Opportunities / Inspection and testing
Class 1Home inspection
Fits best: a detail-obsessed communicator with construction knowledge.
Pros
- ✓Low cost and good margin
- ✓Works all year
Cons
- !License required; tied to the housing market
- !Little repeat business, so marketing never stops
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 12 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 25 jobs a month. Add radon testing and mitigation for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add radon, sewer scope and thermal imaging.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Add radon, sewer scope and thermal imaging.
The details
- Vehicle
- Car
- Repeat customers
- Low
- Licensing
- High
- Season
- Follows the housing market
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
State license in many states; E&O insurance.
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*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (25), times 12 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: EntrepX working estimate.