Sewer Scope was founded in Indianapolis by Patrick Grayson. Cincinnati was the second metro the franchise opened. Brandon runs the local Cincinnati team. The standard travels: specialist sewer inspections, never a repair quote, never a plumber upsell. We hand you the record.
Sewer Scope opened in Indianapolis first. Cincinnati was the second metro the network entered, and the rationale was the same one that worked in Indy: mature housing stock concentrated in walkable, agent-active neighborhoods, plus enough real-estate transaction volume to support a specialist vendor.
Mature housing stock. Cincinnati's pre-1980 share is meaningfully higher than the U.S. Census American Community Survey average. The urban core (Over-the-Rhine, West End, Mt. Auburn, parts of Avondale and Walnut Hills) is largely pre-1900. The streetcar-era residential belts (Hyde Park, Mt. Lookout, Clifton, Westwood, Norwood, Pleasant Ridge) ran from the 1890s through the 1940s. Mariemont was platted in 1923 as one of the country's earliest planned communities and most original homes still stand (Wikipedia: Mariemont, Ohio, U.S. Census: Hamilton County). That distribution is the demand engine for sewer scope work.
Real-estate-vendor density. The Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors (CABR) represents the largest real-estate-agent network in the region and tracks transaction volume well above national per-capita averages for the metro (Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors). Where there is transaction density, there is vendor demand. The Cincinnati Area Multiple Listing Service (CMLS) aggregates listing data across the region and is the working tool every local agent uses, which means an agent who finds a vendor that closes deals on time recommends that vendor across an enormous referral surface.
The combination put Cincinnati second in the network's expansion plan, and it remains the model second metro for the franchise system: large enough to absorb the playbook, distinctive enough in its housing stock to need a local angle, and well-organized enough on the agent side to scale referrals quickly.
The Cincinnati team is intentionally small. The standard is the camera, the report, and the no-upsell discipline that defines the Sewer Scope network.
Cincinnati native. Ten-plus years leading service-based teams and working hands-on with clients. Runs the Cincinnati operations day to day across Hamilton, Butler, and Warren counties (plus Clermont OH and Boone/Kenton/Campbell KY). Hockey, trading card games, and a people-first approach.
Founded Sewer Scope in Indianapolis. Twenty-plus years real estate investing and construction experience. Set the network standard across all four metros. Hands-off in Cincinnati day-to-day; Brandon owns the local work.
Same professional report and high quality video format every time. Same 25-minute on-site scope. Same 24-hour PDF turnaround. Same "specialist, not a plumber" thesis. Cincinnati inherits the standard from Indianapolis HQ; the agent and buyer experience is consistent.
The single sentence behind Sewer Scope is the same in Cincinnati as it is in Indianapolis: we are not Cincinnati plumbers. We hand you the record.
That distinction is the whole product. A plumber doing scope work has a financial interest in finding repair work to quote. A specialist whose only job is the camera and the report has a financial interest in handing you a clean record (InterNACHI). NAR vendor selection guidance reinforces the same point: vendors recommended by an agent become a reflection of the agent's reputation, and a vendor who upsells the agent's buyer is a vendor that costs the agent referrals (NAR).
Cincinnati's housing stock makes the thesis especially clean here. Over-the-Rhine and West End buildings are pre-1900 with original clay tile or early cast iron laterals. Hyde Park and Mt. Lookout bungalows from 1900 to 1940 carry early cast iron mains that are now late-life. Mariemont's 1920s planned community has 100-year laterals at this point. Madeira, Kenwood, and Anderson Township post-war ranch belts sit squarely in the Orangeburg window. Every one of those housing eras produces findings on a scope. None of them shows up on a standard buyer home inspection. The buyer who scopes wins. The agent who orders the scope wins. The seller who scopes pre-listing wins. The only loser is the buyer's plumber who would have collected a panic-repair fee at the end of the inspection period.
Cincinnati Sewer Scope inherits the Indianapolis playbook and runs it locally. Same-week scheduling. PDF. No repair quote. Pay after inspection billing when the title-company integration ships across the network.
Sewer Scope today operates in four metros: Indianapolis (HQ, founded), Cincinnati (second), Denver (third, operating as a parallel-branded location), and Fort Wayne (smallest, brand-presence only). Patrick is positioning the network toward a target of 50 metros over five years, with Chicago and Atlanta as the next priority markets after the current four (U.S. Census Hamilton County).
Cincinnati holds an important position in that expansion plan. As the second metro, it is the proof point that the Indianapolis playbook transfers cleanly to a different housing-stock mix and a different metropolitan structure. The Indianapolis bungalow belts and Cincinnati's hillside neighborhoods produce different defect patterns on camera, but they both produce findings. The Indianapolis transaction volume and Cincinnati's CABR-organized agent network both produce the same kind of vendor demand. The framework holds; the local data changes.
For Cincinnati buyers, sellers, and agents, what matters is that the local team (Brandon and the on-the-ground operations) handles every scope while inheriting the network's reporting standard, equipment standard, and scheduling discipline. The brand is local. The standard is network-wide.
The Cincinnati story is the foundation. The four services are what we do.
Watch the video to see how the Indianapolis crew does their inspections.