First Choice Property Inspection, LLC.

Used Ed for my home inspection in November of 2018 and now multiple problems with the house that he said was all good. Awful inspection!!!

He did an inspection of the home I was selling very recently and stated on the report that the sump pump’s discharged into the sewer. Anyone with eyes could see that both sump pumps discharged into their own line, it was a glaringly obvious error and one of the things that scared off my buyer. Definitely not detail oriented enough to be in this sort of business, I would never hire him to inspect a property I was interested in purchasing.

I am a real estate broker and I have probably had 25-30 clients use Ed Martino and Ist Choice for their home inspections over the past 10 years. I have never once heard of any of them having a problem. Nor have I heard any of the many other Realtors in town express anything but high regard for him. Ed always adjusts his advice to speak to the client on their level: To an engineer, he is meticulously detailed, to more emotive types, he walks them around the house when he's finished to actually shows them the issues and concerns. On a Google Review scale of 1-5, in my professional opinion, 1st Choice Home Inspections is a 6!

Edward Martino performed a seemingly thorough inspection of my property but in the process flooded the basement of my home. When I requested his insurance information he indicated that he did not have insurance to cover this sort of damage. He said he would remove my damaged carpets in my basement and reimburse me to replace the carpets if I provided him quotes. It took him 3 days to remove the wet smelly carpet from my basement and he left the wet padding from one of my carpets in my basement. I provided him with quotes for replacement carpet as he requested on 8/9/13, and since that time he has been unresponsive to my phone calls and emails. I believe the only reason he returned to my property after the initial incident was because his radon testing equipment was in my home.nnIn addition to the unfortunate flood during his inspection, the report that he provided to the Buyers indicated a number of issues which were simply false. I was able to immediately prove some issues incorrect, and have since had contractors out to my home to provide information and documentation in reference to other areas of his report which were exaggerated and incorrect as well. He also continued to perform a radon test in my home after the flood he caused, even though the damp and humid conditions of the basement due to the water and ongoing use of a fan violated the EPA Indoor Radon and Radon Decay Product Measurement Device Protocols.nnInitially, this was a seemingly thorough inspection with Edward spending a great amount of time in my home and appearing to inspect everything you would expect for this type of service. Unfortunately, he was not careful and caused damage to my home, did not follow protocol for Radon testing and did not provide an accurate inspection report to the Buyers. If he responded to my calls or emails and attempted to remedy the situation in regard to the damage and home inspection report discrepancies I may not be as quick to suggest not using his services. Unfortunately he has not shown professionalism in this situation and his unresponsiveness, including hanging up on me when I identified who I was when calling his business, is unacceptable.nnBuyer beware, if you were to be held responsible for his actions in someone's home.