Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for February 2023

  

Winner of our gas card drawing for the month of February 2023

Also Happy Belated Birthday

Realtor

Christy Osborne Crumpler

with

OMG - Christy - Chris performed his first home inspection for one of your clients in October of 2011. That is over 12 years ago. Close to half of Chris's career in inspections. WOW - You must have been a teenager. Yes, our company has been assisting Christy's clients for a very long time and consider every inspection booked our great honor. We have had a few where the client walked, even one where the client decided to walk before we entered this house. We even had one new construction, which had been complete for awhile and discovered the water line between the meter and the house had never been installed - Oops!  Sorry about that, they are what they are, we are just the messenger. Irrelevant of the results of inspections, and a few road blocks over the years, Christy has stuck with us through thick and thin. Since Chris is only 72 years old he looks forward to decades of additional work with Christy's clients. 

We will be contacting Christy to find out whether she prefers a Sheetz or Speedway card which she will receive shortly in an email. Hey Christy - Become eligible for the next drawing by following the instructions below. Your card will not be re-entered. 

For every inspection we have, with one of your clients, we are now creating a card to enter in the drawing. There are also other ways to be eligible. Let’s fill the drawing cage up with cards. All but the one drawn will remain for the full year. 

Question is how do YOU win the one for March? Find out here:

New Blog related to Home Inspections

Check out our new blog related to Home Inspections.

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What a Realtor has to say

Recent comment on a Facebook post about a home we inspected two years ago going back on the market listed by the buyers agent at that time who was there with us when Nora and I inspected it two years ago.

“I loved being there and enjoyed watching you work, totally and completely impressed by your knowledge and how thorough you were. It was just great!! I normally tell people sellers don’t usually like him and buyers love him, when speaking about you. Now these buyers are the sellers and they hold you in the highest regard. Cheers!!!!”

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8093-Deer-Hill-Cir-Belews-Creek-NC-27009/5825441_zpid/

You can be a happy seller on selling the home we inspected for your or a pleased Realtor. Book you next home inspection at www.chrisdhilton.com

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for January

 

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for January 

Realtor

Julie Miller 

with

Century 21 Total Real Estate Solutions

High Point

Julie, Top Producer of the Year with her company, knows the secret to winning our gas card drawing. Have one client with accepted offers and inspections on three houses, one after the other who books us for all three inspections. Works for me! Congratulations Julie, we look forward to working with your clients on their inspection in the future. Three at a time, all the better. 

I will be contacting Julie to find out whether her prefers a Sheetz or Speedway card which her will receive shortly in an email. Hey Julie - Become eligible for the next drawing by following the instructions below. Your card will not be re-entered. 

Word to the wise, we are having a terrible time remembering to get one of your business cards at our inspections. We haven't done a very good job of that. It is our fault so we have changed the process. For every inspection we have, with one of your clients, we are now creating a card to enter in the drawing. There are also other ways to be eligible. Let’s fill the drawing cage up with cards for 2023. We have emptied the cage and starting over for 2023. 

Question is how do YOU win the one for February? Find out here:

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for December

 

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for December 

Realtor

Dan Rath 

with

The Dan Rath Team of Allen Tate Realtors

I feel like I have know Dan forever as he was the sportscaster on WXII TV for many years and I watched the news religiously, at that time. In actuality I do not know Dan that well but I am fully aware that he and his bride have been great friends, and a God Send, to my nephew and his bride, with their special needs child Dan mentions in this write up on his website you can read below or access by clicking on the image above. 

It was a dark and stormy night! Okay, it might have been night, but, I’m not sure about the stormy part. The point is, I wasn’t born with the dream to carry around a little briefcase and become a real estate agent. My dream was to be a radio and television sportscaster.

And for more than 25 years, I went to the Daytona 500, The Final Four, and the Masters. I met Michael Jordan, Dale Earnhardt, Bob Hope, and even President Gerald Ford. However, life has a way of re-writing our stories.

The real estate chapter began in 2001 with my wife, MaryKay. We are now the Dan Rath Team, with my daughter Katie and son-in-law, Phillip.

People tell us all the time they want a one-story or a two-story house. But, I have learned homes have dozens of stories. In those stories, I find satisfaction, challenge, success, and sometimes failure; but each result helps me to better understand and serve my clients.

