For Home Buyers
Know What You Are Buying
Before you close on a luxury property, find out exactly what works, what does not, and what it will cost to bring the technology up to standard. An independent pre-purchase technology inspection.
The Buyer Blind Spot
Your Home Inspector Did Not Test the Crestron System
Standard home inspectors are thorough on structure, HVAC, roof, electrical, and plumbing. None of them are trained on Crestron, Lutron, networking, AV, or smart home credential transfer. If the listing property has a six-figure technology package, that entire investment was not evaluated in your inspection report.
You are about to close on a home where a significant portion of the value is untested.
What You Will Know After the Inspection
Four Categories of Clarity
What Works
Room-by-room inventory of every system that is functional, properly programmed, and worth the value shown on the listing.
What Does Not Work
Every issue we identify, with severity ratings. Dead keypads, broken scenes, offline cameras, expired accounts, failed equipment.
What It Will Cost to Fix
Itemized repair estimate. You can use the numbers in closing negotiation to request credits, or decide what to tackle yourself post-closing.
What Changes Hands
We document every account, login, and license that should transfer to you at closing. No lingering access for the previous owner. No months of troubleshooting accounts you do not control.
Negotiation use
How the Report Supports Your Closing
A luxury home in Alpine goes under contract at $4.8 million. Our pre-purchase inspection identifies $62,000 in technology issues: failed projector lamp, offline network switch, four dead keypads, expired camera subscriptions, and a Crestron processor running firmware three generations out of date.
The buyer requests a $62,000 credit at closing, backed by our line-item estimate. The seller agrees because the numbers are defensible. The buyer closes, we handle the remediation post-closing, and the new owner takes possession of a working system.
This pattern repeats in every luxury transaction where a qualified inspection happens. Without one, the buyer inherits the problems and pays for them in frustration and unplanned expenses.
Timing
When to Schedule
During Due Diligence
The ideal window. Schedule the inspection in the same week as your standard home inspection so any findings can be addressed in the negotiation phase.
At Contract Contingencies
If your due diligence period is long, there is room to inspect, quote, and use the findings for credit requests before contingencies expire.
Pre-Closing Walkthrough
If we are on site during the walkthrough, we can test every system one more time and flag anything that changed since the initial inspection.
At Closing
We are present for credential transfer. Every account, login, and system handoff is documented and handed to you in a single package.
Schedule a Pre-Purchase Inspection
Tell us about the property you are under contract on. We respond within one business day with scope and pricing.
Request an Inspection