Our People

Steve Jacoby
Founder

Steve has over 30 years experience building, renovating and managing residential property. During the 30 years he has lived in Bozeman, he’s built homes with one of Bozeman's premier homebuilders, become intimate with the challenges of older homes as a remodeling contractor and managed residential rental property for numerous clients as well as himself. Along the way he has inspected, bought, remodeled and sold many properties. 

Steve earned two degrees.  One in Biological Science and the other in Physical Sciences.  He is currently a member of three national housing inspection associations, each with demanding standards:  The Housing Inspection Foundation, The American Society of Home Inspectors, and the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors.  He is a licensed Property Manager in the State of Montana.  He is the founder of MAREI, The Montana Association of Real Estate Inspectors.

He has deep experience in the "hows" and "whys" that define a building's physical structure. He has observed the effects of good and poor design, accepted and questionable building practices, and appropriate and inappropriate maintenance. He has studied these issues from the "inside" and after the passage of time. Since his experience spans the realms of new construction, renovation and maintenance, he has cultivated skills to see and understand the whole picture. This ability to observe the synergy of a home's systems, with particular attention to the effects of time, is what good home inspection is all about. 


Pam Pride
Business Manager

Pamela spent 20 years as an executive in Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft and Pepsi-Cola. During that time, she managed multi-million $ budgets and oversaw at various times the IT function, Operations, Corp Services and People Development. Five years ago she started her own consulting practice offering services to start-ups and small businesses. During that time she met Steve and moved to Bozeman to marry him. 


Don Biehl
Inspector

Don has over 35 years experience supporting and administering commercial and residential construction projects. As a draftsman, surveyor, and construction contract compliance officer for the U.S. Air Force, his responsibilities took him throughout the US as well as postings in Asia and Europe. He is deeply experienced in a broad and diverse collection of building technologies. And as you might imagine, with this multi-cultural experience, his communication skills are particularly adept. Since his arrival here in the Gallatin Valley, he has been significant in the survey and development of a 6000 acre ranch. His responsibilities included work in the creation of new infrastructure as well as the management of commercial building construction. 

Don is a Licensed Surveyor Intern by The State of Montana, (#14182). He is a graduate of the DeVry Institute, a School of Home Inspection.  He is a Certified Home Inspector with the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors.


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