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Speaker 1 0:04
All right, guys, back with another episode of open house. This is episode three. We are here with a home inspector. I know I say this almost every time, but this can also be a very scary process, if you don't know kind of the ins and out of it. So that's what we're here to do.
Speaker 2 0:19
You want to go ahead and tell everybody your name, yeah, Jonathan McCain, with a own company, McCain, Home Inspections. So we just primarily do home inspections. We don't really offer any services outside of that. But, you know, just, just the home inspection, it's a pretty, pretty good process, pretty lengthy process, right? You said you were at a start one. But what areas do you kind of service anywhere within about an hour of sortful. So I go to Amory, Columbus, Columbus, a lot. I like, I go to Philadelphia, eupora, you travel, yeah. I mean, you know, keep busy and stuff like that. So, yeah. I mean, is it just you, or do you have people just me, just me, just me, by myself, you know. And you know, like last year, we did around 500 inspections. My wife will help me every once in a while, if she's not at work. Yeah, she's pretty busy doing her own thing. So it's pretty rare when she goes to get to tell me, but pretty rarely she does.
Speaker 1 1:12
Just from this is actually just a question I have in general, what is a So, what does that process look like, becoming a home inspector? What all kind of certification?
Speaker 2 1:19
Well, you have to have a about, I think it's 20 hours, you know, you can pick, there's so many different classes you can take online schools or whatever, but you have to do 120 hours of that. Then you have to pass a state test, which is, you know, like 400 question, you know, eight hour long test is pretty, pretty intense. And then you just have to get certified with state, get insurance, you know, to keep it going, you have to have continued to add, yeah, stuff like that, like, kind of, like a lot of stuff, but it's nothing crazy, you know. But it's, you know, it's a, it's a process, right?
Speaker 1 1:56
So, I mean, obviously you guys know what a home inspection is, but you know, kind of getting to that point you're approved. We look at a house either from a buyer or seller side. You know, you have an offer on a house, whatever, whatever you want to say, but home inspection comes back. And that's usually a big, you know, it's a big hurdle to jump through in the home buying selling process. Kind of just give a brief overview of what a home inspection really is.
Speaker 2 2:17
Well, it's just, you know, kind of visually. So we can't see inside walls. I can't see inside of the foundation, you know. So we're looking for clues outside of those, you know. So, you know, test all the plumbing that we can see, all the electrical that we can see. Look at the electrical panel, look at the roof, you know. I would say most addicts in Mississippi aren't great, like they're low roofs and stuff like that. So you can't go very far. You can get in certain spots, but, you know, as long as it's visual, we can see it and we can test it, right? So that's basically a home inspection. Is just anything visual that we can test, you know. So from the roof all the way down to the foundation, and how long does it usually take you to do it? So, you know, that's kind of a loaded question. So it's on what you're looking you know? I mean, you get some of these small, really nice houses, and you can be in and out an hour and 15 hour and 20 minutes, you know, and then you get some small, not so nice houses, and you're there for three hours. Yeah, it's just basically, the more stuff we find that we have to document, the longer we're there, because we took a picture of everything. Yeah, you have to, you know, get a note of everything. So, you know, the more stuff there is, the longer you're going to be there. Yeah, documenting. I've done three, 4000 square foot houses in the same time that I've done a 1500 square foot house, just because this 3000 square foot house was so much nicer and so much more well well maintained, right, than in this house was so so, I guess that's kind of another loaded question coming for you. How long does it usually take to get that back? So I get you the report same day. Okay, so every report is got, you know, you'll have five or six o'clock that evening on my side, you know, I'm going to get you that report every day like so I go do my reports on site, and I go home and finish them all up. Most of my reporting is done 90% on site, so I have to come home just kind of clean it up, and then I get the report. Realtor will get it the same day as well. Yeah, so that y'all can the next day, y'all can communicate with what you wanted to proceed or negotiate in however, that that's what I was
Speaker 1 4:21
actually just about to say. From the realtor side, this is just a big negotiating tool. I mean, if I'm, if I'm a buyer, put an offering on a house, I get this inspection to kind of protect me once I move in, yeah, you know, kind of what I need to fix, what I don't Yeah, exactly. And then, from the seller perspective, you know, this is what if somebody puts an offering on your house, this is what they may be asking you to fix that kind of thing. So kind of getting into that common problems you find, maybe not the most serious, but what is the most just?
