Home Guides
Practical guides from the inspectors who have been through 3M+ homes, plus notes from the team building EverHome.
- 3M+ inspections behind them
- 24 inspection brands
- every byline named and credentialed
All guides
What actually happens to your home inspection report after closing
Opened twice, then forgotten. What is in yours, and what to do with it tonight.
The best home maintenance apps in 2026, ranked by free tier
Nine apps, including the paid ones, ranked on what their free tiers actually do.
HomeZada alternatives for 2026
Five alternatives written as what each is actually best at, including the case for staying put.
Centriq alternatives: where to go now that the app is gone
What happened to your data, and five places to rebuild it.
What we learn inspecting three million homes, written down for the people who live in them
Two kinds of pieces, one standard: a real name, real credentials, and something the writer actually knows firsthand.
How-tos and system explainers from the people who climb the roof and open the panel, across LaunchPad's inspection brands. What fails, what it looks like before it fails, and what it costs.
First-person pieces on what homeowners actually struggle with, and what we're doing about it. Not inspectors, and we say so in the byline.
In the works
New pieces land every few weeks. These are the topics being written now.
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