Company History
Cahill Inspections Services, Inc. was founded in 1987 by John
Cahill. The company has provided residential real estate inspection services to home
buyers and sellers throughout the north Texas area.
Company Objective
Cahill Inspections Services, Inc. mission is to meet
the needs of its clients while promoting excellence and exemplary practice within the
profession of real estate inspection.
Qualifications
John Cahill
Jim Bennett
John Cahill has been
active in the home inspection industry since 1987. Prior to 1987, John spent 13 years in a
manufacturing engineering / quality assurance environment with a large international oil
company. Mr. Cahill has participated actively in the home inspection industry as an
instructor, inspector and leader. Some of Mr. Cahill's accomplishments are as
follows.
Licensed Professional Real Estate
Inspector since 1987, Texas Real Estate Commission. License number 855.
Licensed Certified Applicator since 1987, Texas
Department of Agriculture Structural Pest Control Services.
License number CA30270.
Has performed more than 6,000 inspections.
Past President / COO of a national home inspection firm that served
500 mortgage branches with 800 inspectors.
Appointed to a six
year term on the Inspector Advisory Committee at the State of Texas Real
Estate Commission (TREC).
2006 and 2005 Chairman TREC Inspector Committee
2005 Chairman TREC Standards of Practice Subcommittee
2004 Chairman TREC Ethics Subcommittee
Charter
member, Continuing Education Advisory Committee, Environmental and Civil
Engineering, School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 2002
Instructor of home inspection / pest control education throughout the
country. Has taught at INACHI,
ASHI,
TAREI
and Inspection Training
Associates events.
Continuing education instructor for Texas Structural
Pest Control approved courses offered via
Texas A&M Extension Center.
Provided TREC approved home inspection education to real estate agents
at MetroTex Board of Realtors (Dallas board)
Founder
of Cahill Inspection Services Home
Inspection School. The school and Mr. Cahill were approved by the State of Texas to
teach home inspection to Realtors and Inspectors.
Past President Elect of the Texas Association of Real Estate Inspectors
(TAREI). John was in the first group
of 20 to hold the prestigious Certified Professional Inspector (CPI)
designation in Texas.
John Cahill authored the 1st written Standards of Practice in Texas.
These were subsequently used as a template in the development of TAREI
standards and subsequently TREC standards..
Member of the
nationally recognized inspector association. The National Association of Certified Home Inspectors (INACHI)
Member of the American Society of Home
Inspectors (ASHI)
Member of the Texas Association of Real Estate
Inspectors (TAREI)
Served on the ASHI Ethics committee.
CABO 1&2
Family Code Certification
Former International
Residential Code IRC 1 & 2 Family Certified Inspector.
Pioneered electronic forms processing in the late 1980's.
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Jim Bennett has been
performing inspections since 1999 and in that time has inspected more
than 2,000 homes. Jim is a licensed Professional Home Inspector with
the Texas Real Estate Commission and a Certified Applicator with the
TDA-SPCS. Jim's prior history was in
manufacturing engineering and quality assurance with a large oil tool
manufacturing company. In his service to this country, Jims enlistment with the Air Force
included world famous Navy Seabee construction training
at Port Hueneme. Jim is known
for his attention to detail and his friendly east Texas accent.
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