Speaker 2 4:46
I mean, you know, you can have, yeah, you can have anything from just no GFCIs, which is super simple light bulbs. You know, no lights not working. Most of the time. It's just a light bulb, yeah, you know, you know. So those are just super. For common things you see on almost every house. There's some electrical panel stuff you see on every house, and it's just because of how standards have changed from where they were 20 years ago to where they are today, you know. So we see a lot of that. And you know, I have Realtors that'd be like, Yep, it's on that receive report. And it's like, yep, same report, because this house hasn't been inspected in 20 years, yeah. And so that was normal then, and it's not normal now. Yeah. So we, you know, try to make those changes and call those out as well. So even some stuff that you see every day, and some of the almost all that stuff is pretty, relatively easy fixed, you know. So I was just about
Speaker 1 5:33
to say, I've told this story before, but me and my partner flip houses and we got, we didn't know we're doing like I said when we kind of first started, but we got our first inspection report back, and we were like, man, good gracious, man. Why does this 80 pages, a lot of yeses, but, but I'm assuming that's to protect you.
Speaker 2 5:47
Yeah. I mean, so, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, if I don't, if I don't, if I miss a light bulb, I've had people call me because it's like, my light bulb doesn't work. And it's like, you know? And you start looking through pictures, and you go, well, it, I have a picture of it here that it was working, then it just blew. Yeah, and so, but yeah, you know. So you still have, you have to document everything. You have to take a picture of everything. I mean, my reports are going to have a picture of every square inch of you, of that house, yeah? And it's more, you know, to help to protect the client, but also protect me. Of, you know, I've had where somebody's moved into a house and there's been a hole the size of this in the wall. And they called me the day they moved in, because I didn't, that wasn't part of their, you know, on the report, and, well, come to find out, there's a huge armoire when I was there, when I go back and look at my pictures, there's a huge armoire, yeah, just covering this whole day they covered it. So, yeah, so it was just like, Well, I'm sorry, but you know, yeah, I can't move furniture. So, right? Um, we talked about kind of most common problems you find. But from a buyer's perspective, I don't know if you really want to say this or not, but what is something that is a big red flag, like something you really want to make sure you taken care of? So it's, it depends on the person, yeah, so I try not to Red Flag anybody or anything on that. Because what what you find, you know, as a big problem, somebody else, I may not find as a big problem, just from the way I grew up and the way you grew up are two totally different things in which you may have an uncle that's a roofer, and I may think this roof's a bad problem. You go, well, uncle's a roofer, so I'll just get him to come over, right? You know? So everybody's different, you know, I've literally stuck my hand in houses that have massive foundation movement, and I stick my hand in there and go, you know, you've had massive foundation movement. And people go, okay, cool. And then you, you know, you see one little crack in a brick, like my wife, who sees one little crack in a brick, and then goes, Oh, yeah, we're not, we're not buying this house. Take care of that, you know. So everybody's different in that aspect of that. So it's, you know, I try to just present what everything is, and say, hey, look, this is everything. And some people may want the GFCI may be just as important as a sagging roof, yeah, to the Elm, you know? So I can't predict that, so I just try to present everything as like, Hey, this is what you have, and this is what you need to deal with. And you have to kind of decide what affects you down the road, right? You know, because it's not going to affect me down the road, because I'm not going to live there, you're going to live there. So you're the person that needs to decide these things, not me.
Speaker 1 8:21
So what is something that people kind of panic about that may not be as big a deal, I know, obviously you're not a license.
