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Home inspectors
Inspect the house for a buyer during the conditions. Their guide and listings are on the inspectors' page.
For the business side: the playbook for a home inspector. Page reviewed 30 Oct 2026.
When people need them
- The offer and its conditions
Records that matter to the work2
- Thinking about it
- Getting ready to sell
- Searching and financing
- The offer and its conditions
- Closing and moving
- The first 90 days
- Making it yours
- Adding a unit or renting it out
- Living there
The records that matter to this work
- What building permits are on record for the home?Permits and renovations
- Is the home in a basement flooding study area, and what kind of sewer serves the street?Basement flooding and sewers
An OfferDue report reads these for one address, with the source and date of every line.
Licences and registers to check
Ontario has no licence or public register for this work that we know of. People commonly ask for references, proof of liability insurance and, where the business has workers, a WSIB clearance.
Looking for home inspectors?
Tell us what you need in a few lines and we reply by email. Businesses are only starting to be listed, so a request comes to us, not to any business.
Home inspectors listed on OfferDue
Their guide, with the stages of a sale where they come in and the firms listed so far, is the For home inspectors.
At the same moment
Public-record information, not legal, financial, insurance or inspection advice. A listing on OfferDue is not a recommendation; check licences and references yourself. Who does what in an Ontario offer.