Charter Home Inspection

Charter Home Inspection is Eric Blatz's one-person practice out of South Hamilton, covering Essex and Middlesex counties. Before starting it, the company says Eric spent more than a decade at a larger Northeast inspection firm — and the 39 Google reviews on file, every one of them five stars going back to 2022, read like that experience showing up in the details. The reviews keep circling the same handful of things. He walks buyers through what he's finding as he goes rather than handing over a cold report — in a January 2026 review, one buyer said he 'revealed important details about our home that we wouldn't have seen ourselves', and in a 2022 review, a buyer who was a carpenter by trade said Eric caught a malfunctioning heating system they'd have missed themselves. Reports tend to move fast: a January 2026 reviewer got theirs the same day, and a 2024 reviewer had one back within 24 hours by email. The findings carry weight, too — in a 2024 review, one buyer said Eric's inspection turned up enough to negotiate a much lower purchase price. He gets into the spaces other inspectors skip: a 2022 review described him working every crawl space and attic access on a job that produced a 40-page report. Buyers come back. One reviewer wrote in 2022 that this was their second time hiring Charter; another, also in 2022, described commissioning two inspections from Eric directly; a third, in early 2022, called it their third home purchase using him. Recent activity is thinner — three reviews in the past six months — but none has broken the pattern: zero negative reviews across the full 39. Eric Blatz's Massachusetts home inspector license (No. 475) is active and registry-verified. Beyond the standard walkthrough, the company's own site lists radon testing, water quality testing, and wood-destroying-insect inspections as services it offers. Charter suits buyers who want an inspector with the field experience to catch what a newer inspector might not, and who's willing to crawl into the spaces most people skip. With a record this uniformly positive, the more useful question before booking is simply availability for your closing timeline.