Improving Inspections— and the Profession

It was shortly after Bill Bryan and his wife moved from Virginia to California and bought a house that Bryan thought, “I’d like to be a home inspector.” Bryan remembers being struck by his interaction with the home inspector who came to inspect his new southern California home. “It was a strange inspection,” he said. “I thought, ‘I’m paying this guy to do this?’” Bryan, who spent more than 30 years in the military and also worked in construction for years, said he knew a lot about homes, but he was interested in learning more. He started rebuilding his house, essentially tearing his ...