Tampa Home Inspector

Bob Wisnewski

Certified Licensed Home Inspector

Tampa's Home Inspector

 

 

 

 

Our Home Inspectors at On The Gulf Home Inspection Services are available 7 days a week servicing Tampa, Largo, Clearwater, Pinellas Park, Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor, Dunedin, Oldsmar, Tarpon Springs, St Petersburg and the surrounding Tampa Bay area to accommodate your schedule and all of your inspection needs.

Contact us at 727-421-7650 or by email for any questions you may have regarding either a Home Inspection, Pre-Sale Listing Inspection, Four Point Insurance Inspection, Roof Certification Inspection or a Home Maintenance Inspection.

Click on the nose of "Snoopy" (below) our Office Manager for any questions you may have regarding our Services of for a Quote.

 About the City of Tampa

The City of Tampa is the largest city in Hillsborough County, is the county seat and is the third most populous city in Florida.  Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida, approximately 200 miles northwest of Miami, 180 southwest of Jacksonville, and 20 miles northeast of St. Petersburg. The population of the city represents approximately one-third of the total population of Hillsborough County.  Tampa's economy is founded on a diverse base that includes tourism, agriculture, construction, finance, health care, government, technology, and the port of  Tampa. Contributing to the success of our community is the way businesses, City government, and citizens work together to make Tampa a better place to live.

Tampa is a city in Hillsborough County on the west coast of the state of Florida.

The area was once a home to various native American cultures, including the Tocobaga. Its modern history began with the founding of Fort Brooke in today's downtown in 1823, which in turn brought a small population of civilians to the area.

Growth came slowly and sporadically for the village of Tampa during its first half-century, as poor transportation links, conflicts with the Seminole tribe, and repeated outbreaks of yellow fever made development difficult. This changed in the 1880s, when the coming of the railroad and new industries brought sudden prosperity and attracted many new residents to the town. By the turn of the 19th century, Tampa had grown into one of the largest cities in Florida, a status it has kept ever since.

Tampa

There is some dispute as to the origin and meaning of the name Tampa. It is believed to mean "sticks of fire" in the language of the Calusa, a Native American tribe that once lived south of the area. Other historians claim the name Tampa refers to "the place to gather sticks". "Sticks of fire" may also relate to the high concentration of lightning strikes that Tampa Bay receives every year during the hot and wet summer months. Toponymist George R. Stewart writes that the name was the result of a miscommunication between the Spanish and the Indians, the Indian word being "itimpi", meaning simply "near it".

Ybor City and the cigar industry

The new railroad link attracted another industry which would finally make Tampa prosper. In 1885, theTampa Board of Trade helped broker a land deal with Vicente Martinez Ybor to move his cigar manufacturing operations to Tampa from Key West. Ybor had been attracted by Tampa's warm and humid, which kept tobacco fresh and workable, and its new transportation links. Close proximity (and Henry Plant's steamships) made import of fine Cuban tobacco easy by sea, and Plant's railroad made shipment of finished cigars to the rest of the US market easy by land. This relationship is acknowledged in the Seal of Tampa, which depicts Plant's steamship Mascotte, a vessel that carried thousands of immigrants and tons of tobacco to Tampa.

Since Tampa was still a small town at the time (population less than 5,000), Ybor built hundreds of small houses around his factory to accommodate the immediate influx of thousands of Cuban and Spanish cigar workers. Other cigar manufacturers soon moved in, and Ybor City (as the settlement was dubbed) quickly made Tampa a major cigar production center. Ybor City began as a separate municipality, but, seeing the potential for greatly increased tax rolls, the city of Tampa annexed the bustling community in 1886.

Starting in the late 1880s, many Italian and a few eastern European Jewish immigrants also arrived, making Tampa one of the most diverse communities in the American South. These new arrivals had difficulty breaking into the insular cigar businesses, so many opened businesses and shops that catered to the cigar workers. The majority of Italian immigrants came from Alessandria Della Rocca and Santo Stefano Quisquina, two small Sicilian towns with which Tampa still maintains strong ties.

In 1892, Scottish businessman Hugh MacFarlane founded West Tampa, a new community across the Hillsborough River that sought to attract more cigar factories and workers. By 1900, the town already had one of the largest populations in Florida, mostly Cubans involved in the cigar industry. West Tampa was annexed by Tampa in 1925.