Speaker 2 8:29
Yeah, I mean, so it goes back to the same thing. It's, you know, I have people that, you know, I use my wife again, for perfect example, when we're looking at houses, and she knows almost much as I do about this business, from me being in it, and her helping me and stuff like that, but once again, she sees a cracked brick on a house and goes, That's foundation issue. It's like, that's not, that's not a foundation issue, most likely. But, you know, it's so everybody's different, and everybody has that one thing that bothers them, you know? And it's like, oh, well, this happened. It's, this is the end of the world, yeah? And some of it, I look at and go, not that big deal. But then, you know, I look at some things that are probably complicated measures, and go, I mean, you know, that's not a big deal to me, yeah? But then some people look and go, that's in the world. And I'm like, I mean, not 100 bucks, you know, 500 bucks in the right person that can be fixed, you know, kind of thing. And, you know, it just all depends on, you know, who the person is and what they're experiencing. People that are, you know, I had this experience with my last house, and I just don't want that this to ever happen again. And it's totally understandable, right? You know, I've had the same thing on houses where it's like, I don't want, I don't want to ever experience this again, you know, and so, so it kind of just experiences, and how people deal with those will affect, you know, them on a home inspection.
Speaker 1 9:50
Yeah, and I don't want to speak for you, but I mean, I'm assuming there's not many perfect houses. So, I mean,
Speaker 2 9:54
there's no perfect house. I mean, there's brand new houses, and you're going to find stuff wrong with brand new houses. Um. Um, and, you know, it's just how it is. I mean, there's no perfect house is what there is. I'm building a house right now, and every day, there's, I go down there, and there's, there's something that's like, maybe we should change this. Yeah, you know, that's, I don't like that, you know. And it's one of those things where it's like, it'd probably be fine, you know, as it is. But it's, why not fix it now? And, you know, and but I'm gonna go ahead and tell you that I'm built the house I'm building will not be perfect. Yeah, when I finished my house, my current house is not perfect, I could walk you around my current house and point out seven or eight things that I would put on an inspection report. Yeah? So, no, no. Perfect houses. It was not really like a, I think a lot of people think of people think of a home inspection as, like a pass or fail, but it's more just Yeah, heads up of you know, and people ask me, I did it pass? And it's like, there is the only pass or failed is the person, yeah, you just, you know, the client. The client can, will decide, you know, if they decide to walk away, then it failed, in their opinion. You know, if they didn't decide to walk away, it may have passed, but with with a caveat of, you know, I want these things fixed, yeah, you know, so it passed, but I still want these things fixed. With that being
Speaker 1 11:09
said, a lot of it, like you said, is buyer discretion, but is there, if so, shifting gears a little bit to a seller perspective? I mean, is there? Is there stuff you see that would, you know, behoove sellers to go ahead and just
Speaker 2 11:19
take care of, you know, so easy things wait to reduce the amount of pages that I put in the report is, you know, you wouldn't believe how many light bulbs you know, you know, had to put light in operable because, yeah, most likely it's a light bulb, but it could also be that light fixture. Yeah, I don't know that. I'm not carrying light bulbs with me, you know. So if you know, if people did stuff like, you know, getting their light bulbs replaced, changing their air filters, just small steps like that would save numerous pages on a report, yeah? And then it would make it more concise for the buyer to look through and not be like, Oh, well, there's five light bulbs out. Does that mean there's electrical issue? Yeah, you know, because that's your first thing is, like, when you see one light bulb, you're like, oh, it's light bulb. But bulb, but then you have five those that are out, and somebody has just didn't want to change their light bulbs. And you're like, thinking, well, maybe there's an electrical issue that's affecting these five lights throughout the house, and so that kind of that can scare somebody away, yeah, and that's what I was kind of saying earlier, like, when, when we did that first flip house, we got back all those pages. And at first, I was just like, this is this is overwhelming. But once you really kind of our realtor, actually, at the time, Brandon, he walked us through it, and he was like, you know, 30 of these pages are light bulbs and generally, door handles. And yeah, exactly, you know, it's just, I mean, if you tighten up a handle, if you walk through your house and tighten up a door handle, and, you know, made sure all your windows latched and just small stuff like that, would I mean, if every seller did that, you could literally consolidate reports so much faster, yeah, and it made my job easier.
