A PCA tells a commercial buyer what a building will cost them over the next decade. What it covers, what it excludes, and when a lender requires one.

The inspector is the one professional in a property purchase with no stake in whether the sale closes. Why that matters, how to tailor your inspection, which additional inspections to consider, and how to choose a qualified inspector.

Florida mold assessors complete 14 hours of continuing education every 2 years, and nothing in those hours asks them to show they can do the work. Why the training market counts attendance, and three ways to change that without a new law.

Florida certifies radon testers but has never set a radon action level of its own. Who is actually required to test, why the real estate disclosure is not a test result, and what a defensible radon measurement should record.

Different triggers, different deadlines, different thermal imaging rules, different forms. An owner who applies what they learned in one county to a building in the other is making the most expensive mistake in this area of work. The two programs share a nickname and very little else.

Infrared cameras do not see moisture, they do not see mold, and they cannot see through a wall. They see surface temperature. Where Miami-Dade requires thermography on a recertification, what an infrared survey genuinely detects, and the four limits that decide whether a survey is worth anything at all.

Florida licenses mold assessment separately from home inspection, and holding one does not confer the other. Where the line falls, what a home inspector can and cannot report, and the report wording that keeps an inspector inside their license while still telling the client everything they need.

A mold assessment report is relied upon by a homeowner deciding whether to spend five or six figures. By an insurance adjuster deciding coverage. By an attorney deciding whether there is a case. By a physician who has been handed it by a patient who is unwell. And by a remediation contractor who will price and perform the work from the protocol inside it. It is a health decision, a financial decision and a legal exhibit, all made on a document that nobody checked. This is the