Thank you so much for your excellent advice about our home inspection process! We are so grateful…read moreto you!

Avoid. Not thorough and took double the time of the usual inspector. Did not check the chimney…read moreclean outs to see that the removed fireplace was not sealed off from the bare studs of the living room. Did not note the massive cracks in garage foundation. Did not find mold behind freezer.

Guy works for the client to make sure your money is well spent. Extremely thorough and ensures you…read morego to the buyer's understanding what needs to be done before purchasing a home. I found him to be extremely trustworthy, hardworking and communitive to help me understand what needs to be done. I strongly recommend him if you're purchasing a home.

No Mr. Occhino, I am neither a real estate agent nor a person who is angry that your inspection…read moreturned up problems in their home. A disgruntled person who lost money due to one of your reports would be a convenient explanation for my review of you. That is not the case here. I wrote my review as a public service to others. By the way, if this negative review of you should be ignored because the person writing it is not a verifiable client of yours, who is to say the people with names like Regular J. and Mh M were your actual clients writing honest reviews? One reviewer said you gave them names of contractors to contact which seems unethical if you are the one telling them they need to fix something. It is obvious from your response you were not an English teacher. Your "poor me" tirade is littered with misspellings and run-on sentences. Also, it is "due diligence," not "due-diligent" and the phrase is not hyphenated. Since you are so fond of seminars, perhaps you should take a couple on grammar and punctuation so the reports you generate will be readable. There are no nefarious reasons for the review I gave and your attempt to try to tie it to phantom people out there who lost money and have an axe to grind is laughable. If you feel I was wrong in the way I evaluated your lack of skills, you were certainly free to correct the record with your response. You did not even attempt to refute what I said about your paper thin credentials. Instead, you rambled on about people's rights and then you just reiterated what I had said about the importance of hiring a qualified inspector when purchasing a house. Being a licensed inspector does not automatically make you a qualified inspector. There is a very distinct difference. There are many good inspectors out there that know their stuff. You are just not one of them. You obtained a license to be an inspector by listening to online seminars and it is really a shame that both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island set such a low bar for issuing home inspector licenses to people like you. It allows you and others to hold yourselves out to the public as experts, qualified to render opinions about all the important systems of a home. You just do not have the kind of experience you should have under your belt to be giving people such vital advice. You might be a very convincing and affable person but you are essentially a hack. When people hire a home inspector before making a home purchase, they should be getting opinions from real professionals who have a history in the building industry. They should not be getting half baked advice from a former math teacher who may have tinkered around his own house for years applying band aids to his pipes and electrical wires and who now thinks he's an expert. Simply put, you should be required to have years of experience in the building industry before you are issued a building inspector's license. It would be prudent for MA and RI to beef up their requirements for home inspectors so people like Mr. Occhino are not allowed to take a couple of online seminars, pass a test, pay a fee, put up a fancy website touting their skills, and hold themselves out to the public as experts in everything from building integrity to plumbing and electrical wiring when they have never worked in that field. They also get to charge exorbitant fees that are not commensurate with their knowledge. In this case, you certainly do not get what you pay for. Anyone who thinks an online seminar can replace years of hands-on experience in the building industry is a fool. Mr. Occhino's decades spent in the high school math department falls far short of the requirements needed for professions like pipe engineer, master builders, electricians, and plumbers. Even general construction workers most likely have more knowledge than Guy Occhino because they are actually building the houses Occhino is supposedly qualified to inspect. Anyone deciding to buy a house or to not buy a house based on Mr. Occhino's advice should think twice. Or better yet, just hire a home inspector with the right credentials to truly inspect and evaluate your property. You are not going to class to listen to a former high school teacher educating you about a thermostat, you are buying a house. Dispense with Mr. Occhino's 4 or 5 hours of fluff and nonsense and hire an inspector who can determine whether or not the house you are about to buy is a sound investment.

Inspection was done with good attention to details. Most issues were identified in the inspection…read morereport. Worth the money spent on this report. We needed accurate list of current issues to make our decision to buy a property. This was exactly what we needed! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

We had a great experience during our buyer's inspection! Thomas was excellent. He was on time and…read morevery diligent inspecting the entire house. He answered all of our questions well and had the report ready for us the next day. Everyone at the company was very easy to work with.

Mayflower home inspections did a rush inspection on my home prior to closing they missed plumbing…read moreleaks there were obvious, electrical circuits that were shorted that they didn't test and a carpenter and infestation after having paid them extra for a pest inspection.

