House inspection report

Tenant-responsible repairs
$360
Items on the report
97
Defects logged
5
Owner maintenance to raise
$520

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This builds the figures of a house inspection report for a single-family rental, the periodic walk a property manager runs while the tenant is in place. It counts the rooms, exterior items and systems checked, logs the defects in two lists, what the tenant caused and what is the owner's maintenance, prices each at your own costs, and prints them as separate lines with the total, the time on site and the photos. Free, on the page, no account; the paid plan saves it against the house and sends it under your own name.

Two lists, because a periodic inspection has two readers

A house inspection during a tenancy produces two different actions: a charge to the tenant for what they caused, and a maintenance request to the owner for what has worn out or failed. Mixing them into one defects total makes the report useless to both. The tool logs them separately and prints the tenant-responsible figure first, because that is the line that needs a conversation before the next rent.

The exterior and the systems are where a house differs from a flat

A house comes with a roofline, gutters, siding, decking, fencing and drainage that a unit inspection never sees, and with systems, the water heater, the furnace, the panel, the smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, whose failure costs the owner far more than any tenant damage. The tool counts them as their own inputs so the report's scope shows they were walked, and a house inspection that skipped the roofline shows it.

Price it in your figures and send the two lines separately

The tenant's repairs and the owner's maintenance are priced at your own contractor's costs, and they should leave the report as two documents: a charge to the tenant with the photos, and a work request to the owner with the estimate. The tool gives the two figures and the total; the paid plan files the report against the house so the next periodic inspection starts by checking whether the owner's items were done.

House inspection report: common questions

Is this a free house inspection report template?

Yes. It builds the report's figures on the page with no account: rooms, exterior items and systems checked, tenant-caused and maintenance defects as separate lines priced at your costs, the total, the time and the photos. Print it as it stands. WalkthroughDesk Pro adds your agency name and logo, a PDF without our line, and saving it against the house.

Is this the same as a home inspection report?

No. A home inspection report is a pre-purchase survey written by a home inspector for a buyer, covering the structure and systems of a house someone is about to buy. This is the periodic inspection of a rented house by the manager who looks after it, and the report is written for the tenant and the owner rather than a buyer. This site is built for the manager; it does not do pre-purchase inspections.

What should a periodic house inspection check?

Every room for condition and use, the exterior for the items that deteriorate unseen (gutters, roofline, drainage, decking, fencing), and the systems that protect the tenant and the owner: smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, the water heater, the furnace or boiler, the electrical panel and the main shutoffs. The tool counts each group so the report shows they were walked.

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Keeping what you make

The reports are free forever. Pro turns them into your record: your name and logo on it, no watermark, every report filed against the property and the inspection it came from, and a clean export when the owner or the deposit scheme asks.

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  • Save every report and reopen it later
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  • Inspection notices emailed to your tenants ahead of each visit
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