12 years on the ground in Minnesota. 5,113+ inspections logged. Specialist in the failure modes that actually show up in MN housing — Orangeburg deformation, VCT root intrusion, and frost-cycle joint separation.
I came to inspection sideways — through a decade running underground utility crews for a Twin Cities GC. I watched too many homeowners write five-figure checks for lateral problems that any decent scope would have caught at the time of purchase. The asymmetry bothered me. A two-hundred-dollar camera run versus a twelve-thousand-dollar surprise. So I left the trenches, got my InterNACHI credentials, and built the inspection practice I wished had existed when those buyers were doing their due diligence.
I've inspected from Lake of the Woods to the Iowa border, and the consistent thread is this: Minnesota's freeze-thaw cycle is the most aggressive infrastructure stressor in the lower 48. Frost depth here runs 60 to 80 inches in cold winters. That's deeper than half the laterals in pre-1965 housing. Pipe joints separate. Clay tile cracks circumferentially. Orangeburg deforms. Cast iron rusts through at the bottom invert. The failure modes are predictable if you know what to look for — and the year-built / city combination tells you 80% of the story before the camera even goes down the cleanout.
This is the single most important thing about how we work. Every other sewer-scope outfit in this state also sells repairs, which means every "you've got a problem" finding has a financial conflict of interest baked into it. We deliberately don't. We inspect, we document, we hand you the file, we walk away. Your repair contractor relationship is yours — pick whoever you trust. That independence is the entire product.
| InterNACHI Certified Master Inspector (CMI®) | 2018 – present |
| InterNACHI Certified Professional Inspector (CPI) | 2014 – present |
| Minnesota Licensed Home Inspector | Active |
| Years of MN inspection experience | 12 years |
| MN inspections completed | 5,113+ |
The day a homeowner thanks me for finding a problem that saved them a five-figure surprise is the day this job is worth it.
The fastest way to understand what a Halverson-led inspection actually looks like is to read a real one. We've published a fully anonymized sample report from a 1949 Powderhorn property — distance markers, defect codes, repair-class flag, and cost guidance. View the sample report →
For the underlying education on what we find and why it matters, read the Minnesota Sewer Pipe Material Guide, the sewer scope overview, or browse the 50 Minnesota cities we serve.
