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A common way that defects happen in homes is they simply get done wrong from the get-go…
My 2009 Thanksgiving Day here on ActiveRain has been an Adventure well folks, I signed on to…
Blogging for points only, - 11/26/2009 12:43 PM
As is have been reading blogs and looking for information throughout ActiveRain i have notices a…
The Pail Princess! - 11/26/2009 08:15 AM
She sits on a red, white & blue green five gallon bucket that says, “drywall-compound…
Wordless Wednesday Redux - 11/25/2009 09:51 AM
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She loves me----she loves me not! - 11/24/2009 12:00 PM
One of my favorite Monte Python segments was the one about the Black Knight in, “In Search…
Don’t you just HATE cats! - 11/23/2009 12:00 PM
It is bound to happen----that sellers and repair persons and I are not always going to see..
I frequently post a picture and ask what the defect in the picture is, or even what it is a…
If your not a ActiveRain RainMaker You need to Sign Up Today just why should you, will you have…
The thought is the recession is over… I just don't agree.. with 14% of homeowners missing a…
Breakfast of Bloggers! - 11/19/2009 08:54 AM
Yup---I am going to blog about breakfast cereal! OK----if you have kids you know what it is…
Wordless Wednesday in Seattle - 11/18/2009 08:19 AM
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In Seattle there are a lot of older homes with partial basements. The rest of the house will…
Can anything really “spiral out of control? ” It sure seems so. What do we mean…
When we bought our house----long before I was a Seattle Home Inspector----and started making it…
“Breaker-Breaker-1/5” - 11/14/2009 07:54 AM
Little Billy Breaker was 15 and had a job. Quite a simple job. A total “trip”…
Earlier this week (or maybe it was over the weekend) I was out in the backyard when I noticed this…
Sorry----this is not about the Grateful Dead Band----and only “loosely” about Jack..
Wordless Wednesday in Kentucky - 11/11/2009 09:20 AM
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It's funny, but when I joined ActiveRain at the end of December of last year I never thought I'd…
Kids L ♥ VE to play hide and seek. When my kids were little we used to have some really…
After ordering pizza---delivered----to your new home the day you move in, the next big event at…
There are not all that many roofs that I do not walk on---but one of the kinds I don’t…
Rumpledsowsear - 11/06/2009 09:10 AM
Once upon a time (for some reason I seem to be living into fairy tales lately) in the not-so-far…
Once upon a time, there was a little blogger who had a little blog at He was friends with a…
Got Blog Fodder? - 11/03/2009 01:52 PM
I would be very surprised if there is anyone that frequents this site that does not know the…
If you missed my first two posts on how to spice up your blogs and comments with special symbols…
A Love Story - 11/02/2009 07:57 PM
I just had to re-post this blog Lisa did today… Thank you Lisa and I love you too. Via…
In terms of what Home Inspectors do, does it really matter whether any of the trades that built…
I often wonder, about some of the things I find wrong in homes. Is it really only home…
We all know how addictive the Internet can be----especially to ActiveRain There have been…
As both a Licensed Structural Pest Inspector and a Licensed Home Inspector in Washington…
The objective of Localism is to provide important real estate related information to buyers/sellers…
Larry Bettag is coming on STRONG… and his many posts about almost everything in his life do…
“They sure don’t make them like they used to. ” Everyone has heard this---…
Today I passed the 500, 000 point milestone on ActiveRain It's been a journey of a little over…
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Life can be viewed as a room full of doors connected to rooms full of doors. All we have to…
Go ahead---turn me on! - 10/27/2009 01:20 PM
Sometimes we have those “light-bulb” moments in our lives where something just..
Bob Stewart recently challenged us to write a post explaining how we've actually used our blog…
Teaching old dogs new tricks. - 10/25/2009 08:46 AM
Does anyone actually believe that you can not teach old dogs new tricks? While this may be…
Power of Activerain!! - 10/24/2009 11:45 PM
Today, an appraiser called me, apologizing because she was calling so late(6:30?? ) on a weekend…
The drain. Yes, without a drain a bathtub would be a quite painful apparatus----and probably…
Some people claim that there was life before Internet. Interesting. May be these are the same…
Wordless Wednesday in Connecticut - 10/21/2009 09:47 AM
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If there is anything that makes the lives of inspectors difficult, it is house defects that have…
From my point score, it's obvious that I've written more than a few blogs The ActiveRain network…
Well here is your chance to BE from another planet. The current economic climate on Planet…
A very nice Mountain in Hawaii asked the question, “What was life like before ActiveRain..
I realy wish people understood that their post may be at the top of Google 5 minutes before it…
Another Indianapolis (Oaklandon) Home Sold A few weeks ago I wrote a post in regards to how I…
Sorry if I have offended any cigar smokers out there, but by the time the smoke clears maybe you…
I receive email updates to a thread regarding the $8, 000 tax credit and read a comment today that…
I really don't know how I got on the mailing list for this program, but I watched the 2 and a…
Wordless Wednesday - 10/14/2009 09:37 AM
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I have been accused of being “clever” myself on occasion, so I tend to recognize it…
It was evident that the house had very recently been re-carpeted---this is common with houses…
On a recent inspection I found this little fellow in the Master Bathroom shower. In case you don…
I'm reblogging this because I don't see that Joe received an answer to his question. Anyone have…
When something is not quite right on a home inspection----it usually just does not “feel…
Wordless Wednesday at RainCamp - 10/07/2009 08:09 AM
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In the early 60’s there was a “Twilight Zone” episode that had a profound…
I was reading a fellow AR member's post this morning regarding the tax credit and whether or not…
Julie and I went to a wedding of a friend of ours in Bend, Oregon this past Saturday. It is a…
It is normal to lose focus in ones life occasionally----to actually feel like things around us…
There is nothing quite like sitting out on the back porch after a hard day in the salt mines,…
I am trying to promote myself on the internet with as many free sites as I can. It takes time and…
Help DocuSign help you! In order for you to fully reap the benefits of esignatures for your real…
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Japanese Garden, Seattle, WA - 09/29/2009 08:01 AM
Along with the Conservatory (and not too far from each other), there is another very cool place…
photo courtesy of matze_ott REBlogWorld and BlogWorld 2009 - Why? As you may know from…
I had a really fun Saturday… I wrote a parady on short sales called Did Cavemen Have The Same…
I don't like some of the tactics I see from agents. First one is the fee for a "negotiator" that is…
photo courtesy of nodomain1 I love blogging. You may have noticed before, but it's a fact, I…
Good fences make good neighbors - 09/27/2009 11:51 AM
There is a saying here in the NW that, “Good fences make good neighbors. ” Perhaps…
 
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