Home inspections can protect buyers from expensive surprises; but rushed inspection deadlines, hidden defects, and assumptions about new construction can make the process more complicated than most people realize.

On season 2 episode 2 Mortgage Cowboys, Mark and Todd sit down with Chase Kerr of Morrison Plus Property Inspections to break down what professional home inspectors actually find, why new construction still deserves an inspection, and why extremely short inspection contingencies can create unnecessary chaos during a real estate transaction.

00:00 –Welcome to Mortgage Cowboys

04:00 – Leaving corporate sales to start a business

05:00 – The stranger who convinced Chase to become an owner

07:45 – Why franchising can reduce the risk of starting a business

14:35 – Home inspections, sewer scopes, drones, mold, and radon

18:10 – Trying to buy a home with no money down

28:15 – The worst things home inspectors find

30:05 – Why Chase refuses inspections on former drug houses

31:00 – Hundreds of razor blades hidden inside a wall

33:35 – A working toilet hidden inside a crawl space

35:00 – The Boise crawl space turned into a shooting range

36:10 – Why homeowners should get preventative inspections

37:30 – Why sellers should consider a pre-listing inspection

40:00 – How homeowners become “nose blind” to problems

43:05 – Why new construction still needs an inspection

50:00 – The aging workforce creating opportunity for young inspectors

57:15 – The owner-operator trap in real estate businesses

1:03:40 – “Would you buy this house?”

1:08:00 – The problem with rushing real estate transactions

1:15:10 – Why the home inspection should often happen first

1:18:00 – How to connect with Morrison Property Inspections