Key takeaways
- Report hours are costed like site hours.
- Size surcharges are computed, not estimated.
- Ancillary services are tracked per inspection.
- Unsigned agreements are visible in advance.
A home inspection is priced by square footage and delivered in two parts, only one of which anyone counts. Three hours in the crawlspace and the attic are visible and get quoted for. The two hours spent that evening turning photographs into a defensible report are invisible and get quoted for by nobody. On a 1962 house with a Federal Pacific panel and a root-filled sewer line, the second half is the larger half. InspectDesk US costs both.
Report time is real time
Each inspection records the hours on site and the hours spent writing, and labor cost counts both at the inspector's own rate.
Older housing stock produces longer reports, which is why a flat price across a mixed market quietly subsidises the oldest houses on the schedule.
Size pricing applied the same way every time
Each service carries a square-foot threshold and a rate for every part-block above it, and the surcharge is computed rather than estimated at the door.
That removes the most common source of quoting inconsistency between inspectors in the same firm.
Ancillary services are the margin
Radon, sewer scope and termite are recorded as add-ons against the inspection, each with its own charge.
Because they cost little extra time relative to what they bill, the proportion of inspections carrying one is the single most useful number a growing firm can watch.
Agreements before the appointment
Every inspection carries an agreement record reading Signed, Sent unsigned or Not sent.
An unsigned pre-inspection agreement is a liability exposure, and the list is only useful if it is read before the inspector is standing on the driveway.
Review exceptions every week
Resolve duplicate IDs, missing links, overdue balances, negative amounts, and open operational items in CHECKS before using the dashboard for decisions.
InspectDesk US Google Sheets Edition is designed for use with a Google account and current desktop Google Sheets.
No report writing or photo report generation, no state licensing or continuing education filing, no radon lab result handling, no MLS or transaction management integration, and no client scheduling portal.
