What the License Covers
Florida requires home inspectors to be licensed. Behind that sit three things: completed training, a passed examination, and insurance. It is a real filter and it removes a category of person you would not want in your house.
What to Verify Before Booking
Ask for the license number and check it against the state record rather than accepting a badge image on a website, which anyone can paste. Ask whether they carry both general liability and errors and omissions insurance, because E and O is the one that matters if something significant gets missed. Ask what standard of practice they work to.
SureHome operates under FL License #HI 11755, and every inspection is performed by a licensed, InterNACHI-certified inspector.
What Certification Adds
InterNACHI certification sits on top of the state requirement and brings continuing education plus a published standard of practice. That second part is the useful one: it states in advance what an inspector will and will not examine, which gives you something concrete to hold a report against instead of an assumption.
Where the license stops: it does not distinguish between two licensed inspectors when one spends four hours in a house and the other spends ninety minutes. Both are licensed. Both carry insurance. Only one of them took the panel cover off. Licensing is where you start narrowing the field, not where you finish. The choosing an inspector page covers the rest.
What a Residential License Does Not Cover
Two limits worth knowing before you hire anyone on Merritt Island, because both come up here more than elsewhere.
Seawalls, Docks and Boat Lifts
A home inspector license covers residential structures and their systems. It does not qualify anyone to certify a seawall, a dock or a lift. We report what is visible and photograph it, and when something looks wrong the report says a marine contractor or a Florida-licensed professional engineer should assess it properly.
An inspector who tells you a seawall is sound is telling you something their credential does not support. That is worth knowing on an island where a large share of the housing has one.
Commercial and Industrial Property
A residential license covers houses, condominiums, townhouses and small residential rental property. Offices, retail units and warehouses need a commercial inspector working to a different framework. We do not take that work, and the commercial property page explains where the line falls and what to ask instead.
Where Inspections Fit the Transaction
A licensed inspector produces the report you use to decide. If you are buying, it lives inside your inspection period and the pre-purchase page covers the timing. If you are selling, it lets you find things while you still control the response. If you are insuring, the 4-point and wind mitigation reports are what your carrier asks for, and both are produced under the same license.
Get a figure from the rates page or the cost page, see the scope on the checklist, or return to the Merritt Island overview.