How the Newcomer name began.
It started in Wisconsin, in 1989. Roy Newcomer — with his son Scott and his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Newcomer — founded Newcomer’s Home Inspection Service. What began as a family business grew, within a few years, into one of the largest home inspection firms in North America: fourteen inspectors on staff and more than 25,000 inspections to its name.
That success surfaced a bigger question worth solving — where do well-trained inspectors come from? In 1993, Roy and Scott answered it by founding the American Home Inspectors Training Institute in Waukesha, Wisconsin, built to train inspectors the right way, to a real standard.
In 1995, Scott launched Newcomer’s of America, a national home inspection franchise. He later restructured those franchises into independent firms and partnered with Roy to take the training institute nationwide — growing it into the largest home inspection training company in North America.
Three generations of Newcomers have carried the name forward. The mission has never changed: do the work right, teach it clearly, and raise the standard for everyone who comes next.
