Nov 28, 2022
Why You Need A (100-Day) Guarantee On Your Home Inspection, with John Leon Gonzalez
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John Leon Gonzalez is a Certified Professional Inspector® in Seattle, Washington that has been licensed as a realtor since 2007 both H.I. and WDIR (Pest). He is also certified by the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors® (InterNACHI®) and today he comes to tell us everything about how to have a great inspection in Seattle, Washington. Get In Touch With Our Guest, John Leon Gonzalez
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Laura Moreno:First Time Home Buyers Nation. I am Laura Moreno, and I am super excited to bring you our fantastic guest today. John Leon. Go. John Leon Go is a certified professional inspector in Seattle, Washington. He's also certified by the International Association of Inspectors InterNACHI, and today he comes to tell us everything about how, how to have a great inspection in Seattle when he's not working. He loves to be with his family and to trouble. John, are you ready to flow?
John Leon Gonzalez: Yes, I am. Laura, how are you? Good morning. Good afternoon. Over there in New York, .
Laura Moreno: So I've given a call community, just a little insight now.
Please share more about you personally and then expand upon your business.
John Leon Gonzalez: Yeah. I, uh, I was born in California, just born there, 1956, and my parents, uh, moved up here 65 years ago. So before the end of 56 I was up here in, in, in, uh, in [00:01:00] Seattle. So I've pretty much been grown and raised over here in the Seattle area all over.
And, uh, it's, it's diversified. I love it, you know. Like one day I was a black, One day I was Italian. One day I was Chinese. So you had a, you had a Super bowl of all kinds of, all kinds of traditions and cultures and I love it.
Laura Moreno: So. Wow. And you tell me more about your professional life. You were telling me before, you were in insurance before and then you transition to home inspections.
Tell me more about what you've been working in your life and what do you like about being a home?
John Leon Gonzalez: Yeah, I did. I did insurance for many years and, and I got tired of wearing a suit and a tie. Now I tell people I wear my zoo suit, which is my Tyvek with my hood when I get under a crawlspace. And, uh, I, I've been doing this going on 16 years now.
Uh, as a home inspector. I'm licensed as a home inspector, building inspector, uh, separate past inspector license cuz I also do VAs FHAs whenever they. What they call a W D I R report for W dos. Um, and uh, so I do a lot of it. I also do municipal inspections for the city of Seattle. Other municipalities are now doing that throughout the Puget Sound area here.
Uh, tequila eight years, Seattle eight years. Then we have, can we have, uh, Lakewood, Tacoma, uh, Renton, Bur. Uh, so we have all those, and I've been doing those for several years. Some of these just got on like three years ago with period. Lakewood. I was our first safety inspector out there. So I'm pretty busy and, and, and I love working, but I, I love to, uh, see when people are buying a house, they're buying a lot of, a lot of, uh, they have a lot of money invested in this.
So for me, giving. [00:03:00] Uh, everything that I can from, from the attic, the roof of the crawlspace, the appliances, you know, not so much the appliance, but the mechanical components like the electrical system, your HVAC system, your plumbing system. You wanna make sure those are working in. And, and, and a lot of times people usually don't go underneath their crawlspace, but I have to.
It is because of a lady that way. I got my license, I followed her, and I didn't really wanna get into a crawlspace, but because part of. Part of your business. So down there, you know, I see sometimes broken pipes, you know, uh, leaking pipes. I see, uh, 90% of the time I wanna see roads, you know, So that's not really a wdo.
Uh, but it can, uh, you wanna know if there's a lot of it down there. Either way, 90% of the time I might see that. So I'll let 'em know, Hey, you might wanna have some pest control remediation. So, uh, they don't get inside sometimes. You can't, uh, stop that [00:04:00] because there's Norwegian rats that go up through the ground up and, uh, then the world are hose like moles or whatever to get in there.
And sometimes it's a very nasty place. You know, you got sewage, you got open sewage, you got, uh, you have, uh, a lot of molds. It depends. Seattle's a very wet place, so it just depends. It could be a newer home, it could be an older home. So it just depends. Uh, where I'm at, you know, you can walk across the street and you might have three inches of, of water on the, on the ground.
In, in the house that I'm at might not have any, you know, so there's always moisture if you load there, cause water comes up, moisture comes up. So that's why you have the vapor barrier. And sometimes that's, that's missing. So, uh, either way, I love what I do because I, I, I, I not only bring out the problems, but accentuate the positive.
Cause people are usually looking at their, Because they, uh, they like it, you know, So I try not to be a, a deal killer, but sometimes [00:05:00] people will back up and they either, you know, gonna get, uh, some kind of a, uh, reduction and, and, and the price of the house, uh, or, or maybe these things are gonna be rectified, you know, or they back up altogether.
And usually that's not the case. They, the…