Goldeneye Home Inspections LLC

Goldeneye Home Inspections is a one-person, family-owned outfit in Lynn run by Derek, whose Massachusetts home inspector license (#1057) is active on the state registry. The company says it's been doing inspections on the North Shore since 2010, with more than 2,000 completed, and Google backs that up with a 5.0-star average across 112 ratings. What comes through in review after review is the walkthrough itself — Derek narrating what he's finding as he goes, in plain language, rather than handing over a report and leaving. One recent buyer described him stepping back to document an uneven floor the moment he arrived. Older accounts describe the same instinct for catching things a buyer wouldn't think to ask about: in a 2023 review, one reviewer said he flagged open permits she hadn't considered, and in a 2024 review another credited his find of a faulty water heater with giving them leverage to negotiate a replacement with the seller. A realtor who hired him personally credited his termite expertise, in a December 2025 review, with talking her out of a home purchase before a hidden problem became her problem. Reports tend to land fast — same day or within a few hours in several accounts. He's also praised for making room for tight timelines: in 2022 and 2023 reviews, customers described a Friday-night booking request answered and scheduled for Monday, and a condo inspection turned around for the very next morning. More than one reviewer had already used him before and came back for a second house — one first-time-buyer household said as much in a December 2025 review. The written record runs from 2021 through mid-2026 — 40 reviews across three sources, every one five stars, with no negative account anywhere in the file. Derek's own site lists him as a Board Certified Master Inspector and InterNACHI member, and the company also offers radon testing and wood-destroying-insect (termite) inspections alongside the general home inspection. For a Massachusetts home purchase — especially a first one, where knowing what to ask matters as much as the inspection itself — Goldeneye is built for exactly that: someone who walks you through the house instead of just checking boxes. Worth confirming which add-on tests, like radon or termite, you want folded into the visit before he arrives.