As a child… raised by a single mother, I have a heart for the ‘mom client’ that needs a protector, someone to be on her side as she strives to provide a safe and stable home for her children.

As a son… taking care of his mother in her final years, I respect the adult child who later must sell their mother’s last home… and what was their first home. 

As a friend… to a family with a special needs child, we have learned he didn’t need granite countertops or hardwood floors, he needed freedom from the body he was trapped in. It came from a house that few wanted; dead end street, the lovely wooded backyard cut down to make way for a 300-car parking lot, but, used only on Sunday mornings for churchgoers. Where, for 6/1-2 days of the week, it is the little boy’s sanctuary; it is his haven, his freedom to drive his little blue motorized dune buggy and, for a few minutes, feel like any other kid.

Yes, we buy and sell houses, but, more importantly, we help you find your way home.

We look forward to additional inspections from Dan, his team and their clients. 

I will be contacting Dan to find out whether he prefers a Sheetz or Speedway card which he will receive shortly in an email. Hey Dan - Become eligible for the next drawing by following the instructions below. Your card will not be re-entered. 

Word to the wise, we are having a terrible time remembering to get one of your business cards at our inspections. We haven't done a very good job of that. It is our fault so we have changed the process. For every inspection we have, with one of your clients, we are now creating a card to enter in the drawing. There are also other ways to be eligible. Let’s fill the drawing cage up with cards for 2023. As this brings 2022 to an end we are emptying the cage and starting over. 

Question is how do YOU win the one for January? Find out here:

$50.00 Christmas Discount on Home Inspections

 

Beginning today, December 3, 2022, through December 31, 2022 we offer a $50.00 discount on all qualifying inspections booked during that time period. Realtors can offer their clients a Christmas Gift on us. All that is required is to book an inspection online and enter $50.00 Holiday Discount in the notes of the booking and we will reduce the inspection fee by $50.00. 

Book yours, or your clients inspection at http://www.chrisdhilton.com/booking.html in any of the North Carolina Counties in red below and enter the note.  

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for November

  

Winner of our ninth gas card drawing for the month of November 2022

Realtor

Lisa Hill

with

Stratford Realty Group 

Of

One of the most distinctive features of Realtor, Lisa Hill, from our company perspective, is that our inspector, Josh Hedges, is married to her daughter, Olivia. However, our connection with Lisa extends back almost a decade, when Olivia and Josh were young teenagers in 2013 and Josh wasn’t likely a figment of her imagination. Yes, we have been involved with Lisa’s clients home inspections since her beginning in real estate. Irrelevant of the results of our inspections, which can be wicked at times, Lisa hangs with us. To the best of our knowledge, Lisa holds the record of closing on the property with the highest repair estimate, following our inspection, of over $70,000. She negotiated a reduction in the price of that amount and took that property to the closing table. WOW!

We look forward to decades of additional work with Lisa’s clients. I fully plan on living a long life and continue working with Lisa and her clients. 

I will be contacting Lisa to find out whether she prefers a Sheetz or Speedway card which she will receive shortly in an email. Hey Lisa - Become eligible for the next drawing by following the instructions below. Your card will not be re-entered. 

Word to the wise, we are having a terrible time remembering to get one of your business cards at our inspections. We haven't done a very good job of that. It is our fault so we have changed the process. For every inspection we have, with one of your clients, we are now creating a card to enter in the drawing. There are also other ways to be eligible. Let’s fill the drawing cage up with cards. All but the one drawn will remain for the full year. 

Question is how do YOU win the one for December? Find out here:

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for October

 

Steven Limbers and his lovely wife Ashley

Winner of our eighth gas card drawing for the month of October 2022

Realtor

Steven Limbers

with

Keller Williams Realty One

Provided that I have my story straight Steven Limbers attained his real estate brokerage license in January of 2020 and we conducted our first home inspection, for one of his clients, in June of his first year. I believe that Nora Akers was with me on the first one and Josh Hedges on the second. I think that I may have put Josh alone on the third and Steven's clients have been booking with Josh ever since. Is that upsetting for me? Absolutely not, such is our game plan and it works. Nothing pleases me more than for agents and their clients to be pleased with our trainee/associates and to actually prefer them over me. Steven and his clients can't go wrong with Josh on their team. 

