I noticed an ad on the ActiveRain real estate network for "Free Home Inspection" a couple of days ago. Can home inspectors afford to do home inspections for free?

How?

BOGO? (it's a shoe thing... but shouldn't it be BOGOF?) Buy One Get One Free.

ActiveRain Sponsors

Free Home Inspection

Logo

614-XXX-XXXX
Central Ohio Inspections

Find out Here <- a broken link

I clicked on the link and went to a page that says

I found the company, the home inspector is a new member on ActiveRain, Steve Radabaugh of Preferred Property Inspection.

I sent Steve an email saying the link in the ad is not working. I wondered if his website was overwhelmed with traffic or just a bad link. Intrigued I had to look further… here's the Free Home Inspection Offer on Steve's website - Free Home Inspection The rest of the story! I don't know Steve., so I am not recommending Steve… (just because I don't know him) just bringing this offer to your attention. It seems to be a monthly offer.

It turned out the ActiveRain just had a bad link!

The ad is eye catching. "Free"

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

ActiveRain just had it's first birthday and here is a press release about the ActiveRain Real Estate Network's phenomenal growth....

Join ActiveRain  There's still room for real estate agents, stagers, appraisers, inspectors, lenders, title people etc. 

Happy Birthday and congratulations.  The gauge in the press release which I find very interesting is that ActiveRain grew faster in it's first year than Wikipedia did in their first year.  

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe