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The inspection report you receive
After the inspection, everything ends up in one place: a private portal where you read your report, your photos and your invoice, in French or in English.
The report you receive
A pre-purchase inspection is only worth what it leaves in your hands. After the visit, you receive a link to your private portal. Everything about your file lives there, in one place.
The portal is the one from Habita, the home inspection platform used in the field for your inspections. There is nothing to install: one link, and it opens.
The agreement, signed online
Before the inspection, you fill out a short intake form and sign the service agreement electronically. Nothing to print, nothing to mail back.
The report, readable online
The report opens right in your browser, section by section, on your phone as easily as on your computer. You can come back to it as often as you need while your deal moves forward.
The full PDF
The complete report is also downloadable as a PDF, the version you forward to your broker, your notary or a contractor asking for a quote.
Photos, annotated and located
Every observation is backed by annotated photos, tied to the exact spot in the building where they were taken. You see what is being described, and you know where it is.
The invoice
The invoice sits in the same place as everything else, not buried in an email thread you have to dig up six months later.
The portal switches between French and English, and your report is delivered in whichever language you prefer. In the Outaouais, that question comes up about every other time.
Why Jean-Michel co-founded his own tool
An inspector spends as much time writing as inspecting. For years, Jean-Michel produced his reports with the software available on the market, and none of it did quite what he wanted: rigid reports, photos that were hard to tie back to the right spot, a client who receives a file and is left to sort it out.
Rather than settle, he partnered with a developer and they built the tool he wanted to use. That is where Habita comes from. Every feature was tested on real inspections, in the Outaouais, before it was called done: if it did not hold up during a day in the field, it went back to the drawing board.
An AI writing assistant supports the inspector while the report is being put together. It decides nothing and observes nothing on anyone else’s behalf: the findings remain the inspector’s own, made on site, with his eyes and his experience.
Disclosure, plainly stated
Jean-Michel Barbier is a co-founder of Habita and the inspector who validates it in the field. Patrick Laperrière, the other co-founder, is its developer, and he also built this website. Inspection Habitation Outaouais and Habita are two separate businesses. This page tells you so rather than leaving you to work it out.
A report ready for the rules that are coming
Reports produced with Habita follow the APCHQ format, meaning they reuse its structure and the order of its sections. It is the format brokers, notaries and insurers here already recognize.
They are also aligned with the Quebec BNQ 3009-500 standard, which governs residential building inspection practice. From October 1, 2027, every inspector in Quebec will have to comply with it. That work is done ahead of time, not rushed through in the final year.
For full transparency: “follows the APCHQ format” describes the structure of the report. It is neither an approval nor a certification issued by the APCHQ.
Are you a home inspector?
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