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Ricketts, IA · Crawford County

Home inspection in Ricketts.

Closer Look Inspectors provides home inspection in Ricketts, Crawford County. Every Ricketts inspection is documented in a photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours.

Local knowledge

Why Ricketts homes need a local read.

Ricketts is a Middle Soldier River railroad town of about a hundred people, platted in 1899. We calibrate every Ricketts inspection to the conditions that actually drive defects here — not a generic national checklist.

Ricketts housing runs to a small stock of houses from the 1899 rail town and its early-1900s rebuilding, some vacant or lightly used, with a few later homes, across the small townsite along the old rail line on the Middle Soldier River, and the farm ground around it, on loess-mantled drift plain along the Middle Soldier River in the Southern Iowa Drift Plain.

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The report

Built to negotiate with.

Every inspection is documented in a clear, photo-mapped digital report delivered within 24 hours — written in plain English. Thermal imaging, moisture metering and a sewer-scope option are available as add-ons on applicable Ricketts systems.

How it works

Four steps, no guesswork.

01

Get a quote

Build your free quote online in about a minute — or call us to talk it through.

02

We inspect

A patient on-site visit. Thermal, moisture and sewer-scope instruments available as add-ons.

03

Walkthrough

An on-the-spot rundown of the key findings, in plain English.

04

Get the report

A photo-mapped digital report within 24 hours, built to negotiate with.

Questions

Common questions.

Ricketts fell from 145 people to 109 in ten years. What does that mean for a house here?
It means more vacant and lightly used houses than a growing town would have. Ricketts was platted in 1899 with the Boyer Valley Railroad, lost much of its business district to a fire in 1907, and rebuilt. Houses that sit empty over winters can have frozen and split supply lines, dry traps, rodent entry, failed sump pumps and roofs no one has looked at. We date the wiring, plumbing, heating and roof, check the foundation and drainage, and find out whether the well and septic are live. Crawford County is EPA Radon Zone 1.
How long does an inspection take?
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.
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