About
Every job Kyle's had came down to teaching people what he knows.
A construction career built from the ground up in Pennsylvania. Air Force logistics across three tours. Nine years on a prison hostage rescue team — most of it spent training others. Home inspection isn't a career change; it's the same job with a flashlight.
On the roof, not on the ladder rung guessing — chimney flashing is where leaks are born.
NRPP Certified RMP #116187 · through Aug 2028
Credentials
- —KY Home Inspector License #305346
- —PA Home Improvement Contractor #172974 (active)
- —FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot — plus a private pilot certificate
- —U.S. Air Force veteran — three tours
- —Licensed & Insured
- —Instructor background: firearms, first aid & CPR, self-defense, verbal de-escalation
From side jobs to general contractor
During the prison years, Kyle started doing construction on the side — and it grew into a full-time Pennsylvania contracting business (PA HIC #172974, still active). The range runs from concrete countertops, full bathroom remodels, Trex decks, and siding and stone veneer to excavation, land clearing, and home additions taken from foundation to roof as general contractor. The proof-of-work highlight: an off-grid cabin he built entirely by himself, ground to roof, that now operates as a 5-star Airbnb and small event venue — one of two 5-star rental properties he and his wife still run today.
Fourteen years in corrections, nine on the hostage rescue team
After the Air Force, Kyle spent fourteen years working in a prison — nine of them on the institution's hostage rescue team, where he also served as team armorer (and assistant armorer for the institution). But most of his time went to teaching: he was the institution's instructor for firearms, first aid & CPR, self-defense, and verbal de-escalation, and served as union president and employees association vice president along the way. Staying calm under pressure and explaining complicated things clearly became second nature.
U.S. Air Force, three tours
Kyle served in Air Force logistics — moving people, cargo, and every vehicle in between across three deployments. Logistics is where you learn that details aren't optional: one missed item on a checklist and things stop moving. That discipline never left.
Why inspections
When Kyle moved to South Central Kentucky, he chose inspections deliberately: after years as an instructor, educating people about the biggest purchase of their lives was the natural next classroom. It's why every Peirson report gets talked through instead of just emailed, why walkthrough follow-ups are offered, and why Peirson HomeCare exists — teaching homeowners their own houses, one visit at a time.
Outside the crawlspace
He also built the county a directory.
Finding a decent contractor around here is harder than it ought to be. The national directories charge businesses to be listed, sometimes charge homeowners to look, and order the results by whoever paid the most. So Kyle built SoKY Local — a directory for Bowling Green and the surrounding counties that is free to list on and free to search, with no fee to appear and no fee to be contacted.
Peirson Home Inspections holds a disclosed owner spot on it, and that is the only return he takes. Listings are not ordered to favour it and reviews are not filtered. There is a second one, Lake Erie Local, covering the Pennsylvania tri-state area he came from.
Why it's done this way
The standard I answer to.
Faith has become a bigger part of my life than it used to be, and it shapes how this business runs more than anything on a certificate does. It is the reason no repair work gets done on a house for twelve months after I inspect it. It is why the report belongs to you and not to the deal, whoever sent you my way. It is why you will hear it plainly when a test will not tell you anything worth the money, and why radon sat paused on this site rather than being quietly sold while I sorted out where the state stood.
None of that costs a client anything, and some of it costs me. That is rather the point. The work gets done the way it ought to be done whether anyone is checking or not, because the integrity of the job is not really mine to negotiate with. Treating people the way I would want my own family treated in the same transaction is not a marketing line — it is the standard I answer to.
Put that experience in your crawlspace.
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