Chargebacks do NOT come off the inspection they belong to. They come off your entire deposit.
This is the part most inspectors get wrong.
When a client issues chargebacks, they do not deduct them from individual work orders.
Instead, the client totals all chargebacks together and subtracts that amount from the
grand total of all inspections paying in that deposit cycle.
Because of this, skipping a follow-up or doing something incorrectly does not just affect
“that one inspection.” It reduces your entire paycheck for that deposit.
Here’s what this means in real life:
If you ignore a follow-up…
If your photos are incorrect…
If your inspection is rejected…
If you create an error that results in a chargeback…
That chargeback hits the total deposit — not the individual order.
So instead of losing $7 or $9 for that one job, you may lose $25 to $250 off your NEXT deposit —
even when every other inspection you completed was correct.
To avoid this, the issues listed below must be followed precisely: