All Islands Inspections
Home Inspectors · Key West, FL
About
RealReviews profileAll Islands Inspections is a Key West-based inspection company publishing residential, condo, commercial, wind-mitigation, four-point, roof-certificate, drone, and thermal-imaging services from Key West through Big Pine Key. Outside ratings remain attributed to their source and are not a RealReviews score.
All Islands Inspections: what to know
RealReviews editorial research · checked 2026-07-27All Islands has the clearest exact-Key-West identity and one of the broadest locally documented scopes in this comparison. Its public material resolves the operating name, inspector, Key West contact, license claim, service territory, and several inspection products. That makes it a strong first call for a buyer or owner who needs a full inspection and may also need insurance forms. It does not make every marketed service automatically included, and the current license, agreement, access method, form version, price, and report deadline still need direct confirmation.
Strongest fit
- A buyer who prefers an inspector publicly based in Key West
- Residential or condo work paired with wind-mitigation or four-point forms
- Properties where roof access, drone observation, or thermal imaging should be discussed before the visit
Verify before booking All Islands Inspections
- Verify HI12393 directly in Florida DBPR and confirm who will perform the inspection
- A drone or thermal image is supporting evidence, not proof that concealed conditions do not exist
- A condo-unit inspection does not automatically cover association common structure, roof, seawall, elevators, or reserves
- Provider-posted testimonials were not converted into RealReviews review themes
Start with the name on the inspection agreement
A quote from All Islands can be matched to a fairly specific local identity. Its site names Chris Occhiuto, publishes 305-240-5641 and HI12393, and describes a territory from Key West through Big Pine Key. The business record gives 21 Bamboo Terrace in Key West as the address. If the proposal names a different inspector, that is the point to stop and resolve who will actually inspect the property.
HI12393 is a claim on the company's own site, so the useful check is the current Florida DBPR record for the person assigned to the job. The same name should carry through the agreement, invoice, insurance evidence, and report. A current license settles identity and regulatory status; it says nothing by itself about appointment timing, report quality, or what is wrong with the house.
A condo buyer and a house buyer need different orders
For a house, All Islands' residential page names the roof, structure, attic, exterior, garage, driveway, foundation, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, interior, appliances, windows, and doors. Condo and commercial inspections appear as separate work. Wind mitigation, four-point reports, and roof certificates are described on the insurance-report page; drone and thermal imaging have their own page as well.
Consider a Key West house with a dock and an insurance deadline. The buyer inspection and insurance forms can be priced together, but nothing in the published menu establishes that the dock, seawall, boatlift, pool, mold sampling, sewer scope, or WDO inspection comes with them. Those items belong in the request by name. So do the roof-access method, required photographs, report deadline, any return visit, and the answer when All Islands does not provide a needed specialty.
A roof image is not a roof conclusion
Florida's statutory definition is a limited visual examination of readily accessible installed systems. On a property with no safe roof access, a drone may document the visible covering; it cannot establish what is happening below it. The agreement needs to resolve the consequence before inspection day: the chosen roof-observation method, inaccessible attic or crawlspace areas, utility status, and whether detached or exterior components are included.
Thermal imaging shows temperature differences. A responsible report connects an anomaly to observations and, where appropriate, a moisture reading or specialist recommendation. Ask for a sample report that shows how limitations, photographs, severity, and follow-up are explained. The useful product is the inspector's documented reasoning, not the presence of a camera.
Send an assignment that can be priced without guessing
Provide the address, property type, age, size, structures, contract deadline, occupancy, utility status, roof and attic access, association restrictions, and each required form. Identify pools, docks, seawalls, boatlifts, generators, solar equipment, guest units, crawlspaces, or visible moisture conditions without attempting a diagnosis.
Require an all-in proposal showing base inspection, size or age adjustments, wind and four-point forms, travel, specialty items, expedited delivery, cancellation, inaccessible-component returns, and reinspection. Ask when the report arrives and how questions are handled after delivery. A complete local quote is more useful than a statewide average.
A home inspection is not an insurance guarantee
A buyer may order an inspection while also trying to satisfy an insurer. Those are related but different decisions. The inspection describes visible conditions under the agreement; a wind-mitigation or four-point form has its own requested fields and may require records, photos, or a separate fee. Ask which document will be delivered, who signs it, and whether the carrier accepts that form before treating one appointment as complete.
