A commissioned buyer-leverage analysis of a home inspection report, produced alongside a separately editable repair-request letter tuned to the contract's contingency language. Delivered inside the window that matters.
A home inspection is a thick document full of observations. It is not a ranked list, not a negotiation plan, and not a letter. The Inspection Analysis translates that document into the two artifacts a buyer actually needs during contingency: a written analysis that tells you what you are looking at, and a letter that asks for it. Both are produced together so the narrative in the analysis matches the asks in the letter.
A structured read of the inspection organized around what actually moves a negotiation.
A separately delivered Word document you or your agent can edit, sign, and send to the listing side.
You have an inspection report, an inspection contingency, and a short window to decide what to ask for. You want to know what matters, how much leverage you actually have, and what to put in writing.
You represent a buyer inside contingency and you need a defensible analysis and a clean letter that reads well on the listing side. You do not have time to write both from scratch every deal.
In attorney-review states you want structured input before drafting. The analysis gives you finding-level classification and pattern signals; the companion letter is a working first draft.
Every other professional in the transaction has a structural reason not to spend hours translating a sixty-page inspection into buyer leverage. Shim is the professional whose entire job that is, with no downstream incentive attached to whether the deal closes.
Documents the condition of the house and delivers a report. Work ends there. Not paid to rank findings by leverage, translate severity into negotiation posture, or draft the ask.
Helps draft a response to the listing side, but only earns commission if the deal closes. The structural incentive tilts toward keeping the deal alive, not toward pressing every concession the report would support.
Reviews contingency language and, in attorney-review states, touches the final letter. Paying counsel to spend three hours reading a sixty-page inspection to extract leverage doesn't pencil out for most deals.
Arrives with a clear agenda and often a preferred contractor ready to set the cost narrative. The buyer meets that side of the table without a dedicated counterpart of their own.
Shim is compensated when the commission is accepted and the report is produced. Whether the deal closes, renegotiates, or collapses has no effect on the fee. The only inputs are what the inspection says and what the contract permits.
Email the inspection report and the contingency deadline on the contract. A flat fee of $249 is quoted and invoiced at commission, before production starts.
One operator reads the report end to end, classifies every finding, detects patterns, and builds the eight-section analysis and the companion repair-request letter in parallel.
Both deliverables arrive by email. The analysis PDF is final; the Word letter is editable so you, your agent, or your attorney can shape the final version before it goes out.
Every Inspection Analysis follows the same eight-section structure. A redacted sample is available so you can see the shape of the deliverable before you commission one of your own.
Sample
A real eight-section analysis from a prior commission, redacted of buyer and property identifying detail. Useful for seeing how findings are classified, how patterns are called out, and how the companion repair-request letter tracks back to the analysis.
A seller concession on a single major system (roof, HVAC, foundation, sewer line, electrical service) typically clears four figures when the scope is real. One credit that would have otherwise been absorbed recovers multiples of the fee. One defect pattern surfaced before close can be worth an order of magnitude more. The flat fee is set against that reality, not against the hours of production behind it.
Covers both deliverables and the turnaround window. One price, regardless of report length or finding count.
The fee is the same whether the deal closes, renegotiates, or collapses. Shim is not compensated on outcome, only on producing the report that lets a buyer act clearly inside the window.
Fill out a short intake form. We respond with acceptance, a turnaround commitment, and a payment link. No documents until we have an accepted engagement.
