Andrea as Herself

Please welcome Drea Carr to the home inspection family at a CLOSER look, inc! Drea will be our new receptionist on Monday’s and Tuesday’s to greet you with a smile. Drea is studying human services at Evangel and her husband in is Seminary. She is very easy to talk to and I hope you all enjoy her as much as we do. Hello Drea!

Congratulations are in order on the new home you have found. Now you’re looking for a certified home inspector, and of course there are many from whom to choose here in Springfield, Missouri. a CLOSER look home inspections was founded with the philosophy that we are consultants whom you hire to evaluate and report on the condition of your property investment. We are not the house police and we do not pass or fail properties.

We provide our professional opinion on the real condition of a property.

This gives you the information that you need to make an informed decision on the purchase of your property. We think you’ll find our philosophy of doing business sets us apart from our competition. This starts at the basics of our services when we designed our inspections to provide you with all of the information that you need by clearly defining the difference between material defects and maintenance recommendations right in the report. This is an issue that you will have to understand when purchasing in Springfield Missouri due the GSBOR real estate contract. We go the extra mile to help ensure that you receive that information in a professional way, and follow-up with superior communication. Even after 5 years in the business, we are still leading our competition in information services offered to our clients!

You can read a little more from this article, “What is a home inspection?” or you may be interested in what a generalist opinion means to you.

Contact us at (417) 890-8500 if you would like to set up a home inspection today!

You may also be interested in our credentials to find out why our customers call us the best inspectors in Springfield, Missouri.

I went to Kelley Police & Tactical Supply on Sunshine (Map) to get another UltraStinger, but found the Stinger DS LED light instead. This flashlight does not have as many lumens output as the UltraStinger, but it is very bright. Also, it uses an LED light bulb, so the light is much more white as opposed to the very yellow cast of the UltraStinger’s halogen light. Here’s the best part, it is lighter, smaller, recharges faster, has a 7 hour continuous run time on a single charge, and the bulb has a 50,000 hour lifespan – all for around $100. I had a chance to try this one out in a crawlspace yesterday and I was very impressed. The light was very bright in a crawlspace and an attic, and I was able to see everything normally. I always found that the yellow light from the UltraStinger made termite mud tubes blend in with wood and other dark brown materials making it harder to detect. However, with the white light of the Stinger DS LED – I have no problems with contrast. I highly recommend this flashlight to any inspector.

You should remember to always get an inspection of your property after a storm like this, especially your roof. You will need this documentation from a a professional, like a certified home inspector, to give to your insurance agent for property damage claims. If you are not working with a property insurance agent at the moment, I would recommend giving Don Woodward at American Family Insurance a call to give you a quote.

If you would like to get a roof only inspection or exterior storm damage inspection, please call us at (417) 890-8500 to schedule today.

and we want to show it off to you

We hope that you all enjoy the look of our new website. We have been working hard to bring you the best web experience possible! We tried look that we thought would be great, but it ended up being a little hard to read and the information was a bit hidden. We hope this new look will be easier to use for all of you. Please leave comments if you have anything to share.

This is what Cheryl Willis says about a CLOSER look home inspections.

Thank you Cheryl!

Sean O’Rear

Now honestly speaking – that was a severe case and I do not find major effects like that too often, but in this case – a simple annual visual inspection would have caught the problem while it was still a $75 fix. Waiting until they sold their home made that an $850 dollar fix + a $75 dollar fix. I am a proponent of checking out your crawlspace every year. However, if you don’t want to do it yourself – or you are not sure what you are looking at – we provide an annual inspection service for $99 that will look for water, plumbing, settling, termite, and any other defect that may exist in your crawlspace. Give us a call today at (417) 890-8500.

I apologize to anyone who sent a form and it went unanswered, but it is working perfectly now.