Meet the Inspector and His Wife

I've been blogging on "Old Gits and Tarts" since June. Mostly I write about our travels and the everyday things that happen. This blog will focus on the home inspection business. Mark has a blog to help readers with tips for maintaining their properties. I'll leave that to Mark. I want to focus on the real things that happen. These things range from humorous to outrageous to unbelievable. But first, some background information about us, and our company - Yellow Hat Inspections.

Mark has been a practicing licensed home inspector in Texas for six years. His undergraduate degree is in industrial engineering and he has a master's degree in education. He's a native of the UK and a refugee from Corporate America. (Even while living in the UK, he worked primarily for American companies after leaving British Aircraft Corporation.)

I've been assisting him for five years, ever since I was invited to leave Corporate America. I answer the phone, manage his schedule, do the accounting, and help with the marketing. My undergraduate degree is in Interdisciplinary Studies (split evenly among Communications, Social Studies, and Psychology) and I also have a master's degree in education.

Yellow Hat Inspections was not named after the man in the Curious George books. The image we use on our logo is a yellow hard hat. So every time you see someone in a yellow hard hat, now you can think of us. Several people have told us the name is absolutely brilliant. We think so, too. After kicking around several different names and trying to play off of Mark being British, we settled on Yellow Hat (which has nothing at all to do with being British). It sure makes branding a breeze. (If you want to know more about the company, click here.)

As I said, I plan to write about things that happen within the business. From my perspective, not necessarily from Mark's. We interact with clients, realtors, builders, marketeers and a host of others. Not to worry. Names will be changed (or more likely, not used) to protect the guilty. (I've found that the innocent rarely need protection.)