Office, retail & mixed-use
Strip centers, storefronts, professional buildings and mixed-use blocks — where one roof and one mechanical system sit between you and several tenants’ rent.
Commercial Property Inspections · Minnesota · Iowa · North & South Dakota
Know the Building Before You Sign
A commercial building is a cash-flow instrument, and every deferred repair in it is a number somebody left off the spreadsheet. We are a CCPIA Certified Commercial Property Inspector, inspecting to the ComSOP — the commercial standard InterNACHI itself adopted — across Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. You get a condition report you can price, finance and negotiate against, not a walkthrough opinion.
CCPIA Certified Commercial Property Inspector
Certified through the Certified Commercial Property Inspectors Association. We inspect to the ComSOP — the International Standards of Practice for Inspecting Commercial Properties — which CCPIA writes and maintains, and which InterNACHI adopted in place of its own commercial standard.
What we inspect
Buildings That Have
Buildings That Have
to Earn Their Keep
Commercial inspection is our first line of work, not a residential service stretched to fit a bigger building.
Industrial & warehouse
Shops, shells, storage and light manufacturing. Slab, frame, envelope, dock equipment and the service capacity to actually run what you intend to put inside.
Multifamily & apartments
Duplex through apartment block. Unit sampling, common areas, and the shared systems that turn one failure into every tenant’s problem at the same time.
Scope
What Gets Inspected
A baseline commercial inspection to the ComSOP. Scope is agreed in writing before we start, because on a commercial property the client — not the inspector — decides how deep the inspection goes.
- Site: paving, parking, walkways, grading and site drainage
- Structural frame and visible foundation
- Building envelope: cladding, glazing, sealants and openings
- Roofing, flashing, drains and rooftop equipment
- Electrical service, distribution, panels and site lighting
- Plumbing supply, waste, fixtures and water heating
- HVAC equipment, distribution and controls
- Life safety and fire protection components, as observed
- Interior elements, finishes and tenant spaces
- Vertical transport and specialty equipment, as observed
- Ancillary services — added to the same visit, discounted
A condition inspection, stated plainly.
This is an assessment of condition — not a code-compliance audit, an ADA survey or an environmental site assessment. If a finding needs one of those, we say so in the report and tell you who to call.
Ancillary services
Add Them to the Same Visit
Add any of these to your commercial inspection and we’ll take care of it on the same visit, for less than booking it on its own.
NASSCO Sewer Inspections
We run a camera through the sewer line and grade what we find to the NASSCO PACP standard.
Foundation Inspections
Cracks, settling, moisture, and whether it’s still carrying the load the way it should.
Ask when booking
Phase I Chimney Inspections
Fireplace and chimney, inspected to the InterNACHI Phase I Standards of Practice.
Ask when booking
Who books one
Three Reasons
Buying or financing
Due diligence runs on a clock, and a lender wants condition in writing. Find out what the roof and the mechanicals are going to cost you while the price is still a conversation.
Owning and budgeting
Capital planning is guesswork without a condition baseline. Know what fails next and roughly when, so the replacement is a line item instead of an emergency.
Leasing, either side of it
Document condition before a tenant takes possession and again when they hand it back. A dated, photographed report settles the argument that otherwise costs both parties a lawyer.
Service area
Four States
We inspect commercial property throughout Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. Outside those four, ask anyway — on a commercial job, travel is usually workable.
Minnesota & Iowa
Minneapolis, Saint Paul and the metro; Rochester, Mankato, Albert Lea, Austin, Owatonna and southern Minnesota; Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Waterloo and Sioux City across Iowa.
North & South Dakota
Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismarck and Minot; Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Aberdeen and Brookings — plus the smaller markets in between, which are usually the ones nobody will travel to.
Residential property instead? See residential inspections. Contractor or municipality with CCTV footage? NASSCO video review & coding.