Speaker 1 12:55
So kind of like locally, is there anything specific to this area that you see a lot
Speaker 2 12:59
of problems? Yeah. I mean, we see a lot of foundations here have settled. We have terrible soil here. Somebody told me at one point, a soil person at Mississippi State told me at one point that the soil here is so mostly clay that it can expand and contract up to 150% so when that happens, you're going to have foundations that shift, not all shifting foundation is the end of the world. I mean, I go to some houses and there's cracks, and it's like, Yep, it shifted probably 20 years ago, you know? And, and most likely they're gonna tell you it's fine and just to live with it, yeah. Like, say there's certain neighborhoods, Starkville, Columbus, that have just rampant foundation issues that are pretty well known. And so that's, that's something we see all the time, and it's just like, it's like, very common issue here, you know, we don't have a lot of basements in Mississippi, especially that. I mean, you go portions of other portions of Mississippi, you might, but this area, you don't, just because of the clay and stuff like that. We don't build basements here. But, yeah. I mean, that's, you know, those things like, you know, are super common here, but that's kind of the only thing I would say is kind of central to this area, is, is that just because, yeah, just because of the soil that we have, it's just super common
Speaker 1 14:15
kind of story time, I guess. But what is you have a craziest thing you've ever seen, or, you know,
Speaker 2 14:21
cut this, but, I mean, I've seen sexual devices, sex wings and stuff like that, you know, you get in somebody like, what world? I mean, nothing crazy. But the craziest that, you know, my crazy thing is that, you know, I mean, tell my wife all the times I hadn't found a dead body yet, like, that's my that's the ultimate dream. There is, you get up on her house and you find you find a dead body, and you're like, well, that's time to, you know, time to retire at that point. But no, I mean, nothing crazy. I mean, you know, I see all these, I follow a lot of these inspectors on Tiktok and stuff like that. And they're like, This is the craziest thing I've seen, you know, this week. And it's like, I saw four of those. Yeah, this week. Like. It's not that, yeah, that's not that big of a deal. You know, it's not that big of a deal. But I guess, once again, it's everybody's perspective on things. And you know what they see on a like, say, I have a guy that I kind of train with over and he's up toward Red Bay, Alabama, and they don't have foundation issues there. They have a very hard, stable stone soil, you know, like they have a very rocky soil, so they don't have foundation issues. Yeah. So if he sees, like, a slab on Graham house that has a foundation issue, he might see one a month. It's so rare there, and I see two a day, yeah, you know. And so it's, he's kind of, when we talk, he's like, Man, I can't, I just can't believe that you see that many. And whereas he didn't, you know, so rare there, he's, you know, he's like, I never recommend, like, a structural engineer or anything like that here for foundations, because it's, it almost never happens, yeah, so, you know. But no, I mean, nothing, you know. You just don't, I mean, you see, you know, crazy stuff, but nothing, I mean, nothing, you know.
Speaker 1 16:05
So a lot of this stuff, like you said, is kind of up to bar discretion, so that kind of takes out that portion of it. But, like, in your opinion, how should people approach these inspections? Because it can get overwhelming.
