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PRESS RELEASE

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 2, 2001 

For Further Information Contact: Michael Murphy, (703) 293-1418

U.S. Inspect Announces Agreement With Yahoo! Real Estate 

Chantilly, VA - U.S. Inspect, Inc. today announced an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a global Internet communications, commerce and media company, to feature content from U.S. Inspect on Yahoo!® Real Estate (http://realestate.yahoo.com), thereby providing home buyers, sellers and owners with key inspection-related technical information about their homes.

Through the agreement, U.S. Inspect's House Facts will be featured throughout Yahoo! Real Estate, offering inspection-related technical information on various topics, including how various systems work, system components, common problems and environmental issues. U.S. Inspect's technical content on the Yahoo! Real Estate site enables visitors to gain a more in-depth understanding of location, function and operation of various systems and components of a home, such as electrical systems, exterior surfaces and cladding, and plumbing.

"This agreement provides an outstanding opportunity for U.S. Inspect to extend its online presence and put its brand name in front of Yahoo! Real Estate's audience of home buyers, sellers and owners. This will further bolster U.S. Inspect's position as the nation's leading home inspection company," said Keith S. Fimian, Chairman & Founder, U.S. Inspect.

"We are pleased to be working with U.S. Inspect to provide Yahoo! Real Estate consumers with valuable inspection-related information," said Nate Smith, Senior Producer, Yahoo! Real Estate. "This agreement supports our strategy to become an essential part of the real estate process for home buyers, sellers and owners by continuously offering Yahoo! Real Estate users enhanced content and services." 

Yahoo! Real Estate brings information and services together under one roof on a wide variety of home-related topics, so that people can easily find and purchase anything they need to sell, buy, or improve real estate. Yahoo! Real Estate enables people to view and post property listings; research a neighborhood through features such as home values, school reports, childcare guides, and city comparisons; view properties through virtual tours; make property-related decisions using the online loan and insurance centers, financial calculators, salary comparison tools, and credit reports; review mortgage rates and recommendations; and keep up with the latest industry news.

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U.S. Inspect, Inc. is the nation's leading provider of inspection services. The company operates in three principal segments - Residential Services, Corporate Services and Commercial Services - providing customers and clients with nationwide coverage for more than 50 inspection types, including general home, termite, radon, structural, private well and septic systems, pool/hot tub, replacement reserve studies and other specialty inspection services.
The U.S. Inspect network is comprised of more than 6,000 employee field consultants and independent supplier contractors who possess the kind of on-site professionalism and technical proficiency sought by homebuyers and sellers, corporate relocation professionals, community and planned unit development professionals, and commercial property owners in communities throughout the country.
From headquarter offices in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., U.S. Inspect annually produces more than 115,000 inspection reports for clients involved in all facets of the real estate business. The inspection services company of choice for Corporate America, U.S. Inspect will perform its millionth inspection in 2001.

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