cracks, a stain on a ceiling or a smell nobody can place. It suits a short inspection period that is already running.
Book it at the start of the inspection period, not at the end of it.
Call (321) 555-XXXX