Inspections get booked the day the offer is accepted.
Inspections get booked the day the offer lands. A home inspection answering service that answers from an attic and books inside the period.
Home inspections run on a tight contractual clock — the inspection period is days, not weeks, so the booking happens immediately and goes to whoever answers. Worse, the caller is often a realtor, and a realtor who cannot reach you once simply uses a different inspector for every client after that. One missed call can cost a referral stream.
You spend your working day inside the thing that makes you unreachable — attics, crawlspaces, roofs — while the calls arrive the moment an offer is accepted, which is whenever it happens. The job that makes you money is the job that stops you winning the next one.
A call it takes without you.
Thanks for calling — is this for a property under contract?
Yes, my clients just got an offer accepted in Lake Worth.
Great. Roughly what square footage, and when does the inspection period end?
About 2,100 square feet, and we've got until Friday.
I can do Wednesday morning. Can I take the address and your name for the file?
- ✓Calls answered while you're in an attic or a crawlspace
- ✓Property, square footage and closing date captured
- ✓Inspections booked into your calendar
- ✓Referring agent recorded on every booking
It quotes from your own rules — square footage bands, age of property, and any add-ons like wind mitigation, four-point or pool. That is arithmetic, not judgement, and doing it on the call is what gets the booking rather than a promise to ring back with a number.
Home Inspectors answering service — questions
Does it capture which agent referred the job?+
Yes, on every booking. Knowing which realtors actually send work is the difference between guessing at your referral sources and managing them.
Can it book add-on services?+
Yes — wind mitigation, four-point, pool and termite inspections are offered alongside the main booking, which is where most add-on revenue is won or lost.
What about scheduling around the closing date?+
The agent asks when the inspection period ends and books inside it, which avoids the scheduling mistake that costs you the client and the agent.
How quickly can it be live?+
Two to four business days, built around your pricing bands, your add-ons and your calendar.
How does an answering service work?+
Your business line is forwarded to the service, either all the time or only when you don't pick up. From the caller's side nothing changes — they dial your number and somebody answers. Ours answers, asks the questions you've set, and books the appointment into your calendar, then the details reach you.
What is an answering service?+
A service that answers your business phone when you can't. Traditionally that meant an off-site operator taking a message for you to return later. An AI answering service handles the call to a finished outcome instead — qualifying the caller and booking the job rather than passing you a message slip.
How much does an answering service cost?+
Most small businesses pay between $200 and $1,500 a month depending on volume and whether calls are handled by people or AI. Per-minute plans typically run $1.00–$2.00 a minute, per-call plans $1.50–$3.50 a call. Ours are flat: $249/mo with 500 included minutes, or $995/mo with 2,000.
What are the advantages of an answering service?+
Three that matter. Every call is answered, so enquiries stop going to voicemail. Several calls are answered at once, so nobody gets a busy signal on your busiest day. And it covers the hours you can't — nights, weekends and holidays — which is when the most urgent calls tend to arrive.
How do I choose an answering service?+
Call it before you buy it. Published pricing, no long-term contract, and a service built around your trade rather than a generic script all matter — but the only reliable test is hearing how it handles a call. Our demo line is a real number that answers at any hour.
What should I look for in a call answering service?+
Whether it books or only takes messages; what it costs when you exceed the plan; whether hold time and robocalls are billable; how quickly it goes live; and whether it can be briefed on what counts as an emergency in your trade. Ask for the overage rate specifically — it is the number most often left out of a quote.
Stop losing the calls you never hear.
Plans start at $249 a month. Live in two to four business days.