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August 31, 2025 11 mins
Mindy and Boots speak with Christian Flinn from Flinn Home Inspections!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, folks, I'm so glad you're with us on
the Sunday. We've had some really good conversations in that
first hour. Haven't we been flew Yeah? Did fly by?
So now we're going to break it down for anyone
who is in the business right now in the market
of buying or selling a house, because there is one
step that is so extremely important to do, and it's

(00:24):
getting your home that you're about to buy inspected, or
if he just wants to know, if you just want
to know what's lurking in your own home, get this inspection.
You would be shocked at how much can be uncovered.
We are talking to Christian Flynn of the Flynn Inspection Group,
who really, I'm gonna be honest with you. Christian just
inspected the house. We got it into the lake. Oh okay, Christian,

(00:47):
you're with us.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right, Yeah, I'm here. Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, yep, we sure can.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
So, so all star, let me start off a question, Kristin.
I inspect classic cars and my job is the nippick
and pick them apart and makes me like not like
what I do sometimes. So now I have I had
a car I put my current house I bought eight
years ago, and I had an inspection company to come

(01:12):
out and say their name and it was you, and
they missed a lot of stuff. Are they responsible if
they miss something? Or do you have What kind of
guarantees do you have if you come out and inspect
that like you did for Mindy and Randy, if you
inspect their new house. What kind of guarantee to have
in case you miss something?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, we do have some warranties in place for those things.
We have ninety day warranties in place. We have some
some roof guards, some sewer guards and things like that.
But I mean, people are human. We have six inspectors
out in the field and you know we're doing quite
a few inspections a year. I'm sure there are things
that do get over you know, some oversights, some things

(01:50):
that get missed, and for the most part, what we
do is we come out and we fix it. So
if you know, let's say I don't know, a leaky
drain or toilet or something was missed and it caused
an issue, it's usually in our best interest not to
make an insurance claim, but just to go out and
fix it and look it right. For the client.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I will say this, Christian. I was blown away with
how much stuff you guys found in the little lake
house that we just purchased at Indian Lake. And these
are old homes, like I was told that most of
these houses around Indian Lake were fishing cottages, so they
were built like years and years and years ago. And
then they loved datu. And then of course you had

(02:29):
the tornado that took out some different homes in Indian Lake.
But you look from top to bottom, and you presented
Randy and me with this great report. It included from
top to bottom things that you found, not just words boots,
he also includes pictures. And then we had to send
that to the realtor so they could see it. And

(02:50):
this realtor was blown away at how precise you were
with everything. She's like, this is such a great inspection.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, yeah, I mean we put a lot of energy
in effort into those inspection reports. And I think you know,
speaking of Indian Lake, I mean in a lot of
these areas. Sometimes you get outside of Columbus, you get
up towards Mount Gilead or Mount Vernon, and these older
houses never had inspections back when they built these things.
They didn't have any kind of code inspections or county inspections.
And so you get in there and you start you

(03:20):
start kind of looking around at things and it's like, wow,
there's there's a lot more under the you know, you
gotta start peeling the onion. You start seeing underneath it. Wow,
this could really be an issue here. And you find
things that people just don't normally see. When you go
and look at a house, it's mainly cosmetics. You look
at the new granite countertops and the fresh paint, like,
this place looks beautiful. Wow, look at this, and they're like,

(03:41):
oh my, look at this report. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
I looked up in the closet ceiling and there was
a whole family of roaches.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
You know.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
See what's the weirdest, craziest thing that you found that
you didn't Okay, they thought the house.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
What can I say on the radio?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, I mean the people thought the house was a
home run. And you get there and say, yeah, but
you didn't see this or like, and it was something
that you can't believe that nobody saw.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Gosh, I've been doing it seventeen years. I've seen so
many crazy things. I mean, you run into snakes, you
run into raccoons and addicts. But I mean, I've got
one story that just really stands out for me, is
really something that was crazy. I had a guy with
brand new he was he wanted to do a ride
along and see if I'm doing home inspections was the

(04:31):
right career for him, and I should have vetted the
house and you know, just kind of seeing what I
was just going to show this guy that day. But
I mean, it was not a good scene. There's a
lot of stories that come from this house, but the
one that really stands out the most was we got
into the basement and there were two naked people down

(04:52):
there just lynging out. I mean, I need the furnace,
I need a hot water tank, I need to look
at the electric panel. I'm like, you know, I'm calling
a reeler. I'm like, hey, we've got to we've got
an issue here. You know, there's naked people and they
were totally comfortable with us being there too. They're like, oh,
come on, there's two girls. These are not girls. They're

(05:21):
going to be happy with what was going on.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
I had no idea you were going to go in
that direction.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, so many crazy things that they have, like the
fiction or anything, some weird stuff. You see stuff in
people's rooms and cameras. And yeah, we do a lot
of multi family inspections. So when you get into some
of those big apartment complexes, those people don't know you're coming.
I mean they may have got to notice, but they're not.
They're not.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
See, we made sure the homeowner who was selling the house,
they all knew that you were coming in and whatever.
But my point is this, if people don't get a
house inspected before they make this big of a purchase,
you really help find things to help them before making
this big purchase. That's the whole idea behind an inspection, right.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, yeah, I mean there's of course, you know, some
negotiation and some things that can go into it. But
kind of to Boots's point about the cars. I recently
was buying a car out of out of state, and
I paid an inspector to go look at it. It's
just because I couldn't put my eyes on it, and
I don't know anything about cars. I mean I would
have been you know, tell me it's good and look