If an agent or carrier names a specific deadline, put that date on the proposal. A report that arrives after the contingency or underwriting deadline is not equivalent to an earlier appointment with the same price.
Older Key West construction needs a sharper brief
Historic homes, raised houses, additions, guest quarters, and altered electrical or plumbing systems can create a long list of questions without proving a defect. Give the inspector the age, permits you have, known renovations, detached structures, flood or storm history, and any area that will be occupied or rented. That lets the inspection report distinguish observed condition from a record or specialist question.
A visible alteration can justify a permit, structural, electrical, or plumbing follow-up. It is not a code certificate by itself, and the profile does not turn an inspection into a repair estimate.
Waterfront features should be named before the quote
A Key West property may include a pool, dock, seawall, boatlift, elevated access, exterior stairs, generator, solar equipment, or a detached unit. The inspected pages do not establish that every one is included in a standard home inspection. List each component and ask whether it is inspected, excluded, referred, or priced as an add-on.
That question also protects the comparison. A quote that includes the house only should not be compared with one that includes a return visit, dock observation, or insurance form unless those lines are visible.
Report delivery is part of the service
Before selecting an inspector, ask when the complete report will arrive, whether photographs and a summary are included, how limitations are described, and whether the inspector answers questions after delivery. A readable report can still be late or too general for a decision deadline; an early report can still leave a requested component unaddressed.
Save the report, agreement, photographs, and any follow-up answer together. If a specialist or reinspection is recommended, record who is responsible for arranging it and what new evidence would close the question.
Access and occupied homes change the inspection
Tell All Islands whether the property is occupied, rented, under renovation, or controlled by an association. Explain locked rooms, tenant notice, utility shutoffs, attic or crawlspace limits, roof access, pets, alarm instructions, and the time available onsite. Those details can affect what is observable and whether a return visit is needed.
Do not send codes or sensitive transaction documents through an unverified form. Confirm the arrival contact and access method through the booking channel you have checked.
Compare the same assignment with a second inspector
A fair comparison sends both providers the same address, property type, age, size, structures, deadline, access constraints, forms, and specialty requests. Compare the named inspector, standard of practice, report time, photographs, add-on price, cancellation, return visit, and post-report questions.
If one provider asks more questions before quoting, that may reflect a more complete scope rather than a higher price. The useful choice is the proposal that makes the remaining uncertainty visible.
What the current evidence cannot say
The inspected sources establish All Islands’ local identity, published inspection menu, contact route, license claim, and territory. They do not provide a dependable independent customer corpus from which to summarize punctuality, report quality, billing, or dispute handling. RealReviews therefore keeps this profile factual and does not convert official descriptions into a rating.
A future attributable account should name the property type, requested forms, access limits, report timing, price, follow-up, and outcome. That is the evidence needed to describe a recurring experience rather than a marketing promise.
Use the profile as a shortlisting tool
All Islands may fit a reader who wants a clearly identified Key West inspector and a proposal that can include residential inspection and insurance-report questions. It may not fit a buyer who needs a specialty trade, a guaranteed rush report, or a component that the agreement excludes. Those are not negative findings; they are decision boundaries.
Ask the company to answer the exact boundary in writing and compare that response with another local proposal. A conditional shortlist is more useful than an unconditional “best inspector” claim.
Preserve the evidence after the appointment
Keep the estimate, signed agreement, license check, access notes, photographs, report, invoice, and any correction or reinspection record. If a buyer later asks whether a condition was visible, the file shows what was requested and what the inspector could actually access.
A future RealReviews submission should describe that exact assignment without exposing private access codes or transaction documents. Specific, attributable context can improve the profile while protecting the customer.
Separate inspection findings from specialist advice
A home inspector can document a visible condition and recommend a specialist without diagnosing every trade question. Ask which observations are within the inspection scope and which require a roofer, electrician, plumber, structural engineer, pest professional, or mold assessor.
That distinction keeps a buyer from asking the report to do work it was never designed to do. It also makes the next quote more precise because the specialist receives the photograph, location, and question that prompted the referral.
