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.

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.