TOPIC: How to provide a detailed and fast report.

I have one of those.  I just cant use it right now as I have my house up for sale and had to clear it all out for staging.

But also, its because I do stuff for every room.  I always, do my report, then add the photos (tons of them, but don't use them all).  The I match up the pics to where they need to go.  Then I go through the final report until I don't find any mistakes.

Most of the time I am doing other things, so my report time may jump to 5 pr 6 hours.  I find that the report takes me about as much time as it take to do the inspection.  I have been thinking of creating a report with most of the fields pre-filled in to cut the time down.  I'm hoping that a touch screen will really speed things up.

Definitely too long. I'll look over your sample reports when I get a chance. Are those up to date with what your template looks like right now? There's definitely quite a bit you can do to get your time way down.

No, those are older.

Here is the latest one I did. 

something to remember, keep your quick picks simple, if you need added info that is where your drop down on the photo comes in , ADDING extra info because you want to be more descriptive for this picture.
Also your there to point out the defects, Observe and report, Its not our place to say the bath looks good and the shower and spa tub flow in a nice co-effecient way.
if it is fine, quick pick, spa worked at time of inspection.
labouring on all little things will bog you and your report down.
Last week I handed in a report, 4 photos 3 outlets non grounded and a settlement crack along the garage.
My standard added info like SOP, Agreement, and client info took the majority of the report.
I tell clients your paying me to tell you whats wrong with the house, you decide whats right with the house.

No, those are older.

Here is the latest one I did. 

John, overall the report looks good. I'd combine the first 4 sections into just 1. Call in General Information or something. That will save you time jumping around in between sections. Also, you misspelled ceiling in your last photo caption (just an FYI to update your template).

Any reason you used restroom instead of bathroom? Seems like restroom is more of a commercial term than what's used for a home.

I use the ctl2 go computer, and do my inspections on a room X room with an identification photo for each room.I can do a 4 bed, 3+bath house including printing the report on site in 4 hrs +-. I have a reputation for being careful and thorough.

Take the computer room by room, sit on the floor and fill in your template carefully so you dont have to "dink with it later" Take all the photos in the room at the same time starting with an overview shot of the space.

At the end of the inspection process, batch load the photos and go strait to editing them, I agree that adding comments is not necessary because of the nice placement the report does, but I do add my bright yellow arrows as on the ctl2go it only takes  5 seconds to do.

Her is where you save the time. Generate the report and then skim it looking for missing comments or unchecked rating boxes. When you find one (and you will) swap active windows to hip and make the correction, swap back to the pdf and continue on correcting as you go until the end of report.

Save inspection, save template, generate report. While report is generating, color laser printer is warming up. While report is printing, car is loading up. Pull report off printer and put in bitchen 3 hole presentation folder and hand to client  with a pencil. Walk through with the client, grab printer, leave, turn around at the end of the block and get the check you forgot.

Hope that helps, Rich