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New construction punch list
A buyer before closing on a new buildYou get one walkthrough and a house full of small items. Spotting them is easy. Handing the builder something they act on rather than argue with is the hard part.
You walk out with: A punch list grouped room by room, every item photographed and circled, in the order someone would walk the house.
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Closeout punch lists
A general contractor or superintendent at substantial completionOne list per unit, a dozen subs, and a spreadsheet that nobody on site opens. Items get closed by phone call and reopened by email.
You walk out with: A list per walkthrough grouped by trade, so each sub gets their own part, with the photograph on the line it belongs to.
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Scope of work and bidding
A contractor pricing a jobYou walk on Tuesday and bid on Friday, from notes that made sense at the time. The items you forgot to write down come out of your margin.
You walk out with: A scope of work grouped by trade, which is the document you price from and the one the client signs.
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Before and after, for the client
A handyman or maintenance contractor on a jobYou did the work, but the client was not there to see the state it was in first. Without the before, the after looks expensive.
You walk out with: What was found and what was done, photographed at each stage, in a report written for the client rather than for the office.
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Move-in, move-out and turnover
A property manager between tenantsDeposit disputes are won by whoever has the dated photograph. Most move-ins are a phone camera roll and a memory.
You walk out with: A condition record per room with photographs, timestamped, that reads the same at move-out as it did at move-in.
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Paid inspections and walkthroughs
An inspector or consultant paid to walk a propertyThe walk takes two hours. The write-up takes another two, in the evening, from a camera roll you can no longer place.
You walk out with: The same report, finished before you leave the driveway, carrying your name as the person who walked it.
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Warranty visits and callbacks
A builder during the warranty periodDefects get reported by text and phone call for a year, and nobody can say at the end what was raised or what was closed.
You walk out with: A dated, photographed record per visit, so the position at the end of the period is written rather than remembered.
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Water damage and mold documentation
A restoration or remediation contractorThe photograph on its own proves nothing. What matters is what you said standing in front of it: where it is, what caused it, what has to happen.
You walk out with: Each affected area photographed and marked, with your own words as the finding, in a document an owner or an adjuster can read.
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Pre-construction condition records
Anyone starting work next to something they did not buildThe neighbor’s crack was there before you started. Without a dated photograph of it, it is yours.
You walk out with: A stamped, located photographic record of the existing condition, dated before the first tool comes out of the truck.
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Evidence that holds up later
Anyone evidencing a claim or a disputeSix months on, the argument is about what the property looked like on a specific day, and both sides have photographs with no context.
You walk out with: A dated report tying each photograph to a stated location and a spoken description, signed off in the name of the person who took it.