Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

• Preparing lists of all legal instruments applying to a specific piece of land and the buildings on it.
• Examining documentation such as mortgages, liens, judgments, easements, plat books, maps, contracts, and agreements for verifying factors such as properties’ legal descriptions, ownership, or restrictions.
• Copying or summarizing recorded documents, such as mortgages, trust deeds, and contracts, that affect property titles.
• Examining individual titles for determining if restrictions, such as delinquent taxes, will affect titles and limit property using.
• Preparing reports describing any title encumbrances encountered during searching activities, and outlining actions needed for clearing titles.
• Verifying accuracy and completeness of land related documents accepted for registration, preparing rejection notices when documents are not acceptable.
• Conferring with realtors, lending institution personnel, buyers, sellers, contractors, surveyors, and courthouse personnel for exchanging title related information or for resolving problems.