What the heck is an Indagator?

In this case, it's a home inspector who does his job a little differently. As you may know, home inspectors typically work for people who are considering the purchase of a house. Home inspectors look a house over, then explain what they see, usually in a checklist-style report.

A few years back, the folks you'll meet on this website realized that even though they were calling themselves home inspectors, they weren't doing the usual type of home-inspection job. These folks - who as you'll see, have rich and varied backgrounds - see home inspection not as a trade, but as a profession, an art and a science. They base their observations and opinions not so much on local folklore as on reliable, published information. They communicate with their customers not so much through check-boxes and margin notes, but by way of plain English, written in complete sentences. It's safe to say that these Indagators aren't just home inspectors, they're home inspection experts.

We created an online community in 1998, when we realized that there was no Internet "home" for home inspectors who took our approach to the job. We needed a name. One of the group members suggested, "Indagators." Indagate is an archaic word that means, "investigate." We liked the sound of it, we liked the logo possibilities, and we settled on it.

Lately, we've decided that an Indagator presence on the Internet might just be a good and useful thing. As this website grows, we'll be fielding questions about houses, how they work, and how they fail. We'll also share some interesting and fun stuff, like pictures from our Hall of Shame, and tales of Big Lies We've Heard.

Please check back frequently.