TOPIC: NOVAhi new SAMPLE REPORT - Residential

Serge. Are you doing this all on site? I noticed your  inspection time was 2 and a half hours. Was that to do the inspection and report or the inspection only. I am interested in speeding up my inspection + report time without compromising on quality. I would be blown away if you could pull both of those off in 2 and a half hours with such a knockout report.

James, I do my reports in my office, on my PC. I promise my clients, the report within 24 hours, or by the next business day.  I believe that a quality and comprehensive report is the value for the client. It's the home inspector's lasting impression, and our advertising. I cannot provide this type of report on site.  We can, and lots of HI's do, provide the inspection and report on site, and “be done with it".  At my stage in this business, I'm unable to and would be uncomfortable doing so.

My reports are still going through an evolutionary stage. I’ve changed my template and documents substantially, in the last four months since this thread was started.  I will be posting a new NOVAhi  Sample report soon.  For one, I do not use “ratings” any more and I’ve changed the look and fonts a bit.

Dominic,  I’m still waiting for the “drop-down” feature to be included. I believe that this one feature alone, will speed up the reporting process.

Almost done with it too. I've been splitting my time between that and the photo feature.

Serge,

Great job on the template.  I am a new user of the software and I used the matrix report system for years.  This template is exactly what I was going to attempt to do over thenext year but you have captured the system that I was looking for.  Thanks for all of the hard work and long days. This is great!!!!

Serge,
Saw your stuff at the Annual Meeting and am blown away.
Now that I've downloaded the template, I've got to figure out how to steal your narrative.
I owe you a drink next time our paths cross!
Bob Walstead

Dominic,
Can you edit the pdf document that way?
Bob Walstead

Bob, you can highlight the intro sections (assuming that's what you're referring to) and paste them into Edit Documents within the program. The narratives within the section automatically come with the template.

It was great meeting you guys in Vegas and I owe you guys big time for helping out as the booth continually got swamped with people. The two of us couldn't keep up, but you and Serge were always there to help!