ARMADA INSPECTION SERVICES
Certified and Insured Home Inspection Services
NOTICE: A medical concern has caused us to pause all home inspection activities effective 26-April-2025, until the issue can be dealt with.
We appreciate your understanding.
Available 7 Days a Week with Scheduling to Fit Your Needs
Contact Richard and Carol Anne
Buying a home is the biggest investment most people will ever make, that’s why having an honest, experienced and qualified home inspection team on your side helps even the odds. We do not work for or answer to any agents, we answer ONLY to our clients.
A gentleman called us, “I wanted to call you, but my wife booked the inspector our realtor highly recommended. We think we were lied to.” We visited the property outside Brockville and found multiple issues that were clearly identifiable, but were never reported. Two pellet stoves were run until they failed, then cleaned up to look nice. They paid extra to have these inspected. $2,000 to repair these stoves. The sellers said they never used them. The sellers lied. The homes two gas fireplaces both had significant code violations, and both were only repairable by replacement at an estimated cost of $10,000 each. This couple would have never purchased the property if they were told the truth about it’s condition.
They used a Realtor and a Home Inspector they will never use again.
One Of The BEST Realty Tools Today
Realtors DO NOT want you to know about websites such as this. Do NOT let your agent know you know.
This website & app can provide a properties sale history, past listing pictures, descriptions, assessed value….It may also show you if you have been lied to, cause THAT would never happen….
Example: A property is listed for $500,000 and you are told to expect competing offers so you submit an offer of $540,000 with NO conditions. You find out later that your offer was not accepted, that there was a better offer. You look up the property to find out it was sold for $520,000, so you think WTF?
Did the seller even know about your offer? Did the offer accepted involve two agents from the same office or association? Did the listing agent talk their clients into an offer where they collected both sides of the commission? What’s going on?
Be Warned…..Most will do everything they can to convince you that it is not accurate and not to be trusted….Yeah.
Honesty, Integrity, and Trust
Honesty, Integrity, and Trust matter. We tell our clients the truth, so they can decide for themselves what is best for them.
At the end of 2024, the estimated number of realtors in the province of Ontario alone, exceeded 105,000.
In comparison, the total manpower of the Canadian Armed forces, including Reserves, is approx. 90,000.
An agent was double ending the sale of a property. I was outside with one of my clients showing them exterior details, details that were damaged on the other side of the home but were repairable. The agent looked out the window and saw me pointing out spots on the homes exterior. The absolute look of FEAR on the agents face made me look toward the street as maybe a child had wondered into traffic. They ran outside, panicked and out of breath, yelling “what are we looking at?”. We stood their staring at the agent. The thought of loosing that $50,000 commission was more then they could bare, and it showed.
Richard and Carol Anne are advocates for honesty and integrity in real estate transactions. Realtors in Leeds-Grenville try to talk their clients into using someone else, someone who is ‘easy’ to deal with. It’s sad when they see a reliable and accurate service as a threat to their business model, but here we are.
You don’t have to LIE to be a liar. Half truths. Twisted truths. Omitted details. Any effort to deliberately deceive is a lie.
The types of issues we see far too often….
The listing agent was well aware of the false and misleading listing info, but it was never changed. They always have an excuse to cover their ass.
The properties listing info identified the homes A/C as being installed in 2016. Wrong…
The Condensers serial number identifies the unit was made in July 1999. (28= Week) (99= Year Produced) At 25 years old, it has no value, except for costing you around $5,500 to replace, after you bought the problem.
The 30 Minute Inspection
We arrive in Brockville to complete a home inspection. Our clients agent asks us if it possible to complete a home inspection in 30 minutes. The answer, “Absolutely Not”.
It turns out an inspection was completed two days prior at one of their listings. The buyer hired the highly recommended inspector their agent told them to use. The listing agent knows when the inspection will begin so they go by just before to make sure the house is ready. 40 minutes after the inspection was to start the listing agent sees the ‘Inspector’ on the other side of town. They call the buyers agent later to see if the inspection was cancelled. They are told that everything went well. Turns out the buyers agent was never at the property. The clients? Well, they received a bogus looking report of some sort.
The sad truth is that there are very successful inspection companies today, all for the wrong reasons.
Why We Test For Carbon Monoxide (CO) and conduct Combustible Gas leak testing
Exposure to CO is extremely dangerous, it is odorless, tasteless, it can make you very sick, and it can kill.
A home inspector that reports “the furnace worked the day of the inspection” is putting your families safety at risk, and it ends up costing you after you own the $7,000 problem. They get endless referrals.
We know. We see these reports when we conduct inspections for very upset home buyers. A second inspection is the first step in the long legal process.
Natural Gas contains Benzine, a compound tied to Leukemia and other blood related issues.
Richard knows what he is looking at and looking for, including 27 year old appliances leaking carbon monoxide into the home due to a failure like the perforated primary heat exchanger he found here.
“We’ve used inspection services in the past and can honestly say this was the most knowledgeable and complete one we’ve had. Richard was thorough and didn’t leave any stone unturned. Money well spent. “
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- Broken Truss
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- In Wall Radiant Heating
Do You Need a WETT Inspection?
A few homes will have a fireplace, wood stove, wood furnace, or even a pellet stove or two. Were they installed properly? Do they even work? Are they safe? Anyone can install their own wood burning appliances and it happens every day, with no inspection ever being completed. All appliances are also not made equal. An Inspection by a Certified Technician will tell you what you have, if it’s certified, and most importantly if it is installed correctly and safe to use.
Almost every home inspection company offers WETT Inspections. “We do WETT Inspections”. Makes it sound like there is only one standard. There are actually three levels of WETT Inspections here in Canada. The vast majority of home inspectors are certified to complete only Level 1 WETT Inspections. A WETT Level 1 (Visual) Inspection is the lowest standard. This is a popular level of certification to get as a home inspector, as they can provide their own company letter of reference. That’s convenient. The WETT Level 1 inspection does have its place and use, but not as an appliances primary inspection.
It took Richard 8 years to become a WETT Certified Advanced Technician. Only 2 other Home Inspectors in Ontario are WETT Certified Technicians. Richard is currently the only Home Inspector who is a WETT SITE Comprehensive Inspector, and he is also a Certified Advanced Chimney Sweep, Installer, and Solid Fuel Burning System Advisor. Richard will switch from a WETT Level 1 (Visual) inspection to a WETT Level 2 (Technical) Inspection when he sees the need at no additional cost. If Richard sees enough during the home inspection to tell him there are issues, he will tell you beforehand, saving you the cost of the WETT Inspection. He will discuss the issues found, along with his concerns, and you can decide how to proceed.
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