(06:31):
under the hood and everything looks nice. Kind of like that,
you know, for people looking at houses. If they don't
know anything about it, you've got to have somebody go
in and do that. For a couple hundred bucks. It's
just really a no brainer.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
And I feel for you because there are times people
hire me to go inspect the car and I go
to look at it and the owner doesn't want me
there because he's been hiding stuff. I bet you get
that a lot, and I bust him out and I'm like, dude,
and I'll tell the owner.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
I'll even share information.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I'm like, you know, the bottom of the rear part
of this car is wrought it out and someone.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Cobbed it together.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh no, no, no, Well you're they're not going to
buy the car now, I said, well they shouldn't because
you're misrepresenting the car. I try not to get confrontational,
but with I don't know house people, right, I can't imagine.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
That's a bigger bottom line than a car.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, it's a blessing that the seller is typically not
at the house when we're doing our inspections. I'm not
gonna say it never happens, but yeah, that we're able
to get in there and kind of do some truth
seeking and provide the report to the buyer and then
let them make their decision. A lot of times, if
you were to say those things of the seller, they
may not even know you know that that car has

(07:39):
that problem underneath it. I mean that happens. They probably do.
But yeah, there's sometimes or these sellers you'll find things
they had no idea that you know this is going
on in their home.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Either, well, you're right, Like.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
The one little thing. I don't know if you remember
because you inspect so many different homes, but the one
little thing that you've found was he has an infrared
device that he can see everything and anything behind the walls,
and he thought there was an active leak from the
upstairs bathroom downstairs bathroom, So we had different It makes
it more legit as far as we go to the homeowner.

(08:09):
Are the realtors work together and they say, listen, they
found this. It's going to cost them this. You can
either come down on the price or you can fix it.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
As they come down on a price.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Well we did, we did both. We kind of found
a happy medium. But he did go in there, the
homeowner and fix that active leaf leak. But it really
can save you money and it's a whole bargaining table.
That's what the whole game is.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Is it what says it called a raidon or whatever
that seems to be. In the last twenty years, I've
been hearing that, like all of a sudden, raid On's
is going to kill everyone in your house.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Do you have to do that too?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah? Yeah, man. You know some people that are been
in real estate for long time, old time realtors, they're
not big into that because it wasn't the thing back
in the day. But I mean statistics, if you look
at statistics, they they found these pockets and you know
throughout America that have been getting lung cancer, and they

(08:58):
couldn't figure it out because these are non smokers. These
people weren't smoking, but all these people in these different
groups are getting lung cancer. And they figured it out.
In the ground, there's uranium. It's decomposed over thousands of
years and it emits this gas out of the earth.
Well some of the rock is really strong in one
area and maybe not across the street, but it's coming
out of the earth. And when we build a house,

(09:19):
we'd dig a big hole and we stick you know,
the thing in the in the ground and we seal
it all up, make it energy efficient, and you know,
seal all the cores and tape it all up, and
then it just fills up with this rate on gas
and you don't know. You're breathing it in and it's
got these physical alpha particles in it. They'll stick in
your lungs and they can spore into lung cancer.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
I had a house I sold. I had to deal
with it, and it cost me.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
I think it was like twenty eight hundred dollars to
have some green things stuck outside and holes drilled down.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
I was like, this seems stupid to me.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
I thought it was just a I'm glad you said
it's legit because I don't feel so bad now because
I always thought I god taking a vantage of.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Right, and it becomes there's more competition now in that space,
so the price is gone way down as far as
getting a system installed, if you're one thousand dollars or
fifteen hundred bucks, that's probably the most you'll spend it
on mitigation system. So that's that helps people. It's a
big it's something to be concerned about, but it's not
a huge expense if you do have it. Well.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I know one thing Christian we are so glad that
we hired you to be our home inspector for that
little house. You you really saved us and you found things.
And at first I'm like, oh no, I want this
house so badly, but you just work through it. But
it's so important to get that home inspection. And I
just can't can't thank you enough for a great job
that you did. I know you have property at Indian Lake,

(10:37):
So I have to ask you on another thing because
I'm leaving the studio after the What Matters show at
six driving back to the lake because there's this big
ring of fire which has been going around since nineteen
sixty five. Do you know anything about it?

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, yeah, that's the night. So everybody that has you know,
land or house on the lake is supposed to put
you know, flares and things out there. So at night
it looks pretty cool when you go around the lake
when people all participate and it's just a it's a
fire around the lake.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
So if I were there back at seven, I'll be okay.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh yeah, okay, good.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I can't wait to experience this. It's cool.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's supposed to mark the end of summer. It's Labor
Day weekend, it's like the season shuts down, so they
do this whole big ring of fire thing. I can't wait. Yeah, Christian,
thank you. What's the best way for people to reach
out to you if they want to hire you to
inspect their home?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Probably Texter, call or our office at six one four
sixty six two one thousand.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
See that number one more time, Christian, six.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
One four sixty six two one thousand.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
All right, look it up. Flynn Inspection Group and Flynn
is f L I N N. Also Dixie Lundquist told
me to tell you hi, thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
All right, brother, this is raw Mindian Boots always brought
to by the Undefeated America made tattletale and never even
beat from the Harlem Bank Studios on News Radio six
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