Tennessee Home Inspection Checklist
The five things to check in any report, plus eight checks that only exist because the house is in Tennessee.
This is the Tennessee add-on to our national inspection checklist, eight extra checks for a buyer-controlled disclosure waiver, karst sinkhole risk, New Madrid earthquake exposure, and separate radon licensing that don't exist anywhere else. See the general Home Inspection Report Checklist
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- The same five report checks that catch gaps between the walkthrough and the write-up
- Eight Tennessee-only checks covering the state's disclosure and disclaimer rules, Middle Tennessee sinkhole risk, New Madrid earthquake exposure, and termite pressure
- Built around Tennessee's own geology and disclosure law, not a generic list with the state name swapped in
What's inside
5 universal checks + 8 Tennessee-only checks. 13 total in the free PDF.
Section A: Universal checks
- Confirm every space you'd expect is actually in the report.Attic, crawl space, basement, electrical panel. If the listing or the inspector mentioned it out loud, it should show up in writing somewhere.
- Check whether the report's length matches how long the inspection took.A three-hour walkthrough that turns into two pages is a mismatch worth a phone call.
- Compare what the inspector said out loud to what ended up in writing.If you took notes during the walkthrough, pull them out and read both side by side.
Section A: Universal checks
Section B: Tennessee-only checks
“This gets you far enough to know when to ask a harder question, in Tennessee specifically. It won't tell you whether a foundation crack is ordinary settling or karst movement, how to weigh earthquake coverage against the odds, or what a finding is actually worth at the negotiating table. That's the difference between noticing a report was softened and knowing what it was softened from. That's Don't Use Their Inspector.”
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