Welcome! We are The Cerami Team, your Southwest Florida Pillar To Post Home Inspectors. We serve all of Collier, Lee, and Charlotte counties. After interviewing several franchises, we chose to be a part of the Pillar To Post family and its stellar brand. All Pillar To Post home inspectors undergo rigorous training and adhere to official and proven procedural guidelines. The culture of our brand is based on technical and industry excellence, honesty, and transparency. We recognize no home is perfect, but every defect has a solution and take great pride in providing homebuyers with confident home ownership.

Nick Cerami

Nick has a lifetime of experience through various family endeavors in industrial/residential construction, hotel/hospitality ownership, multi-dwelling residence management, and several other enterprises, providing tremendous background for home inspecting and business management. Nick manages our inspection staff, liaises with home buyers and agents, and oversees our service-provider partners. Nick received a BS from East Stroudsburg University and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Training & Certification

  • Licensed Florida Home Inspector
  • Certified Pillar to Post Home Inspector
  • FABI (Florida Association of Building Inspectors) member
  • Wind Mitigation Inspection Certificate
  • Certified Radon Measurement Technician

Joan Cerami

Joan graduated from the University of Hartford with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a concentration in Marketing. She worked in several different industries over a long career in advertising and marketing. Joan recently retired from the medical device industry as a Marketing Manager, where she managed projects from marketing communications, manufacturing/operations, and quality assurance. In this roll she prepared and executed a million-dollar budget for domestic and international advertising.

Joan handles the marketing and all the office details for our business.

The details...

Professional Training: Every Pillar To Post home inspector is trained in the classroom and in the field. You can have confidence in the fact that all Pillar To Post inspectors are required to continually upgrade their skills and to keep current with new technologies and professional standards.

  • We carry Workers Compensation, E&O, and general liability insurance for $2 million.
  • Our website includes real-time reviews from realtors and home buyers. Yes! –  realtors and their clients get an opportunity to provide a review after every inspection.  The reviews are automatically added to the customer review section of our home page at https://ceramiteam.pillartopost.com.
  • The state of Florida requires home inspectors take a minimum of 14 hours of CE training every year – we typically acquire 40+ hours of CE credits to stay current on Florida statutes and home inspection trends.
  • All inspectors have extensive background checks prior to ever working for us.
  • We are members of The Florida Association of Building Inspectors (FABI).