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Profile: About

Profile & Background

Our clients are professional and knowledgeable individuals wanting detail that no one else can (or will) provide since our perspective is based on 21 years of actual home-building and research. We don't generate a four page report so if you want a "quickie" you won't get it here.

We've provided services to thousands of clients, whole groups of family members, corporations, financial institutions, home builder construction managers and real estate agents "in- the-know" when they purchase their personal home. Our new built home inspections have expanded with the common knowledge that builders are not licensed in Texas. Being from the building industry, we provide frame inspections and final inspections for a myriad of people.

James L. Hime
Professional Background/Other:                                         

Professional and Certified Member - International Code Council

IRC Combination Code Certified - One and Two Family Residential Dwellings  (Building, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing; all-in-one)

SBBCI Combination Code Certified (Building, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing; all-in-one)
SBCCI was the historical building code for millions of homes in the south until it was rolled into the ICC in 2001. The SBCCI high wind portion is still used for windstorm construction.

Texas Dept. of Insurance - Certified Residential Property Inspector

TREC Professional Inspector 1646

Information contact of choice by builders, superintendents, inspectors, attorneys

National Charter Member - National Association of Property Inspectors through the Lincoln Graduate Center

Residential Construction Inspector - Construction Project Management - 21 years actual on-site home-building experience

National Charter Member - National Society of Environmental Consultants through the Lincoln Graduate Center

11 years  - Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)

Texas Radiation Control Bureau licensed for X-ray fluorescence spectrum analysis (XRF).  Texas Radiation General License

National author- "Understanding and Complying with Title X in Real Estate"; the lead-based paint laws

National  - speaker, Environmental Assessment Conference; Las Vegas; Co-speaker with U.S. EPA

National - speaker; National Association of Master Real Estate Appraisers (property condition and environmentals)

Yearly Continuing Education Providers or Other:

Gulf Coast School of Real Estate

Champion School of Real Estate

Texas Dept. of Insurance - windstorm education

Texas A&M University - Construction Science Dept.

International Code Council

NATEC of Texas - environmentals

State Qualified Inspection Training for Apprentices Do not send inquiries unless you have:

10-years actual building and managerial experience with impecable resume and acceptable references. Must be ICC combination code certified for at least 3-years and not be grand-fathered under previous codes. Requirement is to have passed the ICC certification test after Jan. 1, 2002. No exceptions. Previous SBCCI certification a plus.

Drug testing, credit check and criminal background check required.