Camelot Home Inspection Services

Certified ASHI and Master CREIA Home Inspector Providing Affordable Home Inspections in San Luis Obispo County and surrounding Central Coast Communities

"Providing Quality, Affordable Home Inspections on the Central Coast Since 1994"

Looking for a San Luis Obispo area home inspector? Camelot Home Inspection Services is a locally owned and operated San Luis Obispo home inspection company serving the entire California Central Coast, from Santa Maria to the south and Cambria and Paso Robles to the north. Camelot serves the Central Coast communities of Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Avila Beach, Cambria, Cayucos, Grover Beach, Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo, Los Osos, Morro Bay, Nipomo, Oceano, Orcutt, Paso Robles, Pismo Beach, Santa Margarita, Shell Beach and Templeton.

Camelot Home Inspection Services specializes in the pre-purchase and pre-sale evaluation of single and multi-family residential properties on the CA Central Coast. We inspect single family homes, condominiums, townhomes, duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, manufactured homes (a.k.a. mobile homes), modular homes, and small commercial properties.

Do you want the best home inspector you can find? Or just the cheapest? Here are some important things you should know before selecting a home inspector...Read on >>

Established in 1994, Camelot Home Inspection Services is owned and operated by Martin Hewitt, a Master CREIA (California Real Estate Inspection Assn.) inspector and Certified ASHI (American Society of Home Inspectors) Inspector with over 27 years of home inspection experience. In California, where there is no licensing of home inspectors, dual certification with ASHI and CREIA demonstrates a dedication to ethics, education and service above and beyond the norm. Which is something to keep in mind as you shop around looking for the best home inspectors in your area. Because if pretty much anybody in California can claim to be a home inspector, they should have the experience and credentials to prove it. Your purchase decision depends on it.

Martin P. Hewitt, ACI

Certified ASHI Member No. 202935

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Martin P. Hewitt, MCI

Master CREIA Inspector No. 39

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At Camelot, we strive to provide every home buyer with a level of service that matches the significance of the purchase— which very well could be the single largest investment in one's life, be it a manufactured home or a mega-mansion. With every home inspection comes years of education, training and professional experience. Martin Hewitt, your home inspector, will share this knowledge with you to help ensure that your investment decision is an informed one.

To avoid any perceived conflict of interest, Camelot cannot and will not perform any corrective or repair work on homes that we inspect, nor do we refer any repair work. Camelot Home Inspection Services is not aligned or affiliated with any real estate companies or brokerage firms. There is no good reason why we should be. When you hire us, we go to work for you and nobody else.

Camelot Home Inspection Services serves the Central Coast communities of Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Avila Beach, Cambria, Cayucos, Grover Beach, Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo, Los Osos, Morro Bay, Nipomo, Oceano, Orcutt, Paso Robles, Pismo Beach, Santa Margarita, Shell Beach and Templeton.

However, we can certainly appreciate a home buyer's reluctance to use a local home inspector referred to them by an unfamiliar real estate agent. For this reason, and as our schedule permits, we will gladly travel outside of our 'normal' service area, thus guaranteeing you an impartial and unbiased home inspection. These areas include the Central Coast communities in and around Santa Barbara, including Buellton, Goleta, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, and Solvang.

Contact Us

If you would like to contact us, well, we'd like that too...

805-471-9447

Sample Inspection Report

Please click here to view a recent home inspection report. Then compare it to what the others have to offer to experience the difference.
Spoiler Alert: The difference is experience.

First Time Homebuyer?

If this is your first time buying a home, please read this first!

One of the things I hear fairly frequently from my clients at the end of an inspection is how much they wish they'd hired me the first time they bought a house. And how they regret having made the mistake of letting their agent choose their inspector for them. Although it would be easy to dismiss this as flattery, I actually find it rather disturbing.

One of the things many agents will tell a first time home buyer is that they know a "good" home inspector who is "cheap." To a first time home buyer, this sounds great. They've been nickel and dimed to death already, and any money they can save is welcomed at this point. What they don't know is that the discount home inspector who has been chosen for them completely lacks the experience, knowledge, credibility, and the insurance needed to properly safeguard their investment.

Unfortunately, by not vetting and choosing their own home inspector, these buyers had given their agents free rein to choose somebody that they had worked with before and would not, as many less scrupulous agents have put it, "screw up their deal".

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FAQ's

Frequently asked questions on home inspections:

What is a home inspection?

A home inspection is an objective visual examination of the physical structure and systems of a house, from the roof to the foundation.

What does a home inspection include?
The standard home inspector’s report will cover the condition of the home’s heating system; central air conditioning system (temperature permitting); interior plumbing and electrical systems; the roof, attic and visible insulation; walls, ceilings, floors, windows and doors; the foundation, basement and structural components.

Why do I need a home inspection?
Buying a home could be the largest single investment you will ever make. To minimize unpleasant surprises and unexpected difficulties, you’ll want to learn as much as you can about the newly constructed or existing house before you buy it. A home inspection may identify the need for major repairs or builder oversights, as well as the need for maintenance to keep it in good shape. After the inspection, you will know more about the house, which will allow you to make decisions with confidence.

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Home Inspection Photos

Here are a few images taken at some recent home inspections. Some commentary provided...

Home Inspection Video

Here is a simple video we created, mainly to appease the search engine gods, out of some of the images above...