I came to inspections from the damage side
Before SurePoint I worked in water restoration. That work starts after something has already gone wrong — a leak nobody caught, a slow drip behind a cabinet, an AC line that had been wetting a wall cavity for two years. The job was to find the source, and the source was almost never where the damage showed.
Doing that repeatedly changes how you look at a house. You stop trusting surfaces. A ceiling that looks fine can sit under a roof that has been leaking since the last storm. Baseboards that look dry can be wicking slab moisture. Drywall that looks clean can have mould behind it.
I also did mould and moisture inspections in that role, so reading a moisture map, tracing a path and knowing which materials hold water became routine rather than specialist.
An inspection is the same skill pointed at a different moment — before the damage, while finding it still saves you money.
