NEW JERSEY, USA HOME INSPECTION + SOFTWARE OPEN TO INTERESTING PROBLEMS

Leo Betancor

HOME INSPECTOR / TOKEN ENGINEER

I inspect houses, run an inspection company, and keep building software around problems I encounter.

OPEN TO INTERESTING PROBLEMS
CODE QUALITY
VIBES
TOKEN CONSUMPTION
INDUSTRIAL
PRODUCTS SHIPPED
08
CRAWLSPACES
TOO MANY

Index / Builds

2023 — 2026 · 011 ENTRIES
001OPRASearchPROPERTY DATALIVE→ 002NJFloodZonePROPTECH / GISLIVE→ 003LeadSafe.appCOMPLIANCE SOFTWARELIVE→ 004RadonOpsOPERATIONS SOFTWAREPRIVATE→ 005CPA Practice OSBUSINESS SOFTWAREPRIVATE→ 006OilTank.appPROPTECHLIVE→ 007Smart ChoiceBUSINESS WEBSITELIVE→ 008Call Smart ChoiceCONVERSION SITELIVE→ 009SCI Lead PageLEAD GENERATIONLIVE→ 010SCI CommercialCOMMERCIAL / B2BLIVE→ 011Block + Lot / early toolsEXPERIMENTSARCHIVED→
01 / PROPERTY TECHNOLOGY

Data tools for New Jersey real estate

OPRASearch
NJFloodZone
OilTank.app
02 / INDUSTRY & BUSINESS SOFTWARE

Operating systems for real companies

LeadSafe.app
RadonOps
CPA Practice Management
03 / BUSINESS & WEB

The digital stack of an inspection company

Smart Choice Inspections
Call Smart Choice · Lead Funnel
Smart Choice Commercial
001  /  PROPERTY INTELLIGENCE / REAL ESTATE DATA PLATFORM LIVE / ACTIVE DEVELOPMENToprasearch.app

One address. A ridiculous amount of property data.

A New Jersey property-research platform that consolidates fragmented public-property information into one interface built around an address. It grew out of the real problems encountered during inspections and real-estate research.

THE PROBLEM
NJ property information lives across a ridiculous number of systems.
THE BUILD
A single property research interface designed around an address: parcel lookup, permits, public records, flood and environmental data, shareable research.
THE RESULT
Faster due diligence without opening fifteen government websites.
  • INSPECTORS
  • REALTORS
  • ATTORNEYS
  • LENDERS
  • BUYERS
OPEN oprasearch.app ↗
oprasearch.app
oprasearch — address result view
002  /  PROPTECH / FLOOD RISK RESEARCH PUBLICnjflood.zone

How close is the water, really?

A consumer-friendly flood-risk research tool for New Jersey properties: look up an address, see the FEMA flood zone, how far the nearest zone is, elevation context, and what it actually means.

THE PROBLEM
Flood maps exist, but reading them like a normal person is nearly impossible.
THE BUILD
Address lookup over FEMA data with distance-to-zone, elevation, simplified risk explanations and map-based visualization.
THE RESULT
A buyer can understand their flood exposure in one screen instead of one afternoon.
  • NJ ONLY
  • FEMA DATA
  • PROPERTY RISK TOOL
OPEN njflood.zone ↗
njflood.zone
njflood.zone — map + zone distance
003  /  COMPLIANCE SOFTWARE / LEAD-SAFE CERTIFICATION LIVEleadsafe.app

Compliance software built by someone who actually does the inspections.

Software centered on lead-safe inspection and certification workflows. Instead of learning an industry and then designing software for it, the industry came first and the software followed.

THE PROBLEM
Lead-safe compliance is paperwork-heavy, deadline-driven, and easy to get wrong.
THE BUILD
A workflow tool built around how inspections, results, certificates and reinspections actually move through a business.
THE RESULT
Compliance records that stay organized without a filing cabinet or a spreadsheet.
  • PROPERTIES
  • INSPECTIONS
  • CERTIFICATES
  • REINSPECTIONS
OPEN leadsafe.app ↗
leadsafe.app
leadsafe.app — inspection workflow
004  /  OPERATIONS SOFTWARE / RADON TESTING MANAGEMENT PRIVATE / IN PRODUCTIONprivate

Radon testing has a lot of moving parts. So I built the software to run it.

