Dan Cullen
Founder and Partner, Domicile Consulting
Dan Cullen
Dan’s long and diverse building construction career began in 1976 when he became an apprentice carpenter. Achieving journeyman status four years later, Dan worked in home building, industrial truss repair and concrete construction before founding his own remodeling and construction company in 1981. After fifteen years improving and repairing homes in the Chicago area, Dan brought his diverse construction expertise to an insurance service firm, where he worked as a home inspector for Allstate, American Family and other insurance companies.
In 1999 Dan founded Domicile Consulting. Since that time he has performed thousands of home inspections throughout Chicagoland and built a loyal base of repeat customers via his outstanding service, dedication and integrity. He is the lead educator for the Domicile entity for home inspection education and routinely “re-educates” builders and developers on the best building practices.
Retiring from 31 years of service with the Chicago Fire Department in 2010, Dan now spends his time helping others best understand their property’s condition in addition to enjoying his family.
Ross Neag
Partner, Domicile Consulting
Ross Neag
Ross knows homes, inside and out. He began his building construction career in 1997, spending two years as apprentice to a highly demanded General Contractor and Master Carpenter before founding his own home renovation company in 1999. Over the next seven years, Ross personally completed dozens of projects in the Chicago area as well as constructed his own Energy Star home, which scored a 52 on the Home Energy Rating System (HERS), using 48% less energy than the HERS reference home.
Ross expanded his building science knowledge with more than a year of education in RESNET training for energy audits, the completion of the Building Performance Institute’s curriculum for Building Analyst and certification as an Air Balancer by the National Balancing Institute. In addition, he is a Level I certified Thermographer through Snell Infrared, the nation’s leading educational provider for infrared/thermal imaging.
A year after founding his own home inspection company, Ross joined Domicile in 2007 where he has put his experience and expertise to work for nearly 2000 clients in need of inspection, energy and moisture related issues.
He resides in Old Irving with his wife Julie.
Mike Cummins
Mike Cummins
Mike has been working with Domicile Consulting as a home inspector since mid-2010 and has completed over 600 home inspections during that time. He brings over 25 years experience in commercial and residential property restoration. His construction experience began in the hospitality industry as a Project Manager developing renovation project specifications, managing contractors, inspecting and approving completed projects. He expanded his knowledge managing large multi-family residential renovation and new construction projects. Mike has also purchased, renovated and resold several single family homes which has allowed him to encounter and develop effective solutions to many types of issues found in most homes. He is passionate about helping home buyers understand the complexities of the systems and components in the homes they are preparing to purchase.
Andrew Danner
Andrew Danner
Andrew’s career in the real estate industry began in the 1980′s while managing construction, sales and leasing of condominiums and apartments in the Madison, Wisconsin area. After moving to Illinois in 1994 he progressed through the ranks at a mid-sized, Chicago area development company ultimately managing land development, construction management, sales and service of single and multi-family homes in communities throughout the area. Andrew has participated in over one thousand walk-through and customer service inspections on both sides of the equation and has also developed custom homes through his own company in the North suburbs as well as numerous condominium remodeling projects in Chicago high-rise buildings. He also currently sits as a condominium association board member of a 131 unit Chicago high-rise building in the Streeterville neighborhood and is a licensed Illinois Real Estate Broker helping provide a well rounded prospective in client relations.
Andrew’s emphasis in customer relations and satisfaction is through a hands-on and unwavering dedication to client success.
Ken Whitelaw
Ken Whitelaw
Kenny has always been a “hands on” type of guy. His experience with homes and their systems began in 1987 with his first home purchase. Becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of work and the lack of integrity he saw in contractors interviewed for projects on his own home, he taught himself the skills necessary for it’s proper and safe restoration.
Kenny’s road to joining Domicile Consulting began in 2002, when he moved to Chicago and started his own business offering quality handyman services to homeowners and businesses throughout the Chicagoland area. One of his first clients was, ironically, Domicile founding partner Dan Cullen.
Over the ensuing years and at Dan’s insistent encouragement (some would call it nagging), Kenny earned his Illinois Home Inspection License. Now a member of the Domicile Consulting team, Kenny has found a place where he can best use his deep remodeling experience and advance his desire to help people own safe and reliable homes.