For realtors, brokers, and property managers in Northern Virginia
Pre-listing audits, fixed quotes, and permitted repairs on the two systems that generate the most inspection findings. We work behind your listing so wiring and HVAC never become the reason a closing slips.
Virginia contractor license, checkable at DPOR
Trades, so one call covers electrical and HVAC
Counties across Northern Virginia
Quotes, so you can advise a client with a number
Good buyer, solid deal, closing days out. Then the report lands and it is a wall of red: safety hazard, at end of life, requires licensed repair. The seller panics, the buyer wants credits, and a date you built weeks around turns into a question mark.
Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels, undersized services, missing AFCI or GFCI protection, backstabbed receptacles. All of it visible to an inspector in minutes and none of it something a seller can talk their way past.
A system at the end of its life reads as a five figure line item on a report whether or not it is running fine today. Buyers price that in, and financially stretched ones walk.
Open grounds, improper bonding, double tapped breakers, a missing disconnect. These are not judgment calls. They go in the report every time.
Most deals close. The ones that do not have a pattern, and it is a pattern this program exists to interrupt.
of contracts terminated in a recent three month window, and between 4% and 7% in every window since March 2023.
Home inspection issues sit at the top of the problems NAR members report on contracts, alongside financing and appraisal.
of contracts had delayed settlements in the same window. A deal does not have to die to cost you.
Figures from the National Association of REALTORS Confidence Index. NAR has separately reported agents turning to pre-listing inspections to prevent canceled contracts, naming an outdated electrical panel as exactly the kind of surprise that makes a stretched buyer walk. These figures move month to month, so check the current report rather than quoting this page.
The instinct against a pre-listing audit is that knowing about a defect creates a duty to disclose it, and in most states that instinct is roughly right. Virginia is one of the few places left where it is not, and that changes the whole calculation.
Under the Residential Property Disclosure Act the seller makes no representations or warranties as to the condition of the property
and is not required to disclose matters relating to it. The statute points the buyer at their own due diligence instead.
Passive non disclosure is one thing. Actively hiding a defect, misrepresenting it, or answering a direct question dishonestly is another entirely, and that is where the real exposure sits.
Not find and bury. A repaired panel with a permit and a dated invoice is not a disclosure problem, it is a selling point, and the buyer's inspector finds a resolved item rather than a red flag.
The practical version. An audit that finds nothing costs you a morning and buys your seller a clean story. An audit that finds something hands you a fixed number and a timeline while you still control both, instead of a five day response window with the other side's agent waiting. Either outcome is better than reading it for the first time on the buyer's report.
We are electricians, not attorneys, and none of this is legal advice. The statute is the Virginia Residential Property Disclosure Act, Virginia Code section 55.1-700 and following. Take your broker's guidance and your client's counsel on how it applies to a particular transaction.
Three steps, and the whole point of the first one is that it happens before you are under contract.
Ideally while the seller is still deciding what to do to the house. We look at the electrical and the HVAC and tell you what an inspector is going to write down.
You get a number your seller can decide on, and a clear split between what genuinely needs doing and what is optional. You can take that into a listing conversation.
The work is done to code, permitted where a permit is required, and you end up with a dated record of what was replaced. That is what turns a red flag on the buyer's report into a resolved line item.
Built around a contract timeline rather than a homeowner one.
Partner requests go to the front of the queue, and same or next day where we have the capacity. Contract timelines do not wait and neither should you.
The problems found while you still control the timeline, rather than during a five day inspection response window with a buyer's agent waiting.
Clean enough to hand to a seller, a buyer's agent, or an attorney, with what we found, what we did, and when.
A number rather than a range, so you can advise a client without hedging and without a surprise appearing halfway through the work.
If a buyer's inspector flags something we did, we return and put it right at no charge. We warrant our own work. Nobody can warrant another inspector's opinion, and you should be wary of anyone who says they can.
Partners get a named contact rather than the general line, so a Friday afternoon problem does not become a Monday problem.
Get ahead of the report instead of negotiating against it.
Get a real number on a flagged system fast, so your client can decide rather than guess.
Keep units code compliant between tenancies, on a schedule rather than on a complaint.
One vetted licensed contractor across the whole office, on consistent terms.
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Electrical and HVAC handled behind your listings across Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington, and Prince William Counties, by one licensed team that knows what a contract timeline looks like.
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