FOUNDATIONS HOME INSPECTION
(605) 877-4563 

Why choose us for your home inspection needs?

Our customers come first.  In our experience, good customer service is the key to a successful business, and this is a rare quality to find these days.  We are a husband and wife team who enjoy putting our customers first and we truly care about relationships with our customers.  We strive to serve wholeheartedly and communication is our priority.  We are here to brighten your day and give you the peace of mind that you are receiving honest and professional service.  Following our inspection, we will do a walk-through with you which usually lasts one hour, depending on what we find and what kind of questions you may have.  Even buyers from out of town will receive a walk-through over the phone.  We find that this oral presentation is a great benefit in learning about the current issues within the home, as well as educate you regarding routine maintenance needed for the future.  Please call for pricing which is based on square footage, location and age of the home.  Our prices begin at $300.  We offer discounts to customers who pay at the time of the inspection, and we also offer discounts to active and retired military, police, and firefighters. 

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Our services are unique.  Home inspections are typically for the home selling and buying process because often a mortgage lender will require one.  However, we perform home inspection services for various scenarios.  Our services provide a unbiased view of the home, offering both problem areas, maintenance areas and positive attributes.  Please see "Our Sample Report" link.  Our services not only benefit the home buyer or the home seller, but even those homeowners whose warranties are about to expire and they need documentation of any repairs that are needed.  We also offer home inspections for those who may have concerns about their home regarding routine maintenance.  We believe if your teeth warrant a checkup and your car gets maintained, why not have your home examined?  Unless home owners are maintaining their home on their own, they should have their home inspected every 2-3 years.  It’s a small price to pay now, instead of paying higher repair costs later.  We also offer re-inspection services for a nominal fee when the seller completes any suggested repairs to the home and we add photographic and written documentation to the seller's original report, showing what repairs were made - a great feature if you plan on selling your home and providing a completed home inspection report for your potential buyers up front.  We find that the pre-sale inspection gives buyers the feeling of honesty and moves the sale along much faster.  Lastly, we offer radon testing (please see our "Radon Testing" link), and we also offer water testing.

Our software will amaze you.  Your final home inspection report is available generally within 24 hours from your walk-through.  You and/or your agent will be provided with a username and password to access your report online.  Once at our website, simply log in on the left-hand side of the screen.  HomeGauge provides highlighted sections as you move through the report and clickable links from the table of contents to view a certain section of interest; for example, when a real estate agent prefers to only read the general summary and desires to skip the photographic portion of the report.  Another great feature is that you can print or forward the report from the same page.  If you are a home seller and have a pre-sale inspection, we can make your report "public," and we provide you and your agent with a link to the report in which you can attach to your home sale listing online.  This will create great advantage above the other homes out there on the market.

Our reports are detailed.  They are easy to interpret through photographic documentation, diagrams, summaries, and all the needed specifications of the home.  Your report will be best viewed online, but you will have the option to print directly from the website.  Once printed, our average report contains 50+ pages of pictures and documentation of any concerns we may find as well as positive attributes and preventative maintenance areas of the home.  Because we are members of InterNACHI, we do inspect more items than what the South Dakota Real Estate Commission requires us to inspect.  Please refer to our "Standards of Practice" link for more information.  In order for our company to deem an item "repair or replace" within our reports, the deficiency must be a safety issue, a structural issue, or an issue that can cause a structural issue.

Our inspections are thorough.  We take our time to inspect, spending between 2-3 hours per inspection on average and then an additional hour with you during our one-on-one walkthrough.  We treat each home as if it were our own, leaving no trace or mess behind.  On average, we take 200 photos for our documentation and use approximately 50-75 of them within the report.  Therefore, we recommend that home owners make their homes as photogenic as possible.  Not only do we take pictures of the problem areas, but we provide photos of appliances and cover shots of areas such as the exterior, garage, kitchen, living room, dining room, bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.  Please see "Our Sample Report" link.

Our schedule is flexible.  Schedule your home inspection by phone at (605) 877-4563.  We provide our services Monday through Saturday.  Please note that we require a signed Inspection Agreement in order to perform the inspection, as well as a signed Radon Agreement if the home is being tested.  Please DO NOT use the agreement samples here at our website, as we need to print specific information on your agreement before signing.

Our education is continuous.  We are members of InterNACHI and receive continued education, keeping up with new construction regulations and always increasing our knowledge about the home inspection industry.

We are insured and licensed.  We carry errors and omissions and also general liability insurance.  Copies of our policies are available upon request.  We are licensed with the State of South Dakota Real Estate Commission and we are governed by both theirs and InterNACHI's standards of practice.  We are also an affiliate member of the Black Hills Association of Realtors.

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