We had two inspectors (Andrew and Pat) join us for the inspection. They arrived early and were…read morewaiting for us. They were able to split some tasks to finish in less than 2 hours while still being very thorough. They were patient and answered any and all questions we had. The final report was delivered less than 24 hours later.

We had a really wonderful experience with Harold as our home inspector. We hired him to inspect a…read moresingle family home for us, and he was responsive and highly professional -- but with a sense of humor. He arrived at the house before we did, and had filled out all of the necessary paperwork to get the inspection rolling the night before. The inspection itself was incredibly thorough, which was wonderful, because as we went through the house with Harold, it was clear that the house needed more work than we had thought when we made our offer. There were many problems (costly problems that also would have grown into health hazards) he pointed out to us -- but that had been concealed to the untrained eye. Harold emailed us an extremely detailed report later that night with pictures, and clear language and recommendations. We determined that we were not going to buy the house, and we have Harold to thank for helping us to avoid huge issues down the road. Back into the housing market now, which stinks -- but we will absolutely hire Mt. Vernon Inspection Associates when we find the next house!

Apparently doesn't do post purchase/repair/warranty inspections for homeowners…read more "Sorry, we are unable to fulfill your request. We are only licensed and insured to perform full home inspections generally for people purchasing a house."

A place that charges premium prices for their inspections, which are below average at best. After…read moregetting settled into our new home, we started noticing a bunch of things that were missed. We reached out to the company and their response is that "even though these are glaring issues, they don't require noting because they are beyond the scope of what they are required to list." I'm paraphrasing but that was the gist. Examples are trim around the garage doors that were eaten away, bathtub seals missing, and other things. Their guarantee is also a bit odd - you can't request a refund post inspection if you notice things, you have to request a change of inspector AT THE INSPECTION otherwise their guarantee doesn't apply. Effectively if you don't like the inspection while it's happening, then you can trigger their "guarantee". When I requested a refund, they wanted me to sign a release just to get not even half of my money back. Would not recommend this company.

Just closed on a home last January 2018. We had utilized this company on another home too - where…read morethe seller wasn't willing to do what needed to be done. We assumed (but were sadly wrong) that when they employed "licensed" professionals that you would get a good home inspection since these inspectors would know current codes. We just put our home on the market to find that what this company's home inspector did was over look a major code violation as MA law states the fuel line can't be buried underneath the cement which the inspector we utilized had taken pictures of the new boiler from the seller and we have the inspection where he doesn't even note that code violation or any problems of the like. Now I have to pay in upwards of 800-1000 to get this rectified before we sell. We had put a call in for our money back for the home inspection price (that is the same guy we used for another home) so we trusted him & he missed this code violation on the current home - as if we knew back then this was an issue (we trusted their inspector- obviously a big mistake) we could have avoided buying said house. If the owner of this company doesn't want to reimburse for this blatant mistake to other home inspectors then my husband will go to the licensing board and attorney generals office. Just be advised we thought this company was good too, until you find out that you were lied to and a major code violation was overlooked. This is why we pay inspectors. Now we're stuck paying for a big mistake this company missed. UPDATE: *Rory, business owner replies 6 days after - as he noted we wrote him (excuse me I called him) and then my husband was to send pictures of the lines. Well why would you need pictures- if you aren't supposed to check it anyway? Giving your own inspector and company two home inspections and not once were we told until AFTER you do the home inspection in the end of the report that you copied and pasted - that this isn't something you have to do or check. This is after we already pay for inspections. Funny thing is - other home inspectors we've spoken to -said that's complete nonsense on your company's part. Ethically you would know what's right. Don't play it off to cover yourself - that you are willing to work with us -as your admin Sarah stated after looking at the pictures (that supposedly you don't care about anyway -but asked for them knowing you weren't going to do anything bc you don't deal with this sort of "stuff") - that you think there was a protective coating- which there was not. They needed to be sleeved. Your clarification and willing to work with us (laughable and ALSO a LIE) - was shown when your last email from Sarah stated "after staff overview you don't deal with this." With the same nonsense excuse verbatim that you wrote here. You knew what was going on and could have reached out personally - you didn't. Hopefully others know that if there are code violations and the town doesn't pick it up then don't expect to waste your money thinking this place will either. You have had our info for a week - if you desired to rectify it - instead of trying to cover your behind online - you would have offline. Instead (and I can and will post that email) your staff gave the same answer to my husband- that you did, with no response of willing to work with us. Right? Good job lying though. You aren't looking to work with anyone.