Experience You Can Trust

William Knight started High Tide Inspections after more than twenty years building and renovating houses. That order matters. Most of what an inspector needs to know is not learned in a classroom — it is learned by actually having done the trade.

The practical result is that a finding usually comes with context. A double-tapped breaker is not just a red line item; it is a fifteen-minute fix by a licensed electrician and worth exactly that much in a negotiation. A stained ceiling below a bathroom is either a wax ring or a supply line, and there is a way to tell which before you spend money finding out. 20+ years of construction and renovation experience is the difference between a report that lists conditions and a report that tells you what to do about them.

He is InterNACHI certified, Florida licensed and insured, and holds certifications as a wind mitigation inspector, a roof inspector and 4-point certification — the credentials Florida insurers care about most. Every inspection is performed to the InterNACHI Standards of Practice, which is a published document you are welcome to read before you book.

A photo-documented PDF report, emailed to you, normally the next day. Not a checklist with initials in boxes — photographs of the actual condition, a plain description of what it is, why it matters, and whether it is a safety issue, a maintenance item, or something to get priced before your inspection period closes.

You are welcome to walk the house with us. Most buyers who do say it was the most useful two hours of the transaction, because the report makes far more sense when you have seen the attic yourself. If you cannot be there, the photographs are taken with that in mind.

Forward it to your agent, your lender, or your insurer. Wind mitigation and 4-point reports are produced on the state forms carriers require, so there is nothing to translate on the other end.

We do not quote repairs on the houses we inspect. An inspector who also sells the repair has an obvious reason to find more of them. We tell you what we found and roughly what that class of work costs; who fixes it is your decision and we do not take a referral fee for it.

We do not soften a report to keep an agent happy. A fair number of our inspections come through agent referrals, and we are grateful for them. It does not change what goes in the report. An agent who wants a quiet report is not one we want to work with twice.

We do not invent findings to look thorough. A house in good condition gets a short report, and that is a legitimate outcome. Padding a report to justify the fee wastes your negotiating leverage on items that do not deserve it.

We do not publish a license number we cannot verify on this page. William is Florida licensed and insured; ask and we will send the current certificate before you book rather than post a number here you have no way to check.