8 Points Home Inspection

8 Points Home Inspection is one inspector: J. David Riddle, working the Massachusetts North Shore and into Boston. Buyer inspections, pre-listing walkthroughs and new-construction checks are the core of it, with radon, termite and well-water testing alongside. The company says Riddle came out of design work and construction project management before he got licensed, and puts his run at more than ten years and over 2,500 inspections. The thing his clients keep describing isn't the report — it's the teaching. A homeowner writing this summer said he left them well-informed about the entire house, not only what needed attention but how the place actually works. In a 2025 review, a buyer in Salem who called three inspectors before picking one described the same thing from the other side: attention to detail, and a calm manner that made sure they understood what he was telling them. That pattern runs back years. A 2022 reviewer said they had used him on three separate purchases and would again. A 2021 review focused on the paperwork instead: pictures, descriptions and recommendations laid out clearly enough to follow even if you weren't at the inspection. What to know before calling: every credential here is the company's own claim. Its site lists a Massachusetts home inspector registration, #777, along with ASHI certification, an NRPP radon measurement certification and a wood-destroying-insect certification through the New England Pest Management Association. None of those were confirmed against a state registry during this scan, and the Massachusetts number is worth a minute on the state's licensee lookup before you book. The written history is also small. Four reviews spread across 2021 to 2026, one of them in the past six months, all on Google. A couple of references turn up elsewhere on the open web, but they are the same customer's comment mirrored on a directory and its German-language twin — one voice, not two. Right call for a buyer who wants to walk the property alongside the inspector and come away actually understanding it; the note that repeats across five years is someone who slows down and explains. Confirm registration #777 with the state, and ask up front whether radon, termite or water testing needs to be booked with the inspection.