TONY HECHT ENTERPRISES HOME INSPECTIONS

Extremely helpful in developing list of items for warranty work at the first anniversary of our new home. Company kept us informed of expectations. Inspector was on time and performed services as outlined - very professional.

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received a letter from Tony Hecht Enterprises [“THE”] promoting their one-year construction anniversary “Peace of Mind Inspection”. I contacted them to schedule an appointment. They then informed me they applied a 20% up-charge to the price quoted in the letter to inspect a Toll Brothers [our builder] home because ”they have so many problems it takes us much longer to do the inspection.” Mr. Hecht assured me they would find “lots of issues”. He urged me to check on line and told me I would find scads of Toll Brothers complaints. Well, I checked on-line. I found zero complaints on the ROC web site. I did a “Toll Brothers Complaints” Google search – the only one for TB Arizona was dated 2007 – and was largely based on a quote from … Tony Hecht Enterprises. I would still have gone forward with THE, but spoke with the two most highly reviewed and rated companies on AL. They both told me they found no more or less problems with Toll Brothers homes and both were at least 25% cheaper than THE's TB price. Both indicated the amount of time they would spend on the inspection; it was the same as THE quoted for TB House. I have no reason to think that THE does not do a competent inspection job, but have no reason to believe they are any better and so worth a 20% premium.

Tony was at the house for about 8 hours and was very thorough. We received a CD, written report and pictures. My only issue was that the pictures were not in the report itself, they were on the CD that was provided. I had to find out how to edit the PDF and insert the pictures myself. Tony indicated that this was because the pictures were high resolution which is great but I would have liked that lower resolution pictures would have been included in the report. Tony found many things as well as a low-E window that was NOT low-E. It seems nobody else even does low-E inspections so that was a plus. Additional charge was for pool and low-E windows. House size is 4242 square feet with two stories.

TONY HECT ENTERPRISES DID A GREAT JOB. THEY SPENT ALMOST 8 HOURS INSPECT THE HOUSE. THEY IDENTIFIED 47 ITEMS FOR REPAIR. I RECEIVED A VERY DETAILED REPORT AND MANY DIGITAL PICTURES OF THE ITEMS IN QUESTIONS. GREAT JOB.

PREPARED A VERY THOROUGH REPORT OF THEIR INSPECTION, INCLUDING PHOTOS OF PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED. THE INSPECTOR USED A CHECKLIST OF ITEMS TO ENSURE THAT ALL AREAS WERE INSPECTED. HE THEN PREPARED A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE REPAIR NEEDED. HE PROVIDED VERY CLEAR DEFINITIONS FOR ALL TERMS THAT HE USED AND INCLUDED A LIST OF MAINTENANCE ITEMS FOR KEEPING YOUR HOUSE IN GOOD CONDITION.