Who is this site for?
Homebuyers who want to screen out an obviously bad house before spending money on a professional inspection. It's built for the twenty minutes of a showing, not as a substitute for the inspection itself.
If you're a first-time buyer trying to know what you're looking at, an experienced buyer who wants a faster way to rule houses out, or anyone tired of touring homes with no sense of what's actually serious versus cosmetic, this site is built around that specific moment: after the listing catches your eye, before you've paid anyone to look closer.
What does this site deliberately not do?
It doesn't replace a licensed home inspector, and every guide says so directly rather than burying that in fine print. It also doesn't try to teach you to evaluate anything that requires opening a panel, testing under load, or specialized equipment.
Every system guide on this site draws the same line: here's what's visible and checkable by a buyer with no training, and here's the point where you need a professional instead. Radon, refrigerant charge, septic tank internals, confirmed asbestos content, none of that is something a walkthrough can responsibly claim to cover, and this site says so on the relevant pages rather than stretching past what a buyer can actually verify.
How does this site make money?
Through affiliate relationships with companies in the home-buying space, most relevantly home warranty providers, though as of this writing the site has not yet finalized which providers it will work with.
The logic behind that pairing is straightforward and stated plainly: a walkthrough catches what's visible. It cannot catch a system that's about to fail after you move in, which is what a home warranty covers. The two are complementary, not competing, and the after-the-offer guide explains that relationship directly rather than treating it as a sales pitch dressed up as advice.
Commercial relationships, when they exist, will never change what a page says a finding costs or how severe it is. The severity tags and cost figures throughout this site come from independent research, not from whichever company might be paying for a placement on a given page.
How is each page researched?
Every cost figure, lifespan estimate and code reference on this site comes from live research into current industry sources, cross-checked across multiple independent guides rather than taken from a single source. Figures are dated and get revisited as they age.
Where a fact came from a forum, a Reddit thread, or similar informal source, it's treated as a lead worth investigating, never as a citable fact on its own, and gets independently verified through a primary or industry source before it appears on a page.
How do you report an error?
Costs move, codes change by jurisdiction, and this site would rather be corrected than stay wrong. If something here looks outdated or incorrect, that feedback is genuinely useful and gets acted on, not filed away.