Downtown revitalization

Former Tampa mayor Pam Iorio has made the redevelopment of Tampa's downtown, especially bringing in residents to the decidedly non-residential area, a priority. Several residential and mixed-development high-rises are in various stages of planning or construction, and a few have already opened. Another of Mayor Iorio's initiatives is the Tampa Riverwalk, a plan which intends to make better use of the land along the Hillsborough River in downtown where Tampa began. Several museums are part of the plan, including the Tampa Bay History Center, the Tampa Children's Museum, and the recently opened Tampa Museum of Art.

 

Tampa Parks

Curtis Hixon Park (813) 259-7376 700 N Ashley Dr, Tampa, FL
Eureka Springs Park (813) 744-5536 6400 Eureka Springs Rd,Tampa, FL
Centennial Park - Ybor City (813) 248-3712 E 8th Ave & N 18th St,Tampa, FL
Plant Park (813) 274-7729 401 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL
Upper Tampa BayPark (813) 855-1765 8001 Double Branch Rd, Tampa, FL
Aids Memorial Park (813) 242-5412 102 W Hyde Park Pl, Tampa, FL
Recreation Administration (813) 274-8615 1420 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL
Al Lopez Park (813) 931-2121 4810 N Himes Ave, Tampa, FL
Friendship Playground (813) 832-1200 4124 W Bay To Bay Blvd, Tampa, FL
Picnic Island Park (813) 832-1222 7404 Picnic Island Blvd, Tampa, FL
Tampa Parks Office (813) 274-8615 102 W Hyde Park Pl, Tampa, FL 
Ybor Centennial Park (813) 242-5370 1800 E 8th Ave, Tampa, FL  
Hillsborough County Parks (813) 635-3500 10119 Windhorst Rd, Tampa, FL 
Hyde Park Village Circle (813) 254-1597 804 S Village Cir, Tampa, FL
Eighteenth Street Playground (813) 242-5412 2902 N 32nd St, Tampa, FL
Hillsborough County Parks & Recreation Centers (813)  1111 E 139th Ave, Tampa, FL 
Charles B Williams Park (813) 274-7433 309 N Hubert Ave, Tampa, FL
Lettuce Lake Park (813) 987-6204 6920 E Fletcher Ave, Tampa, FL
University Area Community Park (813) 903-2200 14015 N 22nd St, Tampa, FL 
Sandra W Freedman Tennis Cmplx (813) 259-1664 59 Columbia Dr, Tampa, FL 
Gulf South Office Center (813) 933-6800 7821 N Dale Mabry Hwy, #110, Tampa, FL
Hillsborough County Parks & Recreation Centers (601 E Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL
Hampton Park (813) 972-5699 16301 Tampa Palms Blvd W, Tampa, FL
Compton Park (813) 972-0897 16101 Compton Dr, Tampa, FL
Gadson Park (813) 832-1220 6901 S Macdill Ave, Tampa, FL
Rey Park Ctr Playground (813) 259-1673 2301 N Howard Ave, Tampa, FL
22nd Street Park (813) 242-5412 7801 N 22nd St, Tampa, FL
Veteran's Memorial Park and Museum (813) 744-5502 3602 N Us-301, Tampa, FL
Cyprus Greene Park Pool  E Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Tampa, FL
New Tampa Community Park (813) 975-2794 17302 Commerce Park Blvd, Tampa, FL
Henry & Ola Park (813) 231-5279 300 W Henry Ave,Tampa, FL
Hillsborough County Parks & Recreation Centers Eureka Springs Rd, Tampa, FL 
Cypress Point Office Park (813) 963-0168 10006 N Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 
American Legion Park (813) 231-5275 106 E Sligh Ave, Tampa, FL
Port Tampa Park Community Center W Lancaster St, Tampa, FL
Ben T Davis Beach (813) 477-4543 7650 W Courtney Campbell Cswy, Tampa, FL
Broadstone Citrus Park LLC (813) 920-8001 8001 Gunn Hwy, Tampa, FL
Lake Park (813) 264-3806 17302 Dale Mabry Hwy N, Lutz, FL  
Flatwoods Wilderness Park (813) 987-6211 13330 Morris Bridge Rd, Tampa, FL