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Home Owner Inspections
There is a HUGE BENEFIT, for Home Owners who plan on being in their home for many years to come, in having 1st Choice Services perform a full Home Inspection on your property.  While you will likely see some things on your own that need improving, it is amazing how many more issues can go unnoticed through no fault of the owners.  With the training and equipment used by Tom Cobb at 1st Choice Residential and Commercial Services, we can provide you with a thorough report on your home.  In doing so, you will then know what systems need the most urgent attention and what areas need to be put on that “honey do list” to get accomplished over time and when budgets allow. 

If you have been living in your home for 5 YEARS or more, the small investment you make in getting a full Home Inspection could easily pay for itself many times over by the early detection of items in need of repair that you simply didn’t know existed.  As in most cases, if you find a problem early in its development you can save lots of money in performing repairs compared to replacing the item entirely.  Consider this similar to having your vehicle checked routinely by your car dealership and finding a small oil leak versus having to replace the entire engine…and isn’t your home worth tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars more than your vehicle?  And don’t you expect/desire your home to increase in value as opposed to your vehicle?  Let us help, CALL US TODAY!

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Buyers Inspection
In both new and older homes, the best way to ensure that you are well informed about the strengths and weaknesses of a property is to have 1st Choice Services give you a Professional Home Inspection. We are trained to identify problem areas, both large and small, that may have been overlooked by the current or previous owners and to identify which require immediate attention versus those that simply need to be put on your to-do list in order to improve your property value and operation.  See our Inspection Overview for more details.

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Sellers Inspection
Whether you are selling your home on your own or using a Realtor, it’s always a prudent idea to have a Professional Home Inspection performed. Knowledge is power! All homes have strengths and weaknesses: we help you answer how serious the problems are and which should be addressed immediately (preferably before you list your home) and which ones you decide to leave for the new home owner to handle.  The more you know about your home, the more prepared you will be for negotiations.  In fact, in today’s real estate market, you give yourself a “SELLING EDGE” by 1st Choice Services performing a complete Inspection of your property.  By having our company perform an Inspection, you show your prospective buyers how confident you are in the quality and safety of your home.  It is a fantastic “marketing tool” and gives your customer the reason to purchase your home over another if all other things are equal.  See our Inspection Overview for more details.

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Pool & Spa Inspections
These valuable and desirable features can enhance the pleasure of your home and increase its attractiveness as an investment.  However, they can also be expensive to repair.  It’s always good to know the condition of a pool or spa system; whether you are buying or selling your home.  We inspect these systems for potential "deficiencies" and provide you with an analysis of their current condition. If requested, we can provide this service as a stand-alone Inspection as well for Home Owners that want to make sure everything is as it should be with their Pool and Spa.

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New Home Warranty Inspection
Most builders provide a 1-Year warranty for new construction. Generally, during this period of time, the Home Owner develops a "punch list" of corrections for the contractor to repair under the warranty coverage. Some defeciencies unfortunately will not be obvious to the untrained eye. Home Owners are getting smarter with their huge investments. By bringing in Tom Cobb from 1st Choice Services during the 10th or 11th month of ownership, he can perform a Full Inspection of your home with a fresh set of eyes.  This better assures that you have the most complete listing of issues to then meet with your home builder and have corrected before the expense to repair them becomes YOURS.  Don’t delay any longer. Contact us so we can put your home on our schedule in order to assure this gets done in your 10th or 11th month of home ownership.

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Home Builders Quality Assurance
For our Home Builders in the DFW area, 1st Choice Services can provide a very unique benefit to your business. It is our Quality Assurance Program.

We will tailor a report specific to your needs to help assure that the quality you expect from your team is being met. It is a way for you to assure the good will and brand credibility is kept to the high standards you have promised your future home owners. 

Let 1st Choice Services “INSPECT WHAT YOU EXPECT” and provide you a written report of our findings during the different phases of your customer’s home building process.

Call Tom Cobb and discuss how he can provide you with potentially less costs in after the sale home owner issues and expenses, add a unique marketing plan to your business on top of what you already have today, give you an important edge when talking to your prospective customers, and how our program can save you countless dollars in those expensive and unnecessary workman’s compensation claims.

Put 1st Choice Residential and Commercial Services on your TEAM and allow us to help you provide the high level product your customers deserve.
   
