Massachusetts Home Inspections

Massachusetts Home Inspections is a one-person operation run out of Methuen by David Valley, a Certified Master Inspector who personally handles every job — no other inspectors, no hand-off to an associate. He's an FAA-registered drone operator too, and flying a roof before knocking on the door has become part of the pitch. The Better Business Bureau lists the business as accredited since 2007 with an A+ rating and 22 years in business, and on Google it holds 5 stars across 355 ratings. The word that shows up again and again in reviews is "thorough" — it's rare to find one that doesn't use it. The last six months brought 18 new reviews and not a single negative one, and recent clients describe specifics beyond a walkthrough: one buyer this year had Valley re-inspect a house after closing specifically to compare against a different company's original inspection, and said his pass — done with a drone and a laser thermometer — caught things the first inspector missed. Another recent buyer of a roughly 9,000-square-foot historic home got a report built around more than 500 referenced photos, and a different client this spring received a 17-page report with images keyed to each finding. The work isn't limited to home purchases, either — a June review describes him inspecting the roof, first floor, and basement of a restaurant. Nothing in the record pulls against him: no stated complaints, no disagreement between Google and the BBB, just the same handful of specifics repeated by different buyers about the report quality and the drone/infrared add-ons. Because it's a one-person shop, every booking, walkthrough, and follow-up question goes through Valley directly, which is also what reviewers keep citing as the reason it worked for them. For anyone buying a house — or, per one recent review, even a commercial building — in the Methuen/Merrimack Valley area, this is a well-documented single-inspector operation with a long paper trail and the drone and thermal-imaging work to back it up, particularly useful on an older or larger property where the extra photo documentation seems to matter most.