Homeowners
are
landowners
too.
What is a landscape inspection?
Facts, not opinions.
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A landscape inspection performed by The Grade Outdoors includes a comprehensive, unbiased evaluation of your grounds and its components. What clients get is so much more than just a quick "landscaper walk-through". We follow an objective, scientific, and systematic process to identify and evaluate landscape items and provide recommended actions. Our inspection complements the typical home inspection by closely examining both the natural and built-in features of your property. Residential landscape inspections educate potential and existing homeowners and help them make informed and responsible landscape decisions.
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The Grade Outdoors fills in the blanks left by the typical home inspection.
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Most home buyers hire a home inspector as part of the buying process. Simply put, the home inspector's job is to help you understand what you are buying. However, the typical home inspection provides only a cursory look at the landscape features of your property and is more focused on the dwelling structure.
The landscapes of today's homes have become increasingly complex. Potential problems that lie undetected can lead to further complications, or expensive repairs and renovations.
This is where a landscape inspection is critically important.
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Educated decisions, not best guesses.
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The Grade Outdoors provides valuable information on a complex part of real estate. Through our site analysis and recommendations, we aim to inform, educate, and advise homeowners and home buyers on the condition and value of their landscapes. The information we provide helps clients save money on home purchases and landscape investments, preserve and increase landscape value, and help create healthy, safe, functional and rewarding landscapes long-term.
The Landscape Inspection Report
Armed with expert knowledge of a property you can:
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increase your property's market value through better landscape management
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better negotiate the purchase price of a home
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make pre-market landscape repairs and renovations to boost your property value
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identify landscape assets to maintain and deficiencies to correct
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hire the right contractors for the job
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make sure job specifications are right
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improve and enhance the property you love based on educated decisions
What we inspect
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Climate & Exposure
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Grade & Terrain
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Soil Health Assessment
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Drainage
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Retaining Walls
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Plant & Tree Inventory
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Plant Health
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Hazardous Tree ID
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Turfgrass
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Patios & Paved Surfaces
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Landscape Structures
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Fire Features
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Water Features
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Irrigation Systems
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Outdoor Lighting
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Pet Containment Systems
Our broad knowledge of plants, hardscapes, and landscape structures and systems provides expert, objective evaluation of any or all parts of your property's outdoors.
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We can inspect a single component or do a comprehensive evaluation.