Speaker 2 16:17
I think, yeah, I mean, it just kind of just calm down, you know, I think a lot of people build up inspections to be so stressful, and what I tell people on that is, just use it to your advantage, like you're paying me for your advantage to do something with whether it's to walk away from the house. But even if, if I find one broken window, and you negotiate in to have that one broken window fixed, a broken window could cost you three, 400 bucks, yeah? So, I mean, what you've paid me, and what I and I found one broken window, and you negotiated that in, whereas you weren't going to negotiate that in before you literally just it paid for itself, yeah, let alone if you get a new roof. You know, that's God, you know, several $1,000 all the way up to $20,000 and I find four or five things wrong with the roof that you didn't see when you were walking through because you were so in love with how the layout was, that you didn't pay attention to the roof. And then I get up on the roof, and it's, you know, in terrible shape, or maybe it's just in kind of okay shape, and there's a SAG here, and, you know, something like that, and you end up negotiating in a $15,000 roof. The little bit of money that you paid me is beyond that, and so that tell people is like, just look at your report. Don't look at it as a stressful thing. Look at it as a tool, you know, that you can use in the Go negotiating process. Or, like, say, you may find it where you think this was the best house you ever seen, and I come through and you go, well, it wasn't worth all the stuff that it was to fix it, so I'm gonna walk away, yeah? And I'm, you know. And you wouldn't believe how many houses that I do for people. And then they find a second house, they pull out, they back out of that first deal, and they find a second house that is so much better, yeah, you know. And they're so much happier that they, you know. And it's like, oh, we thought that that was our dream house, and then we found this house, and it's so much better. The report usually come, you know, will come back better or something. But it's just like, that's kind of like, I love that. It's like, you know, that we found some stuff on this first house that you didn't see, but then you found this other house two weeks later. That is just you thought you could never find, you know? So that's what I love about it, is finding that, you know, it kind of sucks that, yeah, you have to, you know, you pay for something that you know you didn't really keep. But, I mean, when you find so much more better, it's just like, nice, like that, right? Just see it on somebody's face, like, oh, man, this is so much nicer. Yeah. And we've talked about, we've talked about a lot from the buyer side, and obviously, you know, reasonably so you protecting the buyer. But is there anything you would have to say to sellers? I mean, like, I say just, I feel like it's negative, yeah. I mean, more just to prepare your house, prepare your house for it, yeah. You know, more than anything else, is just fixing light bulbs or just clearing stuff out of the way. I mean, you wouldn't, you would be shocked with how many houses I go in where I can't get to something and I have to mark it as inaccessible because I can't get to your electric electrical panel to look at it, because there's six boxes stacked in front of and I can't move those boxes. You know, for all I know, there's, you know, McCarty pottery that is stuffed in every one of those boxes, and I knock one over, and there's 1000s of dollars in damage. So I can't move anything. People think, Oh, just move it. And I'm like, Well, I, you know, you know, I might drop something, and then I'm out, you know, right for that because of that. So I can't move anything. So mainly, it's from the seller side. Just make stuff accessible, yeah, for the inspector, and then just fix a few things if you know that your sakes sinks leak, and just quit. If you, if you get it fixed for 10 bucks or not that much, not that little, of course. But if you get it fixed for 100 bucks, you know, get it fixed, and then that's one. Best thing you have to deal with, because I would assume most people aren't going to buy a house that has a leaking sink. They're always going to ask for that to be fixed. And I think you just have to look forward to the seller. Because, like, sure, you know you're having to sell, or you're having to fix this stuff that you're flagging, but I'm assuming, if you're selling, you're moving somewhere else, and you're going to want the same Exactly, yeah, you don't want, yeah, karma is always, you know, exactly. It's going to come back, you know. So you just want to treat it like you're going to be treated because you don't want, you don't want to hide something, and then it come down the road right back to you on the next house you move into. So is there
Speaker 1 20:33
anything kind of you want to talk about that we didn't cover, something that maybe people don't really know, you know, anything like that?
