With a zillion houses out there, find your perfect home in the midst of imperfection. In The Confident House Hunter, home inspector Dylan Chalk weaves over a decade of home inspection experience into stories and tips with easy-to-understand language, teaching homebuyers and real estate professionals how to look at and understand houses like a pro. Winner of the 2017 Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Silver Award "If you're looking to buy a house, "The Confident House Hunter: A Home Inspector's Tips for Finding Your Perfect Home" (Plain Sight Publishing, $16.99) is packed with plain-English advice for spotting problems before you sign on the dotted line. American Society of Home Inspectors-certified inspector Dylan Chalk shows readers how to get the most out of inspections, outlines his guiding principles for making informed real estate decisions and shares strategies for sorting homes by age, ownership history, type and architectural style. He dedicates several chapters to walking through the "nuts and bolts" of a multitude of home systems and highlights the calling cards of destructive household pests in another. Chalk sprinkles personal stories from the field throughout the book, which includes a handy, book-ending cheat sheet with his top 20 nuggets of wisdom. --Danny Schrafel for Newsday With a zillion houses out there, home inspector Dylan Chalk will help you find your perfect home in the midst of imperfection. Chalk weaves over a decade of home inspection experience into stories and tips with helpful pictures, teaching homebuyers and real estate professionals how to look at and understand houses like a pro. Learn to see through the fresh paint, staging, and beauty bark - Understand what constitutes the bones of a house - Develop strategies for sorting and comparing houses - Prepare yourself for the home-buying process - Find the house that's right for YOU Dylan Chalk is the owner of Orca Inspection Services LLC and has performed over 5,000 home inspections in western Washington. His home inspection service is rated as one of the best in western Washington by his clients on the Redfin Open Book website. Dylan is also the co-owner and CEO of ScribeWare LLC, a software company specializing in report writing software solutions for home inspections. He is a graduate of the Colorado College and earned a certificate in Narrative Non-Fiction from the University of Washington extensions program. Dylan completed his home inspection training with Inspection Training Associates in 2003. He is also a guest blogger on the Redfin Tips and Advice blog.