Strout Home Inspections

Strout Home Inspections is a small pre-purchase inspection outfit based in Salem, run by Peter Strout, with four employees per its Better Business Bureau profile — the company also does business as Peter Strout Gen Contracting. Reviewers keep coming back to how much attention the inspector pays to old houses. Writing in 2025, one buyer described the inspector arriving before the appointment to start the exterior walkthrough early, then working through a home over 100 years old with what they called meticulous attention and useful context along the way. Another customer, writing in 2024, praised broad knowledge across building trades and called the communication straightforward — though that review names the inspector as Travis, while BBB lists Peter Strout as owner, so it isn't clear whether one person handled both jobs or the company has more than one inspector on staff. Its BBB profile carries an A+ grade, though the company is not BBB-accredited. With only a handful of reviews on file, the written record is thin — worth asking who will actually be doing the walkthrough before booking.