Jim's Building Inspections

Jim’s is a household name and you must have seen their ad on TV for some of their business. Jim’s building inspection has one of the highest numbers of branches in Australia through their franchisee business model. Jim’s Building Inspection always in the top 3 building inspection companies searched online.

Services

Jim’s building inspection provides quite a range of building inspection services all over Australia.

Building Inspection
Building and pest inspection
Dilapidation reports
Asbestos Inspection
New Home Inspection
Depreciation Schedule
New Construction Inspection
Specialist Inspection

Cost

Research shows that prices of services provided by the company fall in the middle range. Jim’s Building inspection charges around $500- $600 which slightly higher than the market average of $450-$500. The company justifies the slight pricey aspect of the service with prompt service and company reputation. Also a franchise structure, the number of stakeholders is also higher. Each dollar is divided into Company owner profit, company expenses, Franchisee owner profit, Franchisee expenses, Inspector fee, and other expenses. Whereas an independent building inspector gets to keep every cent with himself.

Service Area

Jim’s building inspection cover highest number of suburbs in Australia when it come provide building inspection and allied services. The company provide services in following states and territories

New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
South Australia
Western Australia
Northern Territory
Tasmania
Canberra

Feedback and Rating

With a 4.8 star rating out of 5, Jim’s building inspection has the highest rating among the multi-state and big building inspection companies. Most of the customers have a great opinion about the company. The company is getting a lot of positive feedback for a prompt response. Customers are saying that the inspectors are prompt to respond and immediately scheduled the inspection. Customers are happy with the 24 hours turnout time for the report.

Customers have mentioned positive words for polite and helpful customer service. Being a national company, all the quality assurance systems and CRM systems are paying off in terms of great customer feedback.

There some negative feedback about the company. Most of the negative feedback is related to an incompetent building inspector or failure to building inspection. Customer ratings are also different from different franchisees of Jim’s building inspection. So it is difficult to figure out the exact rating. One franchisee may be delivering excellent service while other franchisees may be doing deplorable service.

For naive customers, it is very difficult to evaluate the competence of a building inspector in your area. Building Inspection Council is a not-for-profit council for community service. Building inspection Council provides free quotes from the pre-verified expert building inspector inspectors in your area.