Clients Not At The Inspection?
For all of us that want our clients at the inspection. This may help motivate them to spend some time with us so we can maybe teach them something about their new home.
View ArticleBranding Your Business in 2015: Top 5 Ways of how to Do it
Happy New Year from Tap Inspect! Okay grant it, folks make New Years Resolutions all the time and by mid-March, the self promises are broken. However, this year, as a business owner, try to keep one...
View Article5 Mistakes Not to Make When Hiring an Inspector
It is so nice to see a Realtor who gets it. This fine lady wants her clients to have the most value from the inspection and help the inspector get his job done.
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How Buying my Next iPhone Got Very Complicated
It’s that time again for me. Time to get a new phone. Argh. My iPhone 5 has served me well for the last two years but is now showing its age. The battery doesn’t seem to last as long and it has its...
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Why Won’t Your AT&T iPhone Work on Verizon?
So your 2 year AT&T contact is up and you want to switch to Verizon. Better yet, you want to hand your old phone down to one of your kids but they are on on of the low cost carriers. Why can’t you...
View ArticleHouse that Fails FHA Inspection
For every inspector who has pulled up to a home and asked themselves ‘Does it take an expert to inspect this place?’
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Is a 2 Year Cellular Contract and Cheaper than Pay As You Go?
Hopefully you have been following this series of posts describing my journey of purchasing a new iPhone. This time I want to focus on the cost of actually purchasing the hardware or as the cellular...
View ArticleRussian Chimney Sweep
Who knew American ingenuity was alive and well in Russia? Will this guy put chimney sweeps out of business?
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How I Unlocked My iPhone and Lived to Tell About It
Now that my 2 year contract is up I am thinking about what to do with my old iPhone once I get my next replacement. One of the biggest issues I need to address is unlocking it. An unlocked iPhone is...
View ArticlePlumbing Disaster Slideshow
Yes Tap Inspectors, we have all seen this and worse. I guess these fixes seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Getting your Infrared On
One of the more common questions we get is how to get infrared photos into a Tap Inspect report. The short answer is: Once you infrared image is on your device’s camera roll, you insert it just like...
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How I survived the AT&T outage of 2015
On August 4th of 2015 much of Kentucky, Tennessee and also parts of Georgia and Alabama lost AT&T voice and data service. This was not an isolated temporary event. This was widespread outage that...
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5 Tricks to Getting Reports Done at the Inspection
When I talk to other inspectors they seemed amazed that I can finish my reports while at the job. My clients and agents love having the report immediately so they can get on with the transaction. I...
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How we hoped for the best but planned for the worst
Every large site, and many small sites, on the internet will get attacked at some point. The reasons vary from something as trivial as a bad comment left on a forum, political beliefs, or even a...
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3 Questions to Ask When Buying Tech Gloves
Sometimes it’s hard to keep warm if you’re working out in the field. Especially if you rely on Tap Inspect or other apps on your iPhone or iPad. Your fingers will freeze! Many people will look to tech...
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How to save another 15 to 20 minutes per report
We are always trying to find ways to be more efficient and to finish our reports a little quicker here at Tap Inspect. Starting with version 4.1.10 we added the ability to save the values of your...
View ArticleMark Up Photos In Tap Inspect
Our most requested feature has been, hand down, the ability to add circles or arrows to a photo inside of Tap Inspect. I have to admit, up to a little while ago I just did not understand what all the...
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3 Ways to Get Photos onto your iPad
Using an iPhone to take your photos and sharing via your iCloud Photo Library may be the easiest way to view photos on an iPad but not everyone likes using an iPhone. We have a number of Tap Inspect...
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Why We Do It
Anyone that has done it knows that growing a business is hard work. Its is a special club of people that have risked safety and predicability to build something that they hope makes the world a little...
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2 Ways of Doing a Multifamily Home Inspection Report on the Tap Inspect App
After you have been doing inspections for a while, everyone eventually gets called to do some kind of multi family property report. These kinds of reports a really similar to what we do every day but...
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