San Diego Home Inspection Services

Mark is Awesome! My clients just love him. He writes a detailed report with photos and hands to you right on the spot. I prefer to have it e-​mailed though just to keep from waiting, but both options are available. He is experienced and thorough. Thanks Mark! We love ya!

San Diego Home Inspection Services was referred to me by my realtor. I am in the process of purchasing my first home, a condo, via short sale. It was important to me that I have a thorough inspection and get all my questions answered.
Mark met me and my realtor at the condo right on time, and proceeded to inspect the condo. What I particularly appreciated was that Mark pointed out different things to me that he thought added value to the condo (like the Toto toilets) as well as items that, although functioning, were in need of some repair. He also gave me recommendations on how to proceed with the repairs. For example, he suggested that if I have a plumber come in to look at the water valves in the bathroom, I may also want him to add half-​turn water shut-​off valves near the washing machine during the same visit (to make turning off the water there easier.) This is not something I would’ve thought of, but it makes sense, and I will request that my plumber do this for me.
Mark’s inspection seemed very thorough, and took about an hour. After he was finished, I followed him out to his van and he was able to print out a color report for me in a bout 10 minutes. He also emailed my realtor a copy for her records as well.
Mark was friendly and professional. I would highly recommend SDHIS to any person seeking a home or condo inspection!

We hired SDHIS to inspect a home that we were considering buying. He was a referral from our broker. We’ve since learned that you should NEVER take a broker’s reference for a home inspector … always get a third party not affiliated with the realtor. This way their is no conflict of interest.
So, SDHIS inspected the home and found some minor issues with the place. Bottom line is he said it was one of the cleanest inspections he had ever done. So we were feeling pretty good. Didn’t renegotated our offer price to significantly with the seller since there wasn’t much in the report. The whole purpose of an inspection report is to find out what’s wrong and factor that into the purchase price of the home.
Now that we’ve lived in the house for two weeks and we’ve uncovered a series of issues that we’d expect the inspector should have found, including:
1) Faulty electrical outlets (SDHIS report said «Acceptable’)
2) Very poor drainage/​bad ponding in the backyard (SDHIS report said «Acceptable»)
3) Next to no insulation (SDHIS report said «Acceptable)
4) Water pressure above 100psi due to broken regulator (SDHIS report said «Acceptable» water pressure)
We called SDHIS to inform them of the issues, they agreed to come back to the house to verify. They agreed that the drainage issue was something they missed but said the other issues either came up since the inspection or weren’t part of their inspection.
Now, I’ll tell you what, had I known about the issues in the house I still would have bought it. But I would have negotiated a lower price or had the seller fix the issues before I moved in. These extra things cost like $ 1000 to fix.
SDHIS refunded our the inspection fee of $ 325 but I still have to shell out like $ 700 to fix the problems.
In the end, our inspector is a really nice guy and did, as I said, refund my inspection fee but I wouldn’t recommend SDHIS to my friends.