Fostyr for home inspectors
The agents who send you inspections are the business. Keep every one.
A home inspection company does not win on price. It wins because a particular agent trusts a particular inspector to tell their buyer the truth. Fostyr keeps that trust from fading: every agent, every office, every inspection they sent, and a nudge before any of them goes quiet.
Where the work comes from for a home inspection company
Real estate agents
They recommend you to every buyer. One agent can be forty inspections a year.
Brokerage offices
An office manager who puts you on the preferred list is worth a dozen individual agents.
Past clients
The buyer from three years ago is selling, and they remember who was honest with them.
Other inspectors and trades
Sewer scopes, radon, pest and roofers hand work back and forth.
What goes wrong without a system
The agent who stopped calling
Four inspections in the spring, none by October. Nobody noticed until the year-end numbers. Meanwhile a competitor brought doughnuts to their office twice.
The office you meant to visit
You said you'd stop by the new brokerage with cards. It's been five months. There is no list of which offices you have visited and when.
The history in one inbox
Every thread with your best agent lives in one inspector's email. If that inspector leaves, so does eight years of context.
Software that tracks jobs, not people
Your scheduler knows the address and the fee. It has no idea that the agent on the order has sent you nineteen clients, or that the last one was in March.
Where to start, with no software and no plan
Start with the agents, not the buyers
Buyers inspect a house once. Agents send you buyers for a decade. Your first list is every agent who has ever put you on an order, with a count beside each name.
Connect what already knows them
Your scheduling software already holds every order and the agent on it. Your inbox holds every conversation. Connect both once and the list builds itself; you never type an agent in.
Learn who is going quiet
Sort the list by last inspection sent. The agents at the bottom who used to be at the top are your first calls this week. That is marketing, and it costs a phone call.
Make the office rounds a rhythm
Pick the ten offices that matter, put them on a route, and visit on a cadence. Keep a note per office of what you learned and what to bring next time.
How Fostyr fits a home inspection company
Hub: Which agents are waiting on you this morning.
Fostyr opens on the day: the agent who asked about Thursday and hasn't heard back, the office that has gone quiet, the buyer who just introduced you to a new agent. Ask Fostyr who sent the most work last spring and get an answer, not a report to build.
Relationships: Every agent, every office, every inspection they sent.
Each agent has a journey: the inspections, the emails, the calls, the notes from everyone on your team, in order. A grade tells you who matters by what they have sent, not by who is loudest. Offices hold their agents and the work the whole office has produced.
Workspace: The inbox and the calendar, attached to the people.
A thread with an agent lands on the agent. A follow-up you owe after an inspection sits beside the order. Templates for the emails you send every week: the report is ready, thank you for the referral, we'd love a review.
Marketing: Office visits, agent classes and reviews, on a schedule.
A route for the offices you visit, with what you learned at each stop. Rhythms for the quarterly check-in and the after-inspection thank-you, in your voice. Reviews requested when the report goes out. Forms for the classes you teach at brokerages.
Connections: Your scheduler and your inbox fill it in.
Connect Keystone and every agent and office becomes a relationship, with the inspections they sent. Connect Gmail and the threads attach themselves. Use another scheduler? Tell us at setup and we'll help you bring your data over.
What marketing means for a home inspection company
Marketing for an inspector is agent relationships
Not ads, not a new logo. It is being the inspector an agent thinks of first, and staying that inspector. Every dollar you'd spend on ads is better spent on a lunch with an agent who sent you three clients.
The office visit is the campaign
A monthly round of the brokerages that matter, with something useful in hand: a class on what buyers ask, a checklist for listings, your availability for the busy season.
Reviews are referrals in writing
Ask every buyer at the moment the report lands. An agent showing a buyer three inspectors will pick the one with two hundred honest reviews.
Questions home inspectors ask
- How do I grow a home inspection business?
- Through agents. Most inspection work comes from a small number of real estate agents and offices who recommend you to their buyers. Growth means meeting more of them, keeping the ones you have, and noticing quickly when one goes quiet. Fostyr is built around exactly that list.
- What software does a home inspector need?
- A scheduling and report tool for the inspections themselves, and a relationship system for the agents who send them. Fostyr is the second one. It connects to your scheduler and your inbox so the agents and their history fill in on their own.
- How do I get more referrals from real estate agents?
- Be easy to book, be honest on site, follow up the same day, and stay visible between inspections. The part most inspectors miss is the last one. Fostyr tells you which agents haven't sent work in a while and gives you a reason to reach out.
- Is Fostyr a CRM for home inspectors?
- It is a relationship system rather than a sales CRM. A CRM tracks deals in a pipeline. Fostyr tracks the agents and offices behind your inspections, with their whole history, and nudges you before a relationship fades.
- Does Fostyr work with my inspection scheduling software?
- Fostyr connects to Keystone today, and to Gmail for your mail. If you use another scheduler, say so at setup and we'll help you bring your agents and orders over.
- How much does Fostyr cost for a home inspection company?
- $200 a month for your core team of up to five, then $35 a month per additional person. There is a thirty-day trial with no card required.
Pricing
$200 a month for your core team of up to five, then $35 a month per additional person. Thirty-day trial, no card required.