The generation of a computerized Home Inspection report can greatly improve the professional service that a Home Inspector provides each and every customer. It also is the first line of defense when a problem is discovered and someone questions the Home Inspector and Inspection Report. Computers can be very powerful tools if used to their potential and very frustrating if problems exceed our limited computer skills. 

A Closer Look Inspection Service (ACL) has been performing home inspections in the Texas home inspection market for the last 25 years. Lore Hemsell has been a Home Inspector for over 30 years. Jim Hemsell served on the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) Inspectors Committee for 5 years and helped write the TREC Standards of Practice. They have been selling various Home Inspection report formats for the last 16 years to Texas inspectors.  

The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) has required specific formatting of our inspection reports for years. This has created a market for inexpensive and easy to use report formats that can work well in your market. These reports are well tested and used by over 4300 home inspectors in Texas for years. This popular Texas format can also be used in other states around the nation. Join the largest volume of Home Inspectors in the nation using a simple and dynamic Home Inspection Reporting System.

Many computer generated report programs are powerful programs that contain thousands of lines of computer code to help produce the report. The work to generate and support this code is expensive and developer propriety so the program is locked so no one can steal the code. Locking the code makes it harder to change and manipulate the program to make adjustments that become necessary as operating systems and other software changes over time. Inspection report software support is increasing supported by a per report charge that will tie you to the software company forever.  

The ACL Report 2007 using a different concept and business model. We generate Microsoft Word templates and leave the template unlocked so you the Inspector can make changes to the format as your market and conditions dictate. All ACL Home Inspection Report 2007 templates operate the exact same way and have the same capabilities to support text and picture formats. The only difference is the extent that we have gone in and customized the report to specific formats. You buy the template once and use it as long as you are in business.

Use the low cost tool developed to meet the report writing needs of over 4300 active Home Inspectors in the state of Texas. You pay once for the software and never have to pay an ongoing series of fees. The templates work on any PC system Windows 95 or later. Inspectors in Texas have been using the templates for over 10 years without any problems caused by changing versions of the Operating System or MS Word. These templates will not work on Apple computers using Microsoft Word. Each template is licensed for only one office computer andone laptop computer. If you would like a CD and hard copies of all the files, there will be a $20.00 shipping charge.  Please check the CD option on the order form.

The total cost will include 8 ½ % sales tax.