Speaker 2 20:38
Yeah. I mean, just, you know, I think that Realtors doing stuff just kind of prepare their clients for, you know, just tell them it's not as stressful, you know. Like, say, most people think going in and they think it's stressful, and they think, yeah, they just kind of like, Hey, we're gonna find they're gonna there's gonna be a stuff on this report. It's gonna be, you know, I'm not surprised if it's gonna be an 80 page report, 90 page report, right? I mean, I've had 200 page reports, you know, so, you know, and, and it's one of those things where some people just walk into a house, and they walk especially like you walk into 100 year old house. I mean, if I do 100 year old house over, right, over in Columbus or West Point, I mean, those are gonna be 200 300 page reports, you know, they're just massive, just because of the age of the home and stuff like that. And so you start getting into stuff like that, and you're just like, you know, people aren't prepared for them, you know. And so I think if they're just a little bit more prepared to understand that I got to put a fedora knobs loose, you know, that's, I still like to put it in there, you know. And that's it's going to take up just as much space is if is if the this electrical panel is completely wire wrong, and everything that door knob is just gonna be in there, just the same Yeah? So we have to document everything. And, you know, just don't get overwhelmed with it. And I'm happy to walk you through it. Yeah. You know, I have clients that come out to the houses when I do the report. You know, when I do the inspections and stuff, and I'm happy to walk you through it and go, you know, you would be surprised by how many people I walk out there. And maybe not, but I, you know, I say your fascia has some rot to it. And they go, I don't understand what that is. And, you know, and it goes, Okay, well, that, that piece of your house right there, is your fascia, yeah, and there's a little bit of wood rot on it, and so doing stuff like that, where I can walk them and go, you know, they go, I don't know if it was like that right there, yeah, that, that piece right there. That's wrong. That's bad. Same thing, you know, like, oh, this. You start using not technical terms, just terms people don't deal with every day. They just think, my house is my house, yeah. And so, you know, just having that, you know, that's actually a really good point. I haven't talked about that. So if I'm a buyer, or if I'm a seller, whatever, you know, and have a question about it, can I reach out to you? Yeah, buyers, totally, you know, can totally reach out to me? Yeah, you know, like I say, I try to help all my buyers along the way. You know, whether they some people aren't here, some people want to be there, some people don't want to be there. But I probably have, I mean, it's not a lot, but I have four or five, you know, clients that come out to inspections. I usually tend to tell them, like, hey, come at this time, because you can get bored. Yeah, if you show up, when I show up, you're gonna be really bored, because I'm gonna walk around that house a dozen, two dozen times, yeah, like, I'm gonna make a circle around that house, and when I go inside, I'm gonna walk from the front door to the back door to this, you know, I'm gonna and you're thinking and processing, and they're just like, What is this guy, you know, yeah. And they're just like, why is, you know? And I've had people be like, 30 minutes in, be like, I'm gonna go get something to eat or, you know, I'm gonna go down the road. Like, yeah. Like, yeah. Can you text me when you're almost done? It's like, yeah. So I usually tell people, like, hey, come at this time. And then we can spend, literally, it takes 10 minutes, most of the time, just to kind of walk them through, go this and this and this and this. And most of you know, you start getting questions of, you know, would you buy this house? You know? And those are, those are questions that I can't answer, yeah. You know for sure, I own too many houses as it is. I tell people like, No, I own. I have a couple of rental houses and stuff like that. And I don't, I don't want to own any more houses. I'm right. Those up to me. I'd sell them all, except for the one that I want I live in and even that, some days I think I should just sell that one. And so no, so it's, you know, you start getting questions like that, and those questions you can't answer, but, but, yeah. I mean, just, you know, the availability to come out or, like, say, I'll call you on the phone app. We have a lot of military here, and a lot of those guys will buy a house sight unseen, you know, I had one the other day. There's, like, I've never seen this house, you know. And we're not gonna see this house until we move into it, yeah, so we're kind of expecting you, so, you know, I'll FaceTime those guys when I'm walking through it, if they're available, or I can just call them at, you know, seven or eight o'clock, you know, that night, or something like that, if necessary, and walk them through it, or whatever they need to do.
Speaker 1 24:56
Yeah, you talked about this a little bit of. Hmm, but this is just much to help me out as a realtor. As anything talked about preparing them, you know, for what they're what they're getting into. Is there anything else that makes a realtor easier to deal with? No.
