Brooklyn's housing stock is older than most of the country's, and it fails in specific, predictable ways. The inspection is built around that.
A generic inspection checklist does not account for a building put up in 1900 and renovated four times since. These are the conditions that show up repeatedly in Brooklyn properties.
Brownstone and brick facades, repointing condition, lintels, and spalling. Masonry repair on a Brooklyn townhouse is among the most expensive work a new owner can face, and deterioration is visible well before failure.
Cellar walls, floor framing, visible cracking patterns and evidence of prior underpinning or repair. Older Brooklyn buildings settle; the question is whether movement is historic and stable or active.
Original supply and waste lines, mixed-material plumbing from successive renovations, and legacy wiring including knob-and-tube where present. Insurers and lenders treat some of these conditions as material, which makes finding them before contract worth more than finding them after.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Park Slope, Crown Heights, Bay Ridge, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Flatbush, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights, Carroll Gardens and the rest of the borough.
Knowing which conditions are normal for a building of a given era and which ones signal a real problem is the difference between a report that creates anxiety and a report that supports a decision. Every inspection comes with a written report within 24 hours.
Yes. Brooklyn townhouses, brownstones and small multi-family buildings are a core part of the work.
Yes, with scope adjusted to what a unit owner is actually responsible for versus building-wide systems.