Homestead Report Home Inspection

Homestead Report Home Inspection is a one-inspector home inspection firm working out of 208 Pike St in Tewksbury, and its Porch profile puts its start at 1996 — three decades of buyers' inspections in the Merrimack Valley, if that date holds. It is also a member of the Tewksbury Chamber of Commerce. Beyond home inspections, Porch lists chimney, roof, electrical, HVAC and flood-and-water-damage inspections — the components a buyer most wants examined before closing. Worth being clear on what that means: this is an inspection practice, so it reports on those systems rather than repairing them. The track record readable here is thin. Two comments, both from 2022, both five stars, and both praising the same thing — an inspector who worked slowly through the whole house and explained what he was seeing as he went. Porch separately shows a 4.4 average across 31 online reviews it has aggregated, though it publishes none of the text, so there is no way to read whatever pulled that number below five. A reasonable call for a straightforward single-family buyer's inspection if you want someone who will walk you through the findings rather than hand over a PDF. Before booking, ask for the inspector's Massachusetts home inspector licence number and a sample report, and confirm what the fee covers — radon, water testing and septic are usually priced separately.