Shoveltown Home Inspections LLC

Shoveltown Home Inspections is a North Easton, MA team — Dean Murphy, Foster Kelly, and Carlos Moreno are among the named inspectors — with a Massachusetts home inspector license (#802) verified active against the state registry, a BBB A+ grade, and a genuinely large review base: 749 Google ratings at 5★, built on a written record of 430 reviews running from 2021 to today. The pattern holds across hundreds of reviews no matter which inspector shows up: thorough, patient, and willing to walk buyers through every finding in plain language. Several reviews single out the drone work — flying over roofs and chimneys to catch problems a ladder can't reach — as something that sets the company apart, and in a January 2026 review a customer described Dean noticing they hadn't requested radon testing, mentioning it without pressure, and the basement coming back positive; the customer credited that catch with changing their decision on the property. Reports tend to arrive fast, several reviews mentioning same-day or within-24-hour turnaround with photos included. Buyer's agents and realtors show up among the reviewers too — one describes Shoveltown as a trusted call for client inspections. There is one clear low note worth knowing: a 2022 review calling the inspection inept and blaming it for tens of thousands of dollars in costs, though it doesn't describe what was actually missed or how. It's the rare exception among hundreds of otherwise positive reviews — 64 in just the last six months, none of them negative. For a pre-purchase inspection anywhere on the South Shore, especially an older home or one where roof and chimney access is tricky, this looks like one of the more thoroughly equipped, well-documented options — a verified license, real volume, and a track record that's held up over years.