Speaker 2 25:12
I mean, you know, like, I say, you know, you know most realtors are doing their job, and you know that's what they're doing, and you know they're looking out for their client, and so, I mean, like, say, that's great. Like, say, mainly just, you know, realtors just preparing their client, just telling them, you know, it seems stressful, yeah. And most likely it's not. Sometimes it can be, you know, you start getting, you have these dream houses where, you know, you get under there and the whole underside of the house is covered in wood rot, and then you're like, well, that that did become stressful, but yeah, you know, we there's things we can do about it, or we can move on, or something like that. So No, most Realtors just looking out for their client and, and that's what, you know, what you're really looking for, yeah, you know, that is, you know, and I appreciate that, just as anybody's, you know, realtors looking out for their client, yeah,
Speaker 1 26:01
all right. Well, kind of a little bit shorter episode, but I do appreciate Mr. Jonathan coming on. Home Inspection is just a very part, very important part of the home buying and selling process, like we talked about. It protects the buyers. It, you know, gives the sellers an idea what you know, what they need to negotiate, what they need to fix. Where can people find you? Reach out to you. Yeah, so
Speaker 2 26:24
you know you can find me on Google. I'm McCain inspections, 662-744-0146, I think I'm still number one on Google for the area. I have 190 ish five star reviews.
Speaker 1 26:38
So, so yeah, I'm pretty that's awesome. You said that I had this written down, but you kind of threw me for a loop. So your inspections, you did almost double the amount that's in the days in a year, right? Yeah.
Speaker 2 26:51
I mean, so, you know, I mean, it's one of those where certain busy times of the year I might do, I'll work seven days a week. You know, you get kind of like the busy time around here seems to be March, April, May, springtime. So you'll be doing, I will work seven days a week, those, you know, just keep up, yeah. And then, you know, some, some months, you like, December, pretty slow. You might do 20, right? So, no, I mean, I've been in the business for over five years, and it's, I think I've done around 2500 inspections at this point. It's crazy. So I mean it, you know, you know, like, say, I started building houses recently, so that, you know, does it? So, something else we didn't talk about, but if you don't mind, we can is, uh, like, new homes. You know, you don't so you have to have a certification to do new homes here. So you just can't be a regular home inspector and do new homes, so you have to have a residential builder's license to do new homes, plus you have to carry another whole nother certificate for that as well. So I'm also kind of, you know, I have a residential builder's license. So I started to start using it, and, you know, this year and try to build a house, you know, one house a year, or something like that, right? So, but that, you know, like, say there's only a couple of us that hold that distinction. So, you know, if you sell a new house, realtor sells a new house, they have to call one of us with that distinction to inspect that new home. Yeah, that's really good to know. So, so, yeah, there's not everybody can do that, yeah. So yeah, but yeah, I'm, you know, I'm licensed in Mississippi. I'm licensed in Alabama as well. So I go over the board, not far over the border, Millport, Vernon, those little towns over there. A lot of Columbus Realtors sell houses over there. So I got that license just to, you know, help them out. Yeah, there's really nobody in that area. So I am licensed in both states. Like saying I'm new home certified in Mississippi. So I can do those as well. So, yeah, I mean, a lot of people building houses right now. So, yeah, yeah, a lot of people building houses, thoughtful, super popular with houses. And Columbus has kind of come along the way. And Tupelo is also, there's a lot of new houses being built in Tupelo and stuff like that. It's kind of, you know, everybody's trying to keep up with the demand around here. It's, you know, it's going crazy for new houses, you know, especially I say Starfleet is just really, it's, I feel like there's just constant new houses being built over there. Yeah. So, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1 29:13
Well, I appreciate you coming on as realtors. We, we can't really just steer people to one home inspector, but yeah, they send a list, so I will put all of Mr. McCain's contact information in the description below. Make sure you give him a holler if you need him. Thanks. You.