Send it to a contractor — your findings, to your own trade

What this screen is for. Sharing findings from your report with a contractor you hired — your plumber, your electrician. They get one link, no account, with the full picture: the inspector's write-up, the photos, where it is, and the repair budget. This is the opposite of the Ask List: the Ask goes to the seller's side and carries none of the inspector's wording; this goes to your own trade and carries all of it, on purpose. How to get there. Open your report in the portal and tap Send it to a contractor (the hard-hat button) in the tools row. What every button does Building the request What do you want them to look at? — tap findings to include them; they're grouped by who usually handles them (the trade). Everything saves as you go — you can come back to it. Who's it going to? — their name (optional), their email (required), what they do (filled in from what you picked — change it if that's not who you mean), and your message in your own words, never pre-written. The consent box — "I agree to share these parts of my inspection report — the inspector's write-up, photos, and budgets for the findings I picked — with this contractor." The send stays off until you tick it, and it's asked per send, never remembered. Send it over — sends one email with the link. If it fails, the page says so plainly, keeps everything you put together, and offers "Try sending it again." The link they got — shown after sending, with Copy the link. We only email the link once, so if you need to nudge them, send that same link yourself in a text or email — nothing goes out with your name on it that you didn't send. Tracking it (on the report page) The Contractor requests panel shows each request as sent → viewed → replied, which findings you asked about, and their reply with their name and date. Under each request sits its HomeRecon Verified line — a short code and the moment it was sent — and a timeline of every step (Sent · Viewed · Received — read to the end · Replied · Sent again · Link turned off), each with its own code and time. Download the evidence file saves all of it as one file anyone can check with HomeRecon's open verifier. From here: Copy the link, or Turn off the link → "Turn off access" — new access stops immediately, and your messages and the sent record stay in your history. What the contractor sees (your link) A one-column page titled "Work request": who sent it, your note, then each finding with its permanent number, the severity in the report's own words, the location, "What the inspector saw" and "What the inspector recommends" verbatim, the repair budget with where the number comes from, and the photos. Under the title sits the same HomeRecon Verified code you see in your panel, so you both hold the same fingerprint of what was sent. At the bottom, a reply box — their name, their message, Send it back — which lands straight on your report page, with its own code beside it. No account, no sign-up, and the page reaches nothing else of yours: no report link, no portal, no payments. Common questions "Does my contractor need an account?" No. The link is everything — they read and reply right there, even weeks later. "What exactly do they see?" Only the findings you picked — but those in full: the inspector's own write-up, photos, location, severity, and budget. That's the point; a trade can't act on a bare label. "How is this different from the Ask List?" Direction and content. Ask List → the seller's side, your words only. Contractor request → your own hired trade, the inspector's full detail. "The email bounced — can you resend it?" We email it once. Copy the link from the panel and send it yourself — text works fine. "How do I know they opened it?" The panel's status moves to "viewed", and "replied" (in green) when they answer, with the reply shown. "Can I cut off their access?" Yes — Turn off the link. It stops new access on the spot; a photo they already had open may stay visible for up to five minutes, then it's gone. "Is the budget what they should charge?" No. It's the inspector's planning figure built from public wage and materials data — the page says so. What your contractor charges is between you and them; HomeRecon takes no cut. Good to know There's no inspector switch on this one — sharing your own report with your own trade is your call, not the firm's. The consent you tick is recorded (with its wording and time), and the database refuses a send without it — the box isn't decoration. A dead or replaced link tells the contractor to ask you for a fresh one — it never dead-ends without an explanation, and nothing behind it is deleted. Findings that carry the HR Verified shield show it to your contractor too; a finding without one simply shows nothing. The request itself is fingerprinted when it goes out — the picked findings exactly as they read, the photos, your note, the consent, and the locked report version they came from — and every step after that is chained to it. If a record ever changed, the line turns amber and says so. It's tamper-evident and independently checkable; it is not a contract. Contractor accounts, file attachments, and scheduling are not part of this yet — it's deliberately just findings out, reply back. Related Reading your report — where the button lives The Ask List — the seller's side, in your words only My Reports