Josh and our company look forward to a long term relationship with Steven and his clients. 

I will be contacting Steven to find whether he prefers a Sheetz or Speedway card which he will receive shortly in an email. Hey Steven - Become eligible for the next drawing by following the instructions below. Your card will not be re-entered. 

Word to the wise, we are having a terrible time remembering to get one of your business cards at our inspections. We haven't done a very good job of that. It is our fault so we have changed the process. For every inspection we have, with one of your clients, we are now creating a card to enter in the drawing. There are also other ways to be eligible. Let’s fill the drawing cage up with cards. All but the one drawn will remain for the full year. 

Question is how do YOU win the one for November? Find out here:

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for September

 

Winner of our seventh gas card drawing for the month of September 2022

Realtor

Taylor Street Hamlett

with

Hedrick Street Real Estate, LLC

We have worked with Terry Hedrick's clients for around two decades through various company transitions. Taylor is a breath of fresh air to Terry and Taylor's father Neal Street's organization of Hedrick Street Real Estate, LLC. 

Our experience with Taylor is limited as she is young and relatively new to the industry, unlike old codgers like Terry and I. It was our great pleasure to connect with her through a home inspection during 2022. 

We have learned about Taylor from her companies website. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017 with a degree in journalism but found he passion in the real estate industry as a third generation real estate broker. In her spare time Taylor loves traveling with her husband, Shane, and spoiling her Australian Shepherd puppy, Kenan. 

Our inspection team looks forward to a long term relationship with Taylor, far exceeding our relationship with her associate Terry Hedrick. 

I will be contacting Taylor to find whether she prefers a Sheetz or Speedway card which she will receive shortly in an email. Hey Taylor - Become eligible for the next drawing by following the instructions below. Your card will not be re-entered. 

Word to the wise, we are having a terrible time remembering to get one of your business cards at our inspections. We haven't done a very good job of that. It is our fault so we have changed the process. For every inspection we have, with one of your clients, we are now creating a card to enter in the drawing. There are also other ways to be eligible. Let’s fill the drawing cage up with cards. All but the one drawn will remain for the full year. 

Question is how do YOU win the one for September? Find out here:

New Home Inspection Booking System

 

BREAKING NEWS - Following almost three years of procrastination, trepidation, months of grueling work, trying my patience, our new home inspection booking system is live and functioning. 

What does this mean for you good and bad? 

Let’s deal with the bad first:

Our prices will increase a little. Feel free to blame that on our current presidential administrations drastically negative affect on our economy as I will. Our base rate has increased $25.00 and radon tests by the same. That now makes our base rate for a home, up to 1600 SF, $425.00, radon tests with inspections $150.00 and without an inspection $175.00. 

The good good news:

We now have a $25.00 discount if you select a package which includes a radon test with your inspection. 

I felt that our charge for attached homes, condos and townhouse was too high, therefore we now discount that, from the base price, by $50.00. Making that base price for attached homes, up to 1600 SF, be $375.00.

Our add on for homes over 1600 SF, and for homes over 25 years old, rather than calculate by ranges now calculate per exact square foot and year. In reality this makes some less and some more but is much more fair to the home. 

Our package inspection, including a radon test, for large, higher priced and old/historic homes now includes a team to make them go quicker as well as a $50.00 discount. 

You now have the option to choose to add a team to make your inspection go much quicker at a $200.00 added fee. 

We now include an option for a walk and talk on detached structures, without a report at no charge. 

You can now book an inspection on small out buildings including living space and garages with apartments as part of your booking. 

Shortly, Realtors who work with us on a regular basis, will have their own personal page with more simplified booking and access to all of your inspection reports from the past and overtime. 

You will now be able to book inspections in the High Country and all of the areas we cover, based on the zip codes we cover, without difficulty. It will no longer be tied to towns. 

If you have questions, difficulty or concerns with the new system feel free to comment below or text me at 336-816-7756 

Book your inspection now on our website at www.chrisdhilton.com or go direct to our booking page at http://www.chrisdhilton.com/booking.html

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for August

 

Winner of our sixth gas card drawing for the month of August 2022

Realtor

Kris Childress

with

Many Realtors are the sunshine in our lives but few more than Kris Childress. When we arrive for one of her clients inspections, Kris has a smile on her face and greats us with a hug. I will be honest we have experienced some challenging homes with Kris but she hangs in there and works it out whether it be to creatively make that one happen or move on to the next one, she doesn't miss a beat. Kris's smile, as you see in the photos above, is infectious. You can't not be happy in her presence. 

