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Plumbing Inspection in New Mexico

Across the 5 New Mexico towns we route calls in, 20% of owner households moved in during 2018 or later. Every one of those sales came with an inspection, and every one of those inspections excluded the same list of things.

The one-paragraph answer

Owner turnover across the 5 covered towns in New Mexico runs at 20% since 2018. What a standard inspection covers is fixed by the published standards of practice, and the drain line beyond the house is outside them.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038.

PresalePipe is a referral service, not a contractor or a home inspector. We connect homeowners and buyers with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no inspections and no work, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

Turnover across New Mexico

Towns in New Mexico	Count
Change hands often (28% of owners or more since 2018)	0
About the middle (16–28%)	3
Rarely change hands (under 16%)	2

The spread inside the state is the point. Farmington is highest at 21% of owners having arrived since 2018; Navajo Dam is lowest at 3%. A state figure describes neither of them.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038, 2023 release. Weighted across 27,454 occupied housing units, of which 18,942 are owner-occupied. This measures recent moves as a share of the housing stock, not sales per year.

The largest towns we route in New Mexico

Town	Owners who moved in since 2018	Occupied homes
Farmington	21%	19,452
Aztec	21%	5,505
Fruitland	5%	1,354
Flora Vista	20%	906
Navajo Dam	3%	237

What is excluded, everywhere

The exclusions do not vary by state. Both InterNACHI and ASHI describe the inspection as covering readily accessible, visually observable systems and state that it is not technically exhaustive. Both exclude wells and pumps, septic and wastewater treatment, water quality and potability, fire sprinklers and gas leak testing. InterNACHI additionally names water flow and pressure, floor drains, shower pan testing and polybutylene piping.

What varies by town is how many people here have recently had a report in their hands to read the exclusions in. The full list is on its own page.

Source: InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice; ASHI Standard of Practice.

Checking a plumber in New Mexico

Checking a credential in New Mexico

New Mexico licenses are issued by the New Mexico Construction Industries Division, Regulation and Licensing Department, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

Towns we route in New Mexico

Aztec 21% moved in since 2018
Farmington 21% moved in since 2018
Flora Vista 20% moved in since 2018
Fruitland 5% moved in since 2018
Navajo Dam 3% moved in since 2018

Inspection report in front of you?Read us the plumbing lines and nothing else — we do not want the document. We will route you to a contractor covering your area who can quote the items on it, and you are never charged by us. Inspections are the theme here; calls of every kind are routed.

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