Could anyone please post some feedback on home inspectors for the Washington suburb area (MD)?  Redfin is recommending the following home inspectors:

- US Inspect- Tim Shelton-

- RHSinspections.com David Goldberg

- Ed Sanbower- Bee Sure home inspections

- Itte Associates, Inc. Inspections

- AAA home inspections

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

We used Abode Check (http://www.abodecheck.com/).  They were really thorough. 

They charge a little more and take a little longer.  Home inspection is not an area I wanted to skimp on. 

They have two inspectors.  They arrived at 8:00 to view the outside of the property.  I arrived at 9.  From 9 to12, one of the two inspectors would walk with me around the house educating me on property details.

They are based in VA.  I don't know if they inspect MD or DC properties.

What do you mean by 'electronic reports'. 

My report was in pdf and sent by email.

Electronic inspection reports instead of hand written reports are much easier for us at Redfin to work with, I'm happy to hear that Abode Check is now providing reports by email and I will gladly add them to our list of recommended home inspectors, thanks!

Redfin recommended Brad Strange from guardian home... he was pretty good explaining things around the house and had a pdf report emailed to me the same evening.

RFB - book sounds like a good take-away.  There's no reason not to also get a PDF copy because it can be useful later on if you need to send it to the insurance company, mortgage company or elsewhere.  Best practice might be to do both?

FYI, I also used Abode for my home inspection.  The head guy was former president of the local inspectors assocation.  He was fairly thorough but came off a little arrogant and grandstanding.  Just a personality thing for me.  I would consider using him again and would do a competitive bidding process.