A stranger on the internet is scoring the biggest purchase of your life. You should want to know what is underneath that. Here is the whole answer: who pays us, where the knowledge comes from, where the dollar figures come from, how every home gets read the same way, and, just as importantly, what Casaroo cannot see. Casaroo is educational and impartial, and it is not a home inspection.
Casaroo takes no money from sellers, listing agents, brokerages, or lenders. There is no way to pay for a better score, and no advertiser whose feelings we have to consider. Analyzing a listing is free, in full, with no paywall on your two scores or your flags. The paid product, coming soon, is the in-person Walkthrough Review, and the person who pays for it is you, the buyer. That is the whole business model, and it is deliberately the simplest possible one: if we ever worked for the sale, the read would be worthless to you.
Casaroo does not improvise opinions about houses. Behind the product sits the Home Buyer's Library: more than a hundred plain-English guides covering the issues that actually cost Canadian buyers money, from knob and tube wiring and polybutylene plumbing to negative grading, vermiculite insulation, oil tanks, and the difference between a kitchen that is dated and one that is failing.
Each guide answers the same five questions: what it is, why it matters, how to spot it, what it typically costs in Canada, and what to do about it. Each one names its own sources at the bottom of the page. Nothing is hidden behind the product. If Casaroo flags something on your home, you can click through, read the research yourself, and disagree with it.
That library is not marketing material bolted on afterward. It is the thing the product reads from, and it is public precisely so it can be checked.
Every cost range in Casaroo, on the site and in the app, comes from a single canonical cost table covering 91 items, so the number you see in a guide is the same number the product uses. It is built from Canadian trade pricing, federal and provincial guidance, and industry sources, including CMHC, Health Canada, Natural Resources Canada, the Electrical Safety Authority, TSSA and WETT guidance for fuel-burning appliances, building code requirements, and Canadian contractor pricing data.
Two honest caveats, stated plainly. These are 2026 estimates and ranges, not quotes: real prices vary by region, by the size of the home, and by how hard the thing is to get at. And they are a planning tool, not a bill. Confirm specifics with a qualified professional before you act on any of them.
This is the most important sentence on this page. Casaroo will never tell you a home is fine. It is not built to, and it is not allowed to. Photographs and listing text cannot support that claim, and no software should pretend otherwise.
What Casaroo does is the opposite and much more useful: it surfaces what is worth checking, puts a realistic cost range beside it, and hands you the specific question to ask about it. A quiet report means nothing notable was visible in what you gave it, which is not the same thing as a clean home. That distinction is drawn on purpose, and it is why a licensed home inspection remains the step that decides. Casaroo helps you work out which homes deserve one.
A human eye gets tired at four o'clock on a Sunday. Casaroo does not. Every listing is read against the same structured checklist, system by system, and the two scores are kept apart on purpose: the bones (roof, heating, electrical, plumbing, structure) and the appearance (kitchen, baths, finishes). A renovated kitchen cannot quietly cover for a roof at the end of its life, because the kitchen is not allowed to touch that score.
Behind the scenes, changes to the scoring are run against a fixed set of test listings before they go live, so an improvement in one area is not silently making another area worse. It is unglamorous work and you will never see it. It is a large part of why the read stays consistent from home to home.
Any tool that will not tell you its limits is selling you something. Casaroo works from listing photos and listing text, so:
Casaroo is the impartial second read you get for free at eleven at night when you are on your phone, before you spend a Saturday touring, and before you spend several hundred dollars on the inspection that really does open the panel.
We keep findings, not images. When the in-person Walkthrough launches, photos you take on a tour will be blurred for faces, mail, and personal details, read on the spot, and then deleted. Your camera roll is not a data asset we are quietly building on. The full detail is in the privacy policy, written to be read rather than skimmed.
Casaroo is not a home inspection, not an appraisal, and not professional advice. It is not a substitute for a licensed inspector, an engineer, an electrician, or your lawyer. It does not certify anything, and it never clears a home. Always get a licensed home inspection before you buy.
What it is: an impartial, sourced, free second opinion, built for the buyer, that makes you the most prepared person at the showing.
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