Pre-NSPIRE and pre-REAC specialists
Know your inspection score before HUD does
We survey your property the way HUD surveys it, correct what would actually be scored, and stay with you through inspection day. Crews on site within 24 hours, in all 50 states.
Tell us about your property
Send the details and our NSPIRE and REAC team will map out your next step.
Try it
You have budget for three. Which three?
Eight findings on one property. Pick the three you would close first, then reveal what they actually cost. Most people pick by what a visitor would notice, which is not how any of this is scored.
Choose three findings
0 of 3 selectedPick three first. Go on instinct rather than deliberating. The point of this is what your instinct does, and the answer is more useful if you have not thought about it too hard.
Illustrative weighting, chosen to demonstrate the mechanic. HUD's published point values are set out in the final standards notice, and the real calculation depends on sample size and property configuration.
Where to start
Four things properties call us about
Most engagements begin with one of these and pull in the others. If you are not sure which applies, each hub has a selector that narrows it in a click.
Inspection Services
A pre-inspection survey scored the way the official visit will score it, so you learn what would fail while there is still time to act. Findings come back ranked by deduction rather than by trade, which is the only order worth repairing in.
All inspection services
Repair Services
Deficiency corrections specified against the published standard for each item and its inspectable location, sequenced by severity, and documented with dated before and after evidence. A repair can be sound by trade convention and still record a deduction.
All repair services
Consulting Services
Score recovery after a failing result, corrective action plans, challenges on the narrow grounds that actually succeed, and capital needs assessments where the problem is age rather than upkeep. Advisory work rather than labour.
All consulting services
Compliance Services
Your records get scrutinised as closely as your buildings, and separately. EIV, HCV, TRACS and PBV reviewed, gaps closed, procedures written down, so paperwork never costs you a payment. You can pass an inspection and still be non-compliant.
All compliance servicesWhat is coming
Two dates, and most properties are on one of them
NSPIRE did not arrive everywhere at once. Different programmes are on different clocks, which is why guidance written for one is actively misleading for another.
Counted live from today. Both dates have moved before, so treat them as the current position rather than a fixed one, and confirm anything programme-specific with your housing authority or contract administrator.
Why use us
What actually makes the difference
Not expertise in the abstract. Four specific things, and the fourth is the one clients mention first.
We know what is scored
HUD publishes a separate standard for every inspectable item, weighted by severity and location. We work from those rather than from general practice, which is the difference between fixing what looks bad and fixing what costs points.
We can be there in 24 hours
Thirty crews exist so a short-notice date does not become a waiting list. If your inspection is next week, that is the conversation to have today rather than after the result.
One team, start to finish
Survey, repair, escort on the day and appeal if needed, from the same people. No handoff between whoever found the deficiency and whoever closes it, which is where corrections usually go wrong.
We will tell you the bad news
If your date is too close, or your recurring findings are end-of-life components rather than upkeep, we say so. Nobody can sell you a guaranteed score, and be wary of anyone who offers one.
Track record
Thirty crews, and no waiting list
We started because property managers were handling inspections alone. Today the capacity exists to mobilise on the day you call, which is the part that actually changes an outcome.
How we work
Real results come from sequencing, not effort
We have walked a great many properties and sat through a great many inspections. The pattern is consistent: properties do not fail because nobody tried. They fail because the wrong things were fixed first.
Volume of findings matters far less than it used to. Severity and inspectable location drive deductions, and the dwelling unit carries the heaviest weight of the three areas. A property can correct forty cosmetic items, score worse than expected, and never understand why.
- Findings ranked by what they cost, not by how they look
- Unit-area exposure calculated separately, because it fails borderline properties
- Corrections specified to the standard for that item and location
- Dated photographic evidence for every closed deficiency
- Escort on inspection day, and an appeal only where evidence supports one
Nationwide
Available in all 50 states
We can schedule an NSPIRE or REAC inspection within 24 hours, anywhere in the country, with specialists who know how the standards are applied regionally and crews that mobilise fast.
Wherever your property sits, we can be on site or reviewing your files this week. The states below have local guidance pages; coverage is not limited to them.
City guidance: Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL
Inspection date set? The survey should come first.
Questions
Frequently asked
What is the difference between REAC and NSPIRE?
They are not two competing systems, which is how it is often described. REAC is HUD's Real Estate Assessment Center, the office that conducts physical inspections. NSPIRE is the protocol those inspections now apply, and it replaced UPCS in October 2023.
So if your property is being inspected today, it is being inspected under NSPIRE whatever the correspondence calls it. REAC inspection covers the scoring framework, and NSPIRE inspection covers the current protocol in detail.
How can you help my property pass an inspection?
By finding the deficiencies before somebody official records them, correcting the ones that actually carry weight, and being present on the day to resolve judgement calls while the inspector is still on site.
What we will not do is promise a score. The score is another party's judgement, and anyone guaranteeing one is either misunderstanding the process or misrepresenting it.
Do you work nationwide?
Yes, all 50 states, with crews that can usually be on site within 24 hours and specialists who know how the standards get applied regionally.
Multi-state portfolios are handled as a single engagement rather than several, which matters more than it sounds when findings need comparing across properties.
What types of property do you work with?
Public housing authorities, HUD-assisted multifamily, LIHTC and tax credit developments, senior and supportive housing, scattered-site portfolios, and voucher units for individual landlords.
Mixed portfolios are common and worth flagging early, because different programmes are currently on different compliance timetables.
When should I schedule a pre-inspection?
Sixty to a hundred and twenty days ahead if you can, because the constraint is repair time rather than survey time. Roof, structural and mechanical work cannot be compressed.
We can survey inside 24 hours if your date is nearer, and we will be straight about what fits in the time available rather than giving you an optimistic schedule.
Can you help after a low score?
Yes, and it is a large part of the work. We start from your report, separate the findings that are accurate from those recorded against the wrong standard or location, prioritise corrections by deduction, and file an appeal where the evidence supports one.
A score below 60 also triggers a full site survey submitted to HUD, not just the cited items, which changes the shape of the job considerably. REAC consulting covers that work.
Do you handle the paperwork side as well?
Yes. Programme compliance is tested separately from physical condition, so a property in excellent order with incomplete certifications is still exposed, and the exposure there is financial rather than a score.
Compliance services covers EIV, HCV, TRACS and PBV, and HUD audit covers records and condition together where a review is already scheduled.