mc2inspections.com is an independent reference on the home inspection itself — who commissions one and when, what happens on the day, what the report says, and what to do with it afterward. The site performs no inspections. It schedules nothing, quotes nothing, sells nothing, and refers no one to anybody. There is no booking form here, no telephone number, no directory of inspectors and no price list. Those absences are deliberate, not unfinished work.
Who is responsible for this site
This site is published by Stonebriar Property Inspections, a home inspection company in Plano, Texas. Naming the publisher matters more than it may appear. Most of what is written about home inspections online is published anonymously, or under a house byline belonging to a marketing agency, and a reader has no way to judge whether the person who wrote it has ever opened an electrical panel or stood in an attic in August. The publisher here has.
What the publisher does not do is take work from this site. mc2inspections.com carries no link to the publisher's own business, no route for contacting it, no service area and no availability. The reference and the practice are kept apart on purpose. A reference that quietly funnels its readers into the author's order book stops being a reference, and a reader who cannot tell which one they are reading has been badly served.
The expertise this rests on, and where it stops
The material here rests on first-hand practitioner experience in residential inspection rather than on reading about it. Keith Boggs is a licensed Texas real estate inspector, TREC license #9867, and a licensed termite technician with the Texas Department of Agriculture, license #0572333. The working knowledge that shows up in these pages — what an inspector is required to operate and what they may only observe, which findings get written up and in what language, why a summary page is organized the way it is, what happens when a buyer's agent calls the morning after about a single line item — comes from doing the work.
Why a reference like this exists
Two problems made the site worth building. The first is vocabulary. The home inspection has no standardized language across the United States. One report calls a finding a deficiency, another a material defect, a third a major concern or a safety hazard, and the same physical condition can appear under any of those headings depending on the state, the standard the inspector works to, and the reporting software they bought. A reader told that their report contains four major concerns cannot easily find out what that phrase commits anyone to, because in most places it commits no one to anything in particular. Pages here spend their time on that gap rather than pretending it is closed.
The second problem is authorship. Almost everything published about inspections is written by parties who sell them: inspection firms, franchise marketing departments, lead-generation sites that resell the reader's contact details, and brokerages with an interest in a transaction closing on schedule. That writing is not usually dishonest. It answers the question the seller wants answered, which is rarely the question the reader arrived with. A reader asking whether an inspection is worth commissioning at all, or whether a finding justifies walking away, is not well served by a page whose purpose is to produce a booking.
How these pages are made
Sources are gathered as primary documents. That means state administrative codes and statutes, the standards of practice a state adopts or a membership body publishes, federal forms and the instructions issued with them, and agency publications from bodies such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Trade blogs, franchise marketing and aggregator summaries are read to learn what people are asking and are never used as the source of a fact.
Every figure that appears on this site is traced to a named document with a resolvable URL, and the document is named in the text where the figure is used rather than buried in a list at the bottom. A number that cannot be traced that way does not go on the page, and it is not reconstructed from adjacent facts that happen to be available. Where a figure would be true today and quietly wrong in a year — cost above all — the page describes the structure instead: what drives it, why it varies, what is bundled and what is billed separately.
Before a page publishes, three checks are made by hand. Every cited URL is fetched and opened to confirm that it still resolves and still carries the passage being relied on, because agencies reorganize their sites and standards bodies reissue documents under new numbering. Every quoted figure is read in the source rather than carried over from a draft, since a transcription error survives review far more easily than a bad argument does. And every claim about what an inspector must or may do is checked against the specific standard or code section cited, not against a general sense of what is usual.
Dates on this site mean something. A page's published date is set once. Its modified date advances only when the authored content of that page changes — when a sentence is rewritten, a figure corrected, a source replaced. Rebuilding the site, changing the stylesheet, regenerating the navigation or republishing the whole collection does not move it. A site that re-dates every page on every rebuild is telling its readers that everything was reviewed today, which is not true, and the reader who most needs the date is the one being misled.
When sources disagree
On this subject they disagree constantly, and the disagreement is often the content rather than an obstacle to it. A state standard of practice and a membership standard can require different things of the same inspector. Two states can define material defect in terms that do not overlap. A federal form and a state disclosure form can ask for the same information in incompatible categories. Where that happens, both positions are set out, each attributed to the document it comes from, with a note on which one governs in which circumstances. Picking the tidier answer and presenting it as settled would read better and would be worse.
The same rule applies to figures that everyone repeats and nobody sources. Where a commonly quoted number has no reliable primary source behind it, the page says so and describes what was searched. Some readers find that unsatisfying. It is still better than passing along a number because it is the number in circulation.
What this site will not do
- It will not arrange, schedule, sell or price an inspection, and has no way to do any of those things.
- It will not recommend, rank, rate, score or refer an inspector, firm or franchise. No individual inspector or company is named or assessed anywhere in the reference material.
- It will not publish inspection fees. Cost is described structurally, for the reason given above.
- It will not read your report, interpret a finding, or tell you whether something an inspector wrote down is serious. That judgment belongs to somebody who has been in the building.
- It will not take payment for placement, for coverage, or for a link.
Who this is written for
Mainly for people deciding something under a clock: a buyer inside a contingency or option period working out what scope to commission and what to do with what comes back, an owner approaching the end of a builder's first-year warranty, a landlord documenting a unit between tenancies, an heir with a property and no history of it. The pages are also written to survive being read over that person's shoulder by an agent, an attorney or an inspector, which is why they cite standards and code sections rather than gesturing at them.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we would rather fix it than defend it. Corrections that arrive with a primary source attached — a code section, a statute, a standard of practice, an agency page — are the ones that can be verified and applied quickly. The contact page explains what is useful to include.
What this site is not
Nothing here is legal, real estate, engineering or insurance advice, and reading it creates no professional relationship of any kind. Inspection standards, licensing rules and contract deadlines vary by state and change; the documents that govern your situation are the ones that apply where the property is and the contract you actually signed. Consult a licensed professional in that state before acting on anything you read here.