Among HGTV’s recent finds has been Joe Mazza, star of “Home Inspector Joe.”
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“I was always hustling, working around the clock just to make ends meet.
“Being a home inspector gives you flexibility and scheduling.
If I want to work, I work.
“She is the funnest, happiest pup in the world.
In one of those Rosie-centricInstagramposts, Mazza playfully scolds the barking dog.
“Who does this pup think she is?”
he wrote in the caption.
“Talking back to me about not wanting to go to school.”
“My sense of smell kicked in,” Mazza said.
“It’s pretty wild.”
Mazza’s smelling abilities have proven to have unexpected benefits in his role as a home inspector.
“Sometimes you don’t want to smell certain things like dirty houses.”
“I can walk into a house and be like, ‘All right.
We have a mold condition here,'” he toldRealtor.com.
Mazza is not unaware of the significance of this surprising gift.
So I put the light down on the ground and I’m looking.
I’m like, ‘What the heck is this?’
The floor was covered in teeth,” Mazza recalled in an interview with Realtor.com.
“It was gross and terrifying,” he said toCulture Map Houston.
Thankfully, he was able to breathe easier when he discovered the truth behind the teeth.
“Usually I’ll just turn around and walk out.
There’s nothing I can do,” Mazza said.
He also recalled a home that housed numerous cats and dogs.
“They didn’t clean anything ever.
I walked in and the hit of ammonia slammed me to heaven.
I got dizzy and started gagging.”
“I have a lot of nicknames, including ‘Joey Buzzkill,'” Mazza toldThe News-Herald.
It’s falling down in front of your eyes.'”
“So as a joke, it stuck, and that’s my name now.”
“Once I have that mindset, I can’t fail.”
“And I didn’t know how to go about it,” he recalled.
“So I started doing Instagram and I started helping people across the country.”
The exposure from that USA Today video brought him to the attention of HGTV.
“They contacted me and said there was an opportunity for me to possibly have my own show.
Fast forward, here I am.
It was all through social media.
It was me being me, just doing home inspections,” he said.
“It’s all about engaging your audience.”
That tribute in ink is a very personal one for him.
“I was there when our Towers were hit!!
I was there for 11 months cleaning that pit!!
I dealt with family’s [sic] daily that lost loved ones!!
You have no idea what it was like experiencing this unless you were there.
It was awful and the things I saw nobody should ever see EVER!!”
he wrote in anInstagrampost.
That particular tattoo, he explained, is a humorous homage to his “Joey Bats” nickname.
“It’s on the inside of my right bicep,” he said.
“It’s a bat holding two eyeballs.”
“And here I am, tons of tattoos and motorcycles,” he quipped.
And when it comes to that beard, Mazza is a big fan of personal grooming.
“ensure it’s serviced before you get in there, and ensure the filters are changed.
I change mine once a month,” Mazza said (viaYouTube).
“Have somebody come in,” he said.
“Look at the electrical panel.
Is it an old-school Federal Pacific panel that [catches] fire?”
“It’s very weird.
I don’t know how to explain it.”
Speaking with Realtor.com, Mazza identified five things that he feels absolutely need to be investigated.
Other aspects include the state of the driveway.
Finally, he advises looking out for galvanized pipes, which can corrode from the inside, andhazardous mold.
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