FIELD SERVICE · PRE-OFFER READ · NO CHARGE
Before you offer, get the inspector's read.
You found the house. Before you write the number, paste the listing here — a licensed California inspector reads the photos, the disclosures, and the parcel's risk layers, and sends you the red flags the tour didn't show you.
TYPICAL TURNAROUND: 1 BUSINESS DAY · YOUR LINK IS NOT SHARED WITH ANY AGENT
214
Memos filed to date
3.2
Avg red flags per listing
31
Buyers who walked away
$8,400
Median repair cost surfaced
What the read covers
Three things we check that a tour can't show you
The roof and the water
Age vs. listing claims, patch patterns in the photos, drainage that will show up in an inspection report — before you pay for one.
The ground it sits on
Wildfire severity zone, fault proximity, slope and expansive-soil flags for that specific parcel — the California trio that decides insurability.
The listing itself
Days on market vs. the band, price-cut history, and what the wording is stepping around. Listings talk; we translate.
Specimen
What the memo actually looks like
No score out of 100, no traffic light. A short, plain-English field memo: what we saw, how much it likely costs, what to ask, and whether we'd keep walking. This one killed an offer — the buyer thanked us twice.
DETAILS ALTERED TO PROTECT THE (RELIEVED) BUYER
PRE-OFFER READ · BYO-2606-114 1 BUSINESS DAY
SUBJECT: 3BD/2BA · LISTED $689,000 · DOM 41 · ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮, CA
- FLAGPhoto 8: efflorescence on garage slab edge + fresh paint band on the stem wall. Classic moisture-path cover-up. Budget a drainage read: $4–12k if the grade is wrong.
- FLAGParcel sits in a CAL FIRE High severity zone; two carriers non-renewed on this street since 2024. Get an insurance quote BEFORE the offer, not during escrow.
- ASK"Roof replaced 2021" — permit record shows a partial reroof (south slopes only). Ask for the invoice and which slopes.
- CLEARPrice-cut history is orderly (one cut, −2.9%, day 28) — no panic signal. Band DOM is 39; this home is not stale, it's priced early.
VERDICT: OFFER ONLY WITH DRAINAGE CONTINGENCY + INSURANCE QUOTE IN HAND. WE'D OPEN AT −4% AND HOLD.
Who uses it
Three kinds of buyers, one instrument
MOST COMMON
First-time buyers
You've toured four homes and they all look fine. That's the problem — everything looks fine at a showing. The memo tells you what a trained eye sees in the same photos you scrolled past.
REMOTE
Out-of-area & relocation
Buying into Temecula from San Diego, or into California from out of state? You can't drive by every Saturday. We're your eyes on the ground before you spend a flight or a weekend.
VOLUME
Investors & flippers
You already know what a roof costs. What you want is speed: the three findings that change your rehab number, within one business day, on every candidate property.
Process
How it works
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Paste the listing link
Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, or an MLS sheet — any public URL works.
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We read it like an inspection
A licensed inspector reviews the photos, disclosures, parcel risk layers, and market position. Human read, not a bot score.
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The red-flag memo lands in your inbox
Within one business day: what would concern us, what to ask the listing agent, and what to have inspected first.
THE MEMO IS AN OPINION FROM A LICENSED INSPECTOR, NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR A FULL PHYSICAL INSPECTION OR A CMA
Questions
Asked before, answered straight
Is it really free? What's the catch?+
Free, no obligation. The honest business logic: some buyers who get a memo ask us to represent them or book a full inspection. Most don't, and that's fine — the memo is how we prove the read is real before you trust us with anything bigger.
Will you contact the listing agent or seller?+
Never. The read is built entirely from the public listing, public records, and parcel risk data. Nobody knows you asked.
How is this different from the inspection I'll pay for later?+
A physical inspection opens the electrical panel and walks the roof — nothing replaces it. The memo happens BEFORE you're in contract: it tells you whether this house deserves an offer at all, and what to have the physical inspection chase hardest.
What if the listing has almost no photos?+
Thin listings are themselves a signal, and we say so. We still read the parcel: wildfire zone, fault distance, permit history, prior sale and price-cut record all come from public data, photos or not.
Do you read listings outside your markets?+
Anywhere in California. Deepest context in Riverside and San Diego counties, where we hold tract-level inspection files.
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