Archives: San Francisco

We provide valuable services for both home buyers and sellers. Whether you’re concerned with repairs before listing your home or hidden conditions in your soon to be investment, we can help. Our reports are clearly organized, digital photo ready and accessible from our website. Our inspection includes a visual [...]

Matt Cantor has been performing inspections since 1988 and is a graduate of the University of California (Cal) Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. Matt’s area of expertise is centered around the retrofitting and upgrading of early 20th century houses with special emphasis on seismic issues, energy conservation (green remodeling) [...]

Star has been a fixture in the real estate community since 1979 and has inspected many thousands of residential and commercial properties. Our inspectors have years of experience in the construction industry and are comfortable inspecting anything from 19th-century single-family homes to modern multi-storied commercial buildings. Our reports are [...]

Paul Barraza has been a property inspector since 2007, and started after attending ITA (Inspection Training Associates). While completing the course, he caught the attention of instructor John McComas, which served as a spring board to start an apprenticeship under one of the most well respected home inspectors in the [...]

Lawrence Hoytt is the President of Hoytt Inspection Services, Inc., founded in 1976. The firm has provided over 20,000 inspections. He has been instrumental in establishing state and national industry standards, and he has personally sponsored home inspection legislation regarding licensing. Mr. Hoytt’s extensive inspection experience has enhanced his [...]

Greg Marell, is a California Licensed General Contractor, an American Society of Home Inspectors® (ASHI) Certified Inspector, and a Certified FEMA Disaster Housing Inspector. He is also a member of the International Code Council, National Association of Residential Real Estate Professionals, the National Roofing Contractors Association, and the National [...]

Spencer Short grew up in North Little Rock, Arkansas. From there he moved to Northern California in 1992 and has had an eclectic background ranging from coffee shop owner to mortgages, commercial real estate (apartment building) sales to running a Medical Cannabis Collective/Dispensary… A life of tinkering and building [...]

Sarah deVito Brown has been a California B-1 General Building Contractor since 2002. Since graduating from UC Berkeley in 1991 with a BA in Architecture, she has overseen numerous commercial and residential design, remodel, construction and design/build projects. She has worked in the Bay Area and in Santa Fe, [...]