Long Island Local Podcast: Meticulous Home Inspection

Описание: Episode 01
We sat down with Ray of Meticulous Home Inspection. Ray’s journey to home inspection includes more experience than your average inspector, and his passion for helping the buyers of homes is infectious! Also, we love his slogan “Don’t be ridiculous, call Meticulous!”
Thanks to Ray for stopping by the studios to talk with us!

Here is Ray’s website, www.meticuloushomeinspection.com

Here are detailed time stamps thanks to our producer Dylan

0:00- Long Island Local Podcast Intro
0:23 start of the podcast
0:32 Ray Wilson introduction
1:14 question 1 origin of the company and when Ray started (his last job)
2:30 ray talks about his first and last travel job going to Malaysia installing machines for testing aircraft components
5:47 when Ray got laid off and decided to not work for other people anymore talks his background in house building and carpentry
6:08 Ray talks about the benefits of being in a home inspectors association
6:50 ray talks about the first year being a home inspector and the cold call and knock on doors he would do and what his first year in business was like
7:57 fourth year in business first “good year” Talks zip realty and buyers reps
10:45 ray talks about how he moved on from zip realty and some of their business downfalls in NY
12:05 Matt and Ray talk about how qualifications get overlooked by price in business
12:54 Ray talks about some of his past jobs in construction, machine shops plumbing and electrical
13:50 ray talks about how its important to know the qualifications and the background of home inspectors “people don’t ask enough questions its just about the price”
14:28 Ray talks about real-estate and home inspector business during the covid pandemic and some of the loss of business he dealt with
17:58 Matt and Ray talk about how their can be a conflict of interest of the seller is in the house the home inspector is inspecting and how its important for the seller to not be in the house when the inspector is there
19:22 Ray talks about how reputation in the home inspector business is the most important part of the business you cant be viewed negatively
20:23 Matt and Ray talk about how its interesting to move forward post pandemic
21:00 ray talks about the benefits of google reviews
21:14 ray talks about his favorite part of home inspecting
21:43 ray talks about flip homes and all the complications that come with them and how it can complicate relationships with realtors
22:55 Matt and Ray talk about the importance of buyer loyalty and how it builds a good reputation
23:50 Matt and Ray talk about how “no home has no issues”
24:05 tells two stories on inspections he had done on homes
26:46 Matt and Ray discuses the idea of people getting their houses inspected prior to listing in order to make sure everything is done easier “pre listing home inspection”
28:55 time travel question what piece of advice would current ray bestow on his younger self
30:49 ray talks about how he got the name for his company
31:30 Ray talks about his hobbies to get him to unwind from the business
32:40 outro
33:08 Long island Local podcast Outro

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