Condo documents still matter
For a condo, the unit inspection cannot substitute for association records. Roof, structure, elevators, seawall, common plumbing, reserves, recent assessments, insurance and pending projects may sit outside the unit boundary. Ask All Islands to identify the boundary in the agreement and gather the association file separately.
A buyer should not treat a clean unit report as evidence that the building has no common-element risk. The two records answer different questions and should be read together.
A reinspection has a narrow job
If a seller repairs a reported condition, a reinspection should identify the completed item, the accessible evidence, and the limitation. It does not turn a prior visual inspection into a warranty or certify hidden work. Ask what photographs, invoices, permits, and access will be available on the return visit.
Price the return visit and delivery date before accepting a repair credit. A written record of the original finding and the follow-up makes the conclusion easier to understand.
Insurance forms may need records beyond the visit
Wind mitigation and four-point requests can depend on construction details, permits, roof age, electrical panels, plumbing materials, HVAC information, opening protection, and photographs. Ask which facts All Islands will observe, which must be supplied by the owner, and what happens when a record is missing.
A form can report an unknown or limitation; it cannot create a missing permit or guarantee the carrier will accept the submission. Make the insurer or agent the final source for underwriting requirements.
The property age changes the questions
Older homes and renovated historic properties may have mixed-era work, inaccessible cavities, additions, and undocumented repairs. Give the inspector renovation dates, permits, prior reports, insurance requests, and visible concerns before the visit. The report can then connect its limitations to the actual property history.
A home with a newer kitchen may still have older service equipment, roof framing, or drainage. Scope should follow the whole property rather than the most recently renovated room.
Ask how urgent findings are communicated
A report arriving later is not the same as a same-day conversation about an active leak, unsafe electrical condition, or inaccessible structure. Ask whether urgent observations are called out before the written report and how the buyer or agent is contacted when the inspector sees a material concern.
The communication path should appear in the agreement, especially when the property is vacant, occupied by a tenant, or under a short inspection contingency.
Travel and scheduling need a written assumption
All Islands publishes a Keys territory, but a property in Key West, Big Pine, or another island can have different travel and access constraints. Ask whether the quote includes travel, tolls, a second structure, a same-day return, or a missed-access fee. Put the property island and appointment window on every proposal.
A lower base number may omit the very travel or return work that another proposal includes. Comparing the complete assignment is the only fair way to read the difference.
Use a question list, not a diagnosis list
A buyer can tell the inspector that a room smells musty, a roof leaked after a storm, or an outlet feels warm without declaring mold, structural failure, or an electrical code violation. Describe the observation, date, location, and history. Let the inspector state what is visible and what needs a specialist.
That wording gives All Islands useful context while keeping the record fair. It also prevents an unverified diagnosis from being repeated as a RealReviews fact.
The profile is strongest when the brief is complete
All Islands is easiest to compare when a customer supplies the property type, age, size, structures, deadline, forms, access, utilities, known water or storm history, and desired follow-up. The resulting proposal can show what is included, what is excluded, and what requires another professional.
If the provider cannot answer a required boundary, keep the question open and compare another quote. A transparent “not included” is more useful than an implied promise.
What a balanced future account would contain
A useful customer account would identify the property, scope, inspector, appointment timing, report delivery, photographs, communication, price, limitations, follow-up, and whether the report helped the customer decide. A favorable or critical conclusion should be tied to those facts.
Without that context, RealReviews can describe the official offer and open questions but should not manufacture a recurring sentiment theme. The profile remains scoreless until the evidence qualifies.
The decision at the end of the profile
Choose All Islands for a clearly identified Key West inspection conversation when the proposal answers the exact house, condo, insurance, access, and deadline questions. Compare another provider when a specialty, guaranteed rush report, or documented review pattern is essential.
Either choice should end with a written agreement, current license check, named deliverables, price assumptions, and a record of what was actually accessible. That is the practical decision the available evidence can support.
Your file for All Islands Inspections
- Verify the assigned inspector and HI12393 in Florida DBPR.
- Read the agreement, standard of practice, exclusions, and dispute terms before the appointment.
- Name the full inspection, wind form, four-point form, roof documentation, and every add-on separately.
- Confirm roof, attic, crawlspace, utility, condo-common-area, seller, tenant, and association access.
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- Google Places snapshot checked Apr 2026
- Official-site details checked Aug 2026
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