Your Inspection
Delivering Fair and Impartial Assessments to our Clients
Professional Home Inspection Services You Can Trust
Whether you’re buying a home, preparing to sell your property, or simply maintaining your home, Geronimo Home Inspections delivers reliable, high-quality service that will better equip you as a homeowner. We are committed to delivering a thorough and educational experience.
We’re proud members of the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI), and we follow their Standards of Practice while serving our new community in Missouri. We also bring forward trusted best practices from our time operating in Texas, where we maintain an active Professional Inspector license through the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC).
Think of it as an InterNACHI Plus approach: an approach that only benefits you as the client.
What to Expect During Your Inspection
Before the inspection, clients are invited to share any specific areas of concern or interest they’d like us to focus on during the walkthrough. Customarily, you’ll have the opportunity to join us for a final walk-through and summary of findings during the last hour of your scheduled inspection. A standard home inspection is usually scheduled for a four-hour window for completion.
Within 24 hours of your walk-through, you’ll receive a detailed, mobile-friendly, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-navigate home inspection report. The report is delivered in both HTML and PDF formats, complete with photos and descriptions of everything we observed. Not only does this report give you a clear, visual summary of the home, but it also empowers you to make informed and confident decisions.
What's Inspected?
Geronimo Home Inspections thoroughly inspects and reports on the following:
Structural Systems
Foundations; Grading and Drainage; Roof Covering Materials; Roof Structures and Attics; Walls (Interior and Exterior); Ceilings and Floors; Doors (Interior and Exterior; Windows; Stairways (Interior and Exterior); Fireplaces and Chimneys; Porches, Balconies, Decks, and Carports.
Plumbing Systems
Plumbing Supply, Distribution Systems, and Fixtures; Drains, Wastes, and Vents; Water Heating Equipment; Hydro-Massage Therapy Equipment; Gas Distribution Systems, and Gas Appliances.
Electrical Systems
Service Entrance and Panels; Branch Circuits, Connected Devices, and Fixtures
Appliances
Dishwashers; Food Waste Disposers; Range Hood and Exhaust Systems; Ranges, Cooktops, and Ovens; Microwave Ovens; Mechanical Exhaust Vents and Bathroom Heaters; Garage Door Operators; Dryer Exhaust Systems
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems
Heating Equipment; Cooling Equipment; Duct Systems, Chases, and Vents
Optional Systems
Landscape Irrigation (Sprinkler Systems); Swimming Pools, Spas, Hot Tubs, and Equipment; Outbuildings; Private Water Wells; Private Sewage Disposal Systems; Other Built-in Appliances.
Important Contractual Exclusions and Limitations
PURPOSE OF INSPECTION
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INSPECTOR
This inspection follows the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Standards of Practice (SOPs), which dictate the requirements for a real estate inspection.
- The inspector IS required to:
- Inspect only those components and conditions that are present, visible, and accessible at the time of the inspection.
- Indicate whether each item was inspected, not inspected, or not present.
- Indicate an item as Deficient (D) if a condition exists that adversely and materially affects the performance of a system or component, OR constitutes a hazard to life, limb, or property as specified by the SOPs.
- Explain the inspector’s findings in the corresponding section in the body of the report form.
- The inspector IS NOT required to:
- Identify all potential hazards.
- Turn on decommissioned equipment, systems, utilities, or apply an open flame or light a pilot to operate any appliance.
- Climb over obstacles, move furnishings, or stored items.
- Prioritize or emphasize the importance of one deficiency over another.
- Provide follow-up services to verify that proper repairs have been made.
- Inspect the system or component listed under the optional section of the SOPs
RESPONSIBILTY OF THE CLIENT
While items identified as Deficient (D) in an inspection report DO NOT obligate any party to make repairs or take other actions, if any further evaluations are needed, it is the responsibility of the client to obtain further evaluations and/ or cost estimates from qualified service professionals regarding any items reported as Deficient (D). It is recommended that any additional evaluations and/ or cost estimates take place before the expiration of any contractual time limitations, such as option periods.
Please note: Evaluations performed by service professionals in response to items reported as ‘Deficient’ (D) on the report may reveal additional deficiencies that were not present, visible, or accessible at the time of the inspection. Any repairs made after the date of the inspection may render information contained in this report obsolete or invalid.
REPORT LIMITATIONS
This report is provided for the benefit of the named client and is based on observations made by the named inspector on the date the inspection was performed. Only those items specifically noted as being inspected on the report were inspected.
This inspection IS NOT:
- A technically exhaustive inspection of the structure, its systems, or its components and may not reveal all deficiencies.
- An inspection to verify compliance with any building codes.
- An inspection to verify compliance with manufacturer’s installation instructions for any system or component and DOES NOT imply insurability or warrantability of the structure or its components.
NOTICE CONCERNING HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS, DEFICIENCIES, AND CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS
Conditions may be present in your home that did not violate building codes or common practices in effect when the home was constructed but are considered hazardous by today’s standards. Such conditions that were part of the home prior to the adoption of any current codes prohibiting them may not be required to be updated to meet current code requirements. However, if it can be reasonably determined that they are present at the time of the inspection, the potential for injury or property loss from these conditions is significant enough to require inspectors to report them as Deficient (D).
Examples of such hazardous conditions include:
• Malfunctioning, improperly installed, or missing ground fault circuit protection (GFCI) devices and arc-fault (AFCI) devices.
• Ordinary glass in locations where modern construction techniques call for safety glass.
• Malfunctioning or lack of fire safety features such as smoke alarms, fire-rated doors in certain locations, and functional emergency escape and rescue openings in bedrooms.
• Malfunctioning carbon monoxide alarms.
• Excessive spacing between balusters on stairways and porches.
• Improperly installed appliances.
• Improperly installed or defective safety devices.
• Lack of electrical bonding and grounding.
• Lack of bonding on gas piping, including corrugated stainless-steel tubing (CSST).