Strout Home Inspections

A buyer writing in June 2025 asked for a Sunday morning because work made weekdays impossible, and Strout scheduled it — then the inspector turned up before the clients did and had already started outside. That review is the clearest picture of how this outfit works. The Better Business Bureau lists it as Strout Inspections at 29 Intervale Rd in Salem, Massachusetts, owned by Peter Strout, with four employees and an alternate name of Peter Strout Gen Contracting. The profile carries an A+ grade and is explicitly not BBB accredited — two separate facts about the same page, neither of which is a customer verdict. Old houses come up in both accounts on file. The 2025 buyer was purchasing a home over a hundred years old and credited the inspector with going item by item and explaining the significance of each finding rather than just listing them. A 2024 reviewer pointed at the same thing from another angle, naming Travis and citing knowledge across the building trades and old houses — worth noting that the BBB profile names Peter Strout as the owner, so ask who will actually walk your house. The honest limit here is volume. Three reviews are on file, from 2024 and 2025, and two of them are the same customer's account showing up on two sites — so this comes down to a small number of voices, all positive, with nothing written in the last year. For an older Massachusetts house where you want someone who will explain what they are seeing, the two accounts point the right way. Confirm the inspector's name, whether weekend slots are still offered, and what the report looks like before you book.