What the evaluation covers, what gets flagged, and why we keep over 10 thousand of them as part of the property record.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul both require a point-of-sale housing evaluation before most homes change hands. The city pages explain the ordinance well. What no one publishes is the part buyers and sellers actually want: what these evaluations typically find.
A TISH evaluation is a disclosure required by the city, carried out by a city-licensed evaluator. It exists so a buyer knows what they are getting; it is not the buyer's own inspection and does not replace one.
It is ordered before the home is listed, and the report is disclosed to buyers. Because it happens at listing time, a TISH is often the most recent independent description of a property that exists.
An evaluator can mark a condition as hazardous, which makes correcting it mandatory rather than advisory. Those are the items that change a transaction.
Reports expire, and a home that sits on the market can need a fresh one. A dated evaluation is still useful evidence about the property's condition at that date.
An evaluation is a dated, itemised, independent description of a house — the furnace, the roof, the electrical service, the plumbing, the windows. Read one and you learn about a sale. Read over 10 thousand of them and you learn what actually goes wrong in these houses, by era, by neighborhood, by system. That is what turns a pile of disclosures into a record worth consulting.
Most required repairs are predictable from the property's age and its permit history. Finding out at listing is expensive; finding out earlier is not.
Required corrections in regulated trades need the right credential. We route work by what the job legally requires, not by who is available.
Work you did gets recorded against the property, so the next evaluation and the next buyer both see it.
City ordinances change. Confirm current requirements with Minneapolis or Saint Paul — they are the authority on their own rules, and we link out rather than paraphrase them.