We have been conducting home inspections for Kris's clients since November of 2018. I have fond memories, early on, as Kris pulled up in a driveway behind me walked up and said. "Do you know there are some agents who don't care for you." I said "quite a few, why?" "This listing agent was upset that I chose you and couldn't understand why." She said that you do know he is a deal killer, don't you? Why do  you use him?" I inquired what she said. "I said that I use him because he is the best and I want the best for my clients." Guess that settled that. I am still attempting to figure out all of those deals I killed. They are actually few and far between. In reality, we save many more of those "tough" homes than we kill. Truth is that Kris can assure you than I have likely helped save a few of hers and a few of the homes have committed suicide. Such is life and Realtors, like Kris, understand and are appreciative. Kris is the kind of Realtor we prefer to work with. There are many who claim they place their client interests above their own. Kris honestly does.

I will be contacting Kris to find whether she prefers a Sheetz or Speedway card which she will receive shortly in an email. Hey Kris - Become eligible for the next drawing by following the instructions below. Your card will not be re-entered. 

Word to the wise, we are having a terrible time remembering to get one of your business cards at our inspections. We haven't done a very good job of that. It is our fault so we have changed the process. For every inspection we have, with one of your clients, we are now creating a card to enter in the drawing. There are also other ways to be eligible. Let’s fill the drawing cage up with cards. All but the one drawn will remain for the full year. 

Question is how do YOU win the one for September? Find out here:

Winner of our $100 Gas Card Drawing for July

Winner of our fifth gas card drawing for the month of July 2022

Realtor

Richard Paulicelli

with

Richard, Joel (born in July), 2 year old Sophia and Stephanie

Richard lives in Whitsett and works the Burlington area, therefore many of his home inspections are an hour, or more, drive for us both ways. Why do we drive those distances for Richard's clients? Because he is persistent and the work just keeps coming over and over again almost every week and sometimes multiple times in a week. 

We did our first home inspection with one of Richard's clients in April of 2019 shortly after he became a Realtor and was dissatisfied with home inspection experiences starting out. Our team has literally been involved with the growth of his real estate career and his family, daughter Sophia born, November of 2020, and his son Joel born, weeks ago, in July. We have all enjoyed his excitement is discover he was going to be a father twice as he was constantly booking home inspections, in 2019 and then again in 2021. As Facebook friends we have shared in the process of Richard's children's births and adventures, with he and Stephanie, starting out as new parents. 

Our most fascinating experiences with Richard were observing him finding out they were expecting a child and dealing with that through the pandemic as he started out totally paranoid, as many where, with protecting the mother of his child, and their child, through this process while working to keep his business thriving. Then we observed him do it all over again with much more experience. Richard is the type Realtor we most enjoy working with. He is as paranoid about doing the very best meeting his clients needs. Richard is always very in tune with the details attending and being involved with their home inspections and our process. 

It doesn't appear that we can chase him away as, for some strange reason we only experience, and pay to repair, most of our short comings, on Richard's clients home inspections. One involved a roofing issue and recently two window issues. Thankfully, Richard, remains consistent, no matter what, and continues booking enough home inspections to off set our expense when we screw up. Don't get excited, apparently we only stumble and fall on Richard's inspections and work with he, and his clients, to quickly resolve the issues to everyones satisfaction leaving everyone happy new homeowners. We refuse to have dissatisfied clients or their agents. 

I will be contacting Richard to find whether he prefers a Sheetz or Speedway card which he will receive shortly in an email. Hey Richard - Become eligible for the next drawing by following the instructions below. Your card will not be re-entered. 

Word to the wise, we are having a terrible time remembering to get one of your business cards at our inspections. We don’t do a very good job of that. It is our fault so we are going to change the process. For every inspection we have, with one of your clients, we are now creating a card to enter in the drawing. There are also other ways to be eligible. Let’s fill the drawing cage up with cards. All but the one drawn will remain for the full year. 

Question is how do YOU win the one for August? Find out here: