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Hosted by Ian Robertson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 204 episodes
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A weekly home inspection podcast hosted by the founders of Inspector Toolbelt - the premier home inspection software. Get tips, insights, strategies, and more from our hosts and guests to help give your home inspection business a boost. Ian and Beon are property inspection and tech industry veterans with over 20 years of experience each. Sometimes they even stay on point :)
Ian Robertson hosts Inspector Toolbelt Talk, a business show with 204 episodes published.
Vacations are supposed to feel like freedom, but for a solo home inspector they can feel like a financial penalty plus a week of anxiety. We talk through why time off hits inspection company owners so hard: the phone sti
Your home inspection business can be busy and still be fragile. If revenue depends on one-time clients and the owner’s calendar, what happens when you want to step back, hire more people, or sell? That question drives a
You can be a highly skilled home inspector and still lose the room in the first two minutes. That’s the uncomfortable truth we tackle here, through a simple idea with deep impact: “read the room,” or what Confucius calle
“Inspectacles” might be the funniest name in home inspection tech right now, but it points to a serious shift: AI is accelerating how inspections get done, how reports get written, and how buyers compare one inspector to
A home inspection report is only as strong as your ability to stand behind every line of it and AI is testing that in real time. We pick up a thread from our conversation about legal issues with veteran inspector and leg
A furnace dies, a roof leaks, a heat pump quits during a blizzard and somehow the home inspector becomes the villain. We sit down with home inspector attorney Joe Ferry, who’s responded to roughly 4,000 claims, to explai
“We made how much in 40 minutes?” That question hits different when you remember what a great home inspection actually does. We unpack a story from Jay Wen: a septic inspection goes sideways fast, the system is flooded,
People aren’t magically “worse” overnight, but the stress level in public life is undeniably higher, and home inspections sit right in the blast zone. We kick back for another Drinking With Jay conversation and get blunt
Your phone rings while you’re in an attic, your inbox is full of scheduling questions, and you still need to train new inspectors without burning your week. That’s where AI can actually help, but only if you use it for s
Clients don’t judge your inspection against your standards of practice. They judge it against the story in their head and that story is often wrong. We talk through one of the most overlooked skills in home inspection: m
Most inspectors think liability is solved by one thing: being right. But lawsuits don’t run on righteousness, they run on economics. If it’s cheap to chase you, even a shaky complaint can snowball. If it’s expensive to f
A single software change can ripple through an entire industry, and that’s exactly why we open with the Spectora Fixel blowup. When an ad appears before a client can download an inspection report, the immediate question
Growing a home inspection company is supposed to feel like progress, but sometimes it feels like you are sprinting just to stay upright. We sit down again with Mike Ortiz, one of our favorite returning guests, to unpack
Someone is going to get emotional during a home inspection. It might be a client who is stressed, an agent who is defensive, a contractor who disagrees, or a family member who wants to argue about a minor detail. When th
Commercial inspections aren’t a bigger version of home inspections—they’re a different ocean. We sit down with Lance Kaufman of Focus Building Inspections to unpack what separates a true commercial practice from an ancil
Looking for the “one big thing” that fills your calendar? We make the case that there isn’t one—and that’s good news. Real growth for home inspectors comes from a thousand small moments: the first second someone sees you
Feeling the grind without the gains? We sat down with Mark from Inspector Empire Builder to unpack why so many home inspection pros hit invisible ceilings—and how to break through them with identity, focus, and smarter s
What if success isn’t about the money, but about the engine driving you to chase it? We open up about the uncomfortable truth of trauma-fueled ambition, why “validation loops” push many entrepreneurs to grind past reason
If solar on a listing makes everyone nervous, this conversation will become your new playbook. We sit down with Spark Solar’s Corey Vanderpool to unpack a low‑risk, high‑value way for home inspectors to add solar inspect
The ground is shifting under home inspectors, and the real threat isn’t a gadget—it’s losing control of our craft and our clients’ trust. We open up about a clear pledge to never sell client data and why that line in the
Beau Brown
Certified Professional Inspector · C and H Inspections
1 appearance on this show
Lance Kaufman
Focus Building Inspections
1 appearance on this show
Mark
Inspector Empire Builder
1 appearance on this show
Corey Vanderpool
Spark Solar
1 appearance on this show
Carrie Cheek
Rosie Home Inspections
1 appearance on this show
Mark Hummel
Inspector Empire Builder
1 appearance on this show
Tony
Villa Property Inspections
1 appearance on this show
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Inspector Toolbelt Talk is hosted by Ian Robertson. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 204 episodes.
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