Home inspection in Maharishi Vedic City.

Because three different housing types share one small municipality — detached houses, attached townhomes and manufactured or mobile homes — and each is inspected differently. A manufactured home needs its pier and anchoring system, skirting, and marriage-line connections read, which has no equivalent in a stick-built house. An attached townhome raises party-wall, shared-roof and association-maintenance questions that a detached house does not. The median resident age here is around 68, well above the state's, so we also pay attention to the accessibility and single-level details that matter to buyers at that stage. Jefferson County is EPA Radon Zone 1.

Plan on two to three hours for an average home; larger, older or multi-unit properties run longer because there is simply more to document.