Bay City, MI

Home inspectors in Bay City, MI.

Big Moose runs a team of twenty-five certified inspectors across Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Your Bay City inspection is assigned to one who works this region — not to whoever happens to be free — and every one of them reports to the same standard.

  • InterNACHI certified
  • AHIT trained
  • E&O insured
  • General liability insured
  • Inspecting since 2004

25Certified inspectors

2004Inspecting since

48Hours to your report

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Who turns up

The person, not just the company.

Tom Ruemenapp founded Big Moose in 2004 and still oversees the inspection team directly. That is not a line on an about page: it means the person who trained your Bay City inspector is reachable, and that the standard is enforced by someone who still performs inspections himself.

Call the office and you reach a small scheduling team in Bessemer rather than a call centre. They will tell you who is covering Bay City and when.

What every inspector holdsNo exceptions
InterNACHI certification
Membership requires continuing education and adherence to a published standard of practice.
Required
AHIT training
American Home Inspection Training Institute, the programme the founder came through.
Required
Errors & Omissions cover
Professional indemnity cover on every inspection we carry out.
Required
General liability cover
Carried on every inspection, alongside E&O.
Required
No repair work
Forbidden from repairing or pricing repairs on a property they inspected.
Never

What that buys you

Three things a certified inspector gives you.

Anyone can walk a house and point at things. These are the differences that show up when you are negotiating, or when the furnace fails in February.

Inspector working through the checklist

A consistent standard

The same checklist runs in Bay City as everywhere else — structure, roof, exterior, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, insulation, basement, crawl space and attic. Nothing is skipped because it was a long day.

The inspection report

A report a contractor can use

Photo-documented, ordered by priority, written in plain English. It is the document you hand to a contractor for a quote, so it has to be specific.

Discussing findings with a client

Someone to ring afterwards

Questions do not stop when the report lands. The inspector who walked your property is reachable through the office.

Where we draw the line

We inspect. We do not repair.

Our code of ethics forbids our inspectors from performing repairs, or from estimating repair costs, on a property they have inspected. An inspector who can profit from the problems he finds has a reason to find them.

You get a plain account of what is wrong and how serious it is. A licensed contractor prices and fixes it. We will come back and re-inspect the work at a minimal fee.

The whole roster, with photographs

  • Meet the full team
  • Credentials and training
  • Assigned by region
  • Same standard everywhere

Bay City, MI

Book the inspection.

Monday to Friday 8am–6pm, Saturday 9am–2pm. Give us the address and we will scope the right inspection for the property.