Custom operations software built for Smart Choice Inspections’ radon-testing workflow. Not a portfolio demo: software created around an actual operational need, designed by the person who runs the workflow.

THE PROBLEM
Radon testing means devices, placements, pickups, timing windows and reports, all tracked by hand.
THE BUILD
An internal system shaped around the real sequence of a radon job, from scheduling to result delivery.
THE RESULT
The business runs its radon operation in one place, in production, every week.
  • INTERNAL SOFTWARE
  • BUILT FOR SMART CHOICE
  • IN PRODUCTION
private
radonops — dashboard (no customer data)
005  /  PRACTICE MANAGEMENT / INTERNAL BUSINESS SOFTWARE PRIVATE / CLIENT SYSTEMprivate

Software shaped like the office, not the other way around.

A custom practice-management platform designed around how an architecture office actually works instead of forcing the firm into generic software.

THE PROBLEM
Off-the-shelf tools made the practice adapt to the software.
THE BUILD
A private platform built for the firm’s own projects, clients, jobs and day-to-day operations.
THE RESULT
One system the team actually uses, because it mirrors how they already work.
  • PRIVATE SOFTWARE
  • CLIENT / INTERNAL SYSTEM
private
cpa practice os — overview
006  /  INSPECTION UTILITY / PROPERTY RISK TOOL LIVEoiltank.app

The expensive unknown under the lawn.

A focused property tool built around one of the costliest surprises in New Jersey real-estate transactions: underground and heating oil tanks.

THE PROBLEM
Oil tanks are invisible, expensive, and routinely discovered too late.
THE BUILD
A standalone product dedicated to oil-tank risk and property due diligence.
THE RESULT
One more unknown turned into a question with an answer before closing.
  • TANK
  • GROUND
  • SCAN
  • PROPERTY
  • RISK
OPEN oiltank.app ↗
oiltank.app
oiltank.app — property risk view
ORIGIN STORY, ABRIDGED

The best software I've built started with me saying: “Why the fuck are we still doing this manually?”

007—010  /  BUSINESS & WEBSMART CHOICE INSPECTIONS LLC

Smart Choice: a business with its own software stack

Not four unrelated websites. One inspection company, and the digital infrastructure built around it — from the first click to the phone call to the operations behind the scenes.

smartchoice — homepage
007LIVE

Main Website

The company’s primary site: brand, service pages, sample reports, booking and local SEO pages. An evolving platform, not a brochure.

callsmartchoice — mobile
008LIVE

Call Smart Choice

Remove everything between the customer and the phone call. A mobile-first conversion site with one job and one CTA.

lead page — above the fold
009LIVE

Lead Funnel

Turn paid, search and social traffic into inspection inquiries without making the visitor navigate the whole company website.

sci commercial — services
010LIVE

Commercial

Residential branding doesn’t work for commercial clients, so commercial property work gets its own B2B experience and quote workflow.

011  /  THE ARCHIVE  ·  ARCHIVED

Block + Lot & the early parcel tools

Before OPRASearch became OPRASearch, there were several increasingly ridiculous attempts at making New Jersey parcel data easier to use. They're here because iteration is the point.

  • v0.1
  • v0.2
  • v0.3
THE DAY JOB  /  WHERE THE IDEAS COME FROM

Home
Inspections

LICENSED NJ HOME INSPECTOR
OWNER — SMART CHOICE INSPECTIONS LLC
ROOF TO CRAWLSPACE

Licensed home inspector and owner of Smart Choice Inspections, New Jersey. Hundreds of homes, roof to crawlspace. Zero sugar-coating. Every piece of software above exists because something in this job was slower, dumber, or more scattered than it needed to be.

  • RESIDENTIAL
  • COMMERCIAL
  • RADON TESTING
  • LEAD-SAFE
  • OIL TANK RISK
See the Smart Choice stack →