Detroit, MI
Home inspectors in Detroit, MI.
Big Moose runs a team of twenty-five certified inspectors across Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Your Detroit 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
5.0From 792 reviews
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 Detroit 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 Detroit and when.
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.
A consistent standard
The same checklist runs in Detroit as everywhere else — structure, roof, exterior, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, insulation, basement, crawl space and attic. Nothing is skipped because it was a long day.
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.
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
Detroit, 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.