National Property Preservation Companies need to hire field inspectors to evaluate homes that have defaulted.
Lending and insurance companies have a heavy workload in the local cities where a documented visual evaluation is needed for commercial properties and foreclosures.
This can be done with drive-by inspections, photo inspections and reports. The types of inspections include occupancy determinations along with property and casualty inspections.
Becoming a property inspector
There are lots of school that sell educational courses on how to become a field inspector for foreclosure bank owned homes. They make it sound like the easiest job in the world. It sounds as if all you need to do is stick up a sign, print some business cards, and you will be able to make lots of money every day.
Remember these schools are in the business of selling classes. They would not be able to sell any classes if they made the profession out to be something that is difficult, dirty and that it takes a while to get it going well enough to do it full time.
The truth about home inspections is that it can be hard work. As a home inspector for appraisals you will find yourself in dark dirty crawl spaces and hot itchy attics. It takes a lot of commitment and determination to consistently enter these places in the name of doing a good job for the client. if you are looking for something to earn you some extra money it may take longer to get contracts.