This former fireman has built a very successful home inspection company by marketing direct to the public. He has 15 inspectors in the Chicago market. He gives a lot of practical advice on running a home inspection business. Charles is being interviewed by Preston Sandlin of Home Inspection Carolina.
Frank Lesh is currently the executive director of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI). He is the founder of the Home Sweet Home Inspection Company, which was started in 1989. He has performed thousands of commercial and residential property inspections, and specialized in EIFS inspections. Frank has been a member of ASHI since 1990 and a member of the Great Lakes Chapter (GLC) of ASHI since 1991. He has held numerous volunteer positions in both organizations, including as president of the GLC from 1997-1998, Master Inspector by Review®, and the President of ASHI in 2007.
Frank won the John E. Cox Award for “Outstanding contributions to a Chapter” in 2004, and the 2012 Philip C. Monahon Award, ASHI’s highest award. Other professional affiliations include the Exterior Design Institute (EDI) since 1996. EDI is the premier organization involved in synthetic stucco (DRYVIT®). Frank was on the Board of Governors of EDI in 1999.
I am the lead instructor for the ASHI school of home inspection and for the ASHI Chapter Relations Committee I am an instructor for the Chapter Consulting Team.
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Specialties:Residential home inspections and mold testing. Teaching home inspection students how to give their home buying clients the peace of mind they need when making the biggest purchase of their lives. With over 12 years of home inspecting, we show the home buyer how to not buy a ‘Money Pit’ and we show them more about the house than the person selling the house even knows