Plan inspection days around time on site, not just miles.
A three-inspection day is mostly hours inside houses. Put your jobs on a map, set how long each one takes, and see whether the day fits before you book the last slot.
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The short answer
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Lite Route Planner plans routes for home inspectors and appraisers: import jobs or comparable sales from a spreadsheet, set the time on site for each (three hours for a full inspection, five minutes for a drive-by comp), and optimize the order in one click. The day's total adds drive time and time on site. It's free for up to 50 addresses, and Personal is $19.99 a month for one inspector, billed every six months.
Two very different route days
An inspector's day might be two full inspections and a sewer scope, plus a radon monitor to pick up from a house you set it in two days ago. That's three or four stops but six or seven hours on site. The order matters less than whether the day fits.
An appraiser's day can be the opposite: one interior inspection, then a loop past six or eight comparable sales to photograph from the street. Lots of stops, a few minutes each, spread across the market area, so the order matters a great deal.
Lite handles both with one setting: time at stops. Set a default, change it for any stop, and the day's total (time driving plus time on site) updates as you plan.
An inspector's week
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | |
| 1 | File # | Address | City | Job | Sq ft | Minutes on site | Client |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 24-1187 | 5142 W Larkspur Ln | Boise, ID | Full inspection | 2,340 | 180 | Buyer: K. Wu |
| 3 | 24-1179 | 880 N Five Mile Rd | Boise, ID | Radon pickup | 15 | Buyer: M. Dorsey | |
| 4 | 24-1190 | 2716 E Ustick Rd | Meridian, ID | Inspection and sewer scope | 3,105 | 240 | Buyer: T. Alvarez |
| 5 | 24-1192 | 41 S Midland Blvd | Nampa, ID | Pre-listing inspection | 1,620 | 150 | Seller: R. Banks |
| 6 | 24-1194 | 6230 N Linder Rd | Meridian, ID | Re-inspection | 2,880 | 60 | Buyer: J. Kim |
Sq ft and Minutes on site come in as number fields and Job as text, so you can color the map by job type. Time at stops is set in the planner: a default for every stop, then your own number on the long ones.
Plan an appraiser's comp drive
Comparable sales are spread across a market area and need only a minute or two each. This is where putting stops in order saves the most.
- 1
Paste the comp addresses
Copy the addresses of the comps and active listings you plan to photograph and paste them in, one per line.
- 2
Set five minutes per stop
Change the default time at stops to five minutes, and give the subject property its real inspection time.
- 3
Lasso and optimize
Draw a loop around the comps and press Optimize. Start from your office base, or make it a round trip home.
- 4
Take the list with you
Open the route on your phone to tap each comp into Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze, or export a printable PDF to clip to the file.
- 5
Mark what you photographed
Mark each comp Visited, or Attempted with a note if a moving truck blocked the shot.
How visit history helps an inspection business
Re-inspections and repeat clients
When a buyer asks you back after repairs, the property's history shows the earlier visit, its date and your note.
Radon and water-test pickups
A drop-off and a pickup are two visits to the same address. Both stay in its history with the date and time.
Find the ones to rebook
Color the map by last outcome to find every Attempted stop (no lockbox code, seller still home) that needs a new date.
See where the work is
Color by the Job field to see where pre-listing work clusters compared with buyer inspections.
The parts inspectors use most
Monday Route
1h 56m · 26m driving · 1h 30m at stops · 9.0 mi
- 4m · 1.4 mi1Riverside Library740 Park Boulevard
- 6m · 2.1 mi2Bluebird Café305 Cedar Avenue
- 4m · 1.3 mi3Northside Gym61 Market Street
Drive time for every leg
See the day's total, time driving, time at stops and miles before anyone leaves.
Start and end where you work
Save your shop, warehouse or home as a base. Start there, end there, or make it a round trip.
A history for every stop
Drivers mark stops Visited or Attempted and leave a note. Every visit is saved to the stop's history, so you always know when you were last there.
Monday Route
6 stops · 9.0 mi · 1h 56m
Export and print
Download a printable PDF, Excel or CSV, or open the route in Google Maps.
Route planner or inspection software?
Choose Lite if
- You already schedule, write reports and take payment elsewhere, and just need the day in order.
- You want time on site counted into the day's total.
- You want a map of every property you've visited, with its history.
- You'd rather not add another per-user subscription.
Choose inspection software if
- You need online booking, agreements and payments.
- You write reports with photos and defect summaries.
- You want appointment reminders and client notifications.