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Rental Property Inspections
Whether you manage rental properties or buy them as investments, you need to have a Professional Inspector from 1st Choice Services do a thorough inspection of the property. If you are looking at the property as an investment to keep or “flip”, having our company perform a full inspection could potentially save you thousands of unforeseen and unwanted expenses. Our Inspection becomes a part of the decision making process for you on whether to buy the property or not; OR how to best go back and negotiate a better price to purchase. Don’t go in to this area without having our company by your side. For those who wish to contract our company as your primary Inspection Company, we would appreciate the opportunity to put together a long term program that would be beneficial to everyone

Please contact us so we may help you become as Successful and Profitable as possible.

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Home Energy Tune-uP®
Want to cut your home energy costs without taking out a second mortgage? And if you wanted to do this, where would you even begin? That’s where 1st Choice Services comes in. We are one of only a few companies in the nation trained and certified to offer you this great new service. It is the Home Energy Tune-uP® Program. 

The goal of the Home Energy Tune-uP® program is to “bring today’s energy technology to yesteryear’s homes, paid for by tomorrow’s energy savings.”
 
What this offers our Clients is another level of service and a very real cost savings on day one when implemented. By taking advantage of this service (which can be performed during the normal Inspection or as a stand alone Home Inspection), we can provide the information needed that will allow you to improve the energy-efficiency of your current or prospective home. The end results will be a more comfortable home, lower energy bills, and added value

Home Energy Tune-uP® reports the existing condition of the home, analyzes which improvements are most cost-effective, and provides guidance for implementation and financing. Since energy bills are usually the second largest cost of home ownership, and the only major cost that can actually be reduced, help in effectively reducing this cost benefits every homeowner. An additional benefit is that improved energy efficiency results in an improved environment now and in the future and lessens our dependence on foreign fuels.

Everyone can benefit and should take advantage of this type of inspection.  Put your money where your House is and give us a call and let us help you cut those high energy bills and put more cash in your pockets every month.  How much money will you keep in your bank account if you cut 25% from your monthly energy bill?

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Insurance VIP
This is a program that is provided directly to the Insurance Companies of the DFW community on behalf of their client or potential client. With the ever increasing concerns of the condition of homes and what the insurance companies may face in expenses, we are finding that our professional expertise can benefit both the insurance company AND their prospective customer at the same time. 

For the insurance companies; we have two options. We can provide a full home inspection and report as we normally would for our clients OR we can tailor a specific report that better suits your individual needs. In either case, we would provide you with the necessary information to allow you to make a smart and fully informed business decision on insuring any given property. 

The benefit to your client is that if the report comes back with information that resolves any concerns about insuring the property, your customer knows they will receive insurance from your company. It is the classic WIN-WIN for all involved.

Please contact us so we may put together a program for your company and become your Inspector of Choice; your 1st Choice.

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New Construction Inspection
In a new home, the quality of construction is sometimes not what it used to be many years ago. Therefore many buyers have learned the benefits of having independent reviews of their properties during various stages of the construction process; including foundation, framing, roof, electrical, plumbing, HVAC and final inspection.

During this type of Home Inspection, our Professional Inspector provides an “unemotional set of eyes” to help watch over your future home and will check in on it during several phases of its building. If you wish, we will even be on site as your service provider during the “final walk-through” that most home builders provide just prior to moving in. Our focus during this time is to scan every area for any last minute items we may find that need to be addressed and corrected by the home builder while you and your family go through the home with the Home Builders representative. We will then provide you with a report on anything we find that you should have them address either immediately or as soon as it works with your schedule.

This Inspection process helps protect your purchase, prevent unpleasant surprises, and ensure the quality home that you’ve dreamed about.

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Environmental Hazards
Our job as your Professional Home Inspector is to alert you, to the extent of our knowledge and ability, to unknown problems and potential environmental hazards in your current or potential home. Ours is a non-invasive visual inspection of your property which can alert you to possible problems. See our Environmental Hazards page for more information.

While we are not specifically licensed in the following areas and do not inspect for these hazards, we have some knowledge of them with our training and experience. During our Property Inspections, should we find what we feel is evidence of any of the below concerns, we will advise you to contact a licensed and certified professional in the problem area for a full evaluation.