Welcome to Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog

Please give a big Welcome to a new Member Heath

2008-07-26T06:55:01Z

Please join me in given a warm to yet another new member of the Active Rain Community.

Heath is a Broker own. I know he will not only impact us with some of his insight of the Real Estate Industry, and ideas he'll write about in his blog post's. I know he will enjoy and get a real hoot, out of the community as much as all of do.

I also know that he will find the community, a very valuable resource for learning, He will also become a productive member in the Active Rain community,

So please give a big welcome to Heath!

Your Active Rain outside Blog

2008-07-25T03:37:47Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a worry Free Home!

To buy or not to buy your Active Rain outside blog it's own domain name. Is a question that folk's have been asking them selves and asking others in the community.

Some have been seeing that the search engines are not finding or picking up their outside blogs with it's own domain name. Even with have the same post's on it as they have on their Acrive Rain blog. You may be thing how can that be.

Will it all has to do with ping. Pinging has to do with telling several services you have posted a new post to your blog. The ping, is used to get the word out to lists of all the most recent updated blogs on the net, to let PubSub and Technorati know to come on by to visit your blog and see what you have posted new and to help make sure blogger stay connected in the blogosphere.

There is a free tool you can use to do this job for you. So you don't have to go a riden all over the net doing the pinging yourself. So if you only pick one service to ping, look in to Ping-O-Matic.

Ping-O-Matic takes the worrys away of if the search engines are going to find you, and if ya are pinging the best places. They ping all of the most important services for you.

Heres a link to them: Ping-O-Matic as with all links that I put in to one of my blog post's it opens in a new window.

Happy bloging

This posting and the contents that are written here are the intellectual property of Baker Home Inspection and Consulting. All views and opinions expressed here by Baker Home Inspection and Consulting and those that are kind enough to leave a comment are just that.

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog is part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a sociale community network made up mostly of Professional's in the Real Estate Industry.

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

How do you spell having Bloging Success, Well I spell it Active Rain!

2008-07-22T20:08:40Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

Marketing on Active Rain does work.

I just got a call for an Inspection from my Active Rain Blog.

I have been eagerly waiting for a new contact for an Inspection from my blog its self, here in the AR community.

After we were done talken about the home they need Inspected, I asked him how he and his wife had came to find and pick me to call about their Home Inspection. He said that he had typed in Home Inspectors and looked at Home Inspector’s profiles, and read some of my blog post’s on Home Inspection’s, and some of my other ones in my Active Rain blog. And that he and his wife liked what I had written and had to say about things. They also liked the blog skin on my blog.

Now talk about making one feel very proud. His words sure did that for me today.

I just wanted to let all new and older folks in the active rain community, to know that marketing on active rain does help and work’s.

I sure don’t mind telling ya, I needed that call to show all this work has not been a waste of time.

Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 10 of 10 in a Series

2008-07-19T23:31:44Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

Don't just parrot the same comments over and over!

Commenting on others blog post's

When you have taken the time to read someone's blog's. The natural thing to start doing is to make comments on their occasional post's. You don't have to comment on each and every post they write, but it's nice if you do leave them a note or even an opinion on some of their post's over a few weeks or so. By doing this they will start recognizes your name, and in turn they will more than likely start checking through your blog to read and give you some comments.

As you take the time to write a comment on someone's blog post, have your comment really count for sometime. Show them that you really took the time to read and enjoy their post. ( Think about the times you have received a comment, that you knew the commenter had not taken the time to read your post, and how you felt, knowing they had not taken the time to do so ).

Something else you should think about when visiting someone's blog post. How do you feel when you see alot of folk's have viewed a post you have worked very hard on, and then did not even say howdy I stoped by. So please at least say howdy to them and let them know it was you who had visited them.

Don't just comment to get yourself those 25 point's. 25 x 10 = 250 points a day.

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog is part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a social community network made up mostly of Professional's in the Real Estate Industry.

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

Non-Member's of Active Rain are invited to make comments, and ask questions just as member's are.

In case you have not noticed, all of the graphices and images that I have used. Has messages that will appear, when you move your cursor over them. Why not have a little fun and read them.

Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 9 of 10 in a Series

2008-07-19T23:00:03Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

Ask your reads questions

One of the very best ways to get folk's to participate in a reallife conversation is to ask them a question, then why not do the something in your blog post's, there is really no different in the two. Ask them what they think? and what about how would you have handled this?

This will show your readers that you know that even some of the very smartest folk's sometimes need to bounce their ideas off others at times. Your blog readers are some of the best folk's to do this with, seen they will want you to suecceed in what you are working on. Folk's will like you for leting them give their opinions.

I hope you can be persuade to answer the 4 questions down below!

How is everyone enjoing this here series ?

How is business a goen for Y'all ?

What do ya think about the new outside Active Rain blog ?

What are your throughs about the new Localism ?

Everyone has questions, and there is not a thing wrong with asking them!

My you always get the answers, you are searching for!

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog is part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a soiale community network made up mostly of Professional's in the Real Estate Industry.

Non-Members of Active Rain are invited to make comments, and ask questions just as members are.

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 8 in a Series

2008-07-19T22:30:05Z

Build traffic to your blog

Always give folk's a reason to come back to visit you, give other bloggers a reason to link to you. Give folk's a reason to tell others about the great new post, you have taken time to write and post on your blog. You can build the traffic coming to your blog in many ways. Even though traffic is not the only measure of your success, you should have on your blog. More folk's reading your blog post's means more folk's are interacting, maken comments, contributing, and in general becoming aware of you and your service. Which is your goal of your blog in the first place.

Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 7 in a Series

2008-07-19T21:57:17Z

Making the most of a visit from folk's

When folk's start visiting your blog, it's all up to you, to see that it is easy for your visitors find the information they are looking for. Ask quwstions, and be sure to build relationshipe with your visitor. Have a E-Mail link on every page, that will make it mush better for your new visitors. That way they don't have to go looking for the contact you. Having the link at the end of your post, it's right there for your readers, when they are done reading.

Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 6 of 10 in a Series and a ThemThem!

2008-07-19T20:25:39Z

Knowledg is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

Being a successful blogger is a little like the movie Field of Dreams, you know what the voice keeped saying. ( Build it and they will come! )

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Build your Blog of Dreams

Always have fun with your blod, mix it up.

Blogging was meant for you to have fun as you, work on geting your name out to folk's. Blogging is also very very serious busines at times. As you are blogging and networking to build your business up, it will radically change the way you presente your business on the web, and at the same time change the way folk's view and relate to you. Remember to mix it up, go with some ideas and things and even put some fun links and intereting sites in to your blog posts.

Each and everyone of the folk's below are 100% true Professional's in their field, you will not go wrong by networking with each of them, if you are a member of Active Rain. If you are the public, you'll want to use them to help you in their part of the Industry.

Now let me introduce you, to some real fine Active Rain community bloggers.

You can learn Being a successful blogger from each and everyone of these fine folk's.

So be sure to add them to your must read and comment blog list.

It's a real honor, for me to be able to call each and everyone a friend.

They know how to Build a Blog of Dreams!

You'll also want to subgcribe to their bolgs.

We'll start with the ladys.

Just cilck on their photo to visit them.

Debbie Malone

Judi Morgan

Liz Carter

Marchel Peterson

Ricki Eichler

Chris Fisher

Carl Winters

Frank Schulte

Trey Thurmond

Duane Marlink

For some reason I can not have all my friend's photo's here with out the link's crossing over on each other.

Link to: Georgina Hunter

Link to: Mike Jones

Link to: Kent Simpson

Link to: Alan Kirkpatrick

Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 5 of 10 in a Series

2008-07-19T16:34:40Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

Participation in the blogging community

When you give folk’s the power to embrace your branding, they will give your message to other folk’s. By telling them of their experiences with you and your service, thereby extending you’re branding of yourself in a very positive way that just may have not happen if you had not taken the time to write your passionate blog messages.

Passionate messages can and will always spread like a wildfire, as soon as very passionate blog writer enters in to a blogging community, these folks can and well change the dynamics of the blogging community completely. Most folk’s will become very happy evangelists for your blog posts if you provide them with enough positive experiences. When you take the time to learn that creating passion isn’t about making folk’s like you, but it’s simply about using your passion to fuel even more passion. The total reality is when someone creates a stir, with their blog post readers will come. Always live on the edge, come up with new ideas, but also remember they will be loved by some and hated by others. Just like in everyday life relationship, sometimes you just can’t be sure if they are a true friend or not if you don’t take the time and listen to what folk’s have to say. Your blog is a very good place for that.

This posting and the contents that are written here are the intellectual property of Baker Home Inspection and Consulting. All views and opinions expressed here by Baker Home Inspection and Consulting and those that are kind enough to leave a comment are just that.

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog is part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a social community network made up mostly of Professional’s in the Real Estate Industry.

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

I am paid to be Critical for you and your family!

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Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 4 of 10 in a Series

2008-07-17T23:29:33Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a worry Free Home!

When commenting on other folk's blog's

Most Business Professional bolg community's, are a mixture of those that have been there for a time,news sources, folk's in one part or another, in the a industry. Bloging community, have group's for folk's to join. Your group of interest is a group in which you are very intereted in whats being written about, as well as the other member's of the group that are interested in what you have to write about.

Heres an example: let say you like to write about areas in Texas, then one group you could join in the Active Rain community is The Texas Real Estate Group, some groups put on contest's for their member's to entre. Just like the one going on starting 1 Aug. 2008 called Beat the Heat, in the Texas Real Estate Group. By commenting on blog post's in a group of interest, you are showing other member's of the group and their readers, they just may be also intersted in your blog post's. One of the best ways that folk's find new blog post's is through links of other folk's comments. So if you are willing to be involved by posting and commenting in some group's in the bloging community, then you'll reap the traffic rewards and build networking relationships with other member's and their reads in the community.

One more thing about comment's in any bloging community, you always want the comment's you make to be higher than the comment's you have received. This is one way to show others you are willing to be a team member of the bloging community. ( And not just a taker )

Score:	152203
Members Invited/Referred:	0
Blog Posts:	264 with this blog posting
Rank in New Hampshire:	4
Featured Posts:	0
Rank in Sullivan County:	1 (Featured Member)
Comments Received:	1676
Rank in Charlestown:	1 (Featured Member)
Comments Made:	4693
Blog Subscriptions:	76

This is how I stand at this time, on 17 July 2008. As you can see my comments made are higher than comment's reseived.

This posting and the contents that are written here are the intellectual property of Baker Home Inspection and Consulting. All views and opinions expressed here by Baker Home Inspection and Consulting and those that are kind enough to leave a comment are just that.

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog is a part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a social community network made up mostly of Professional's in the Real State Industry.

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

Non-Member's of AR are invited to make comments, and ask questions just as member's are.

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Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 3 of 10 in a Series

2008-07-16T23:37:53Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

The name of the game, is to be real

Two of the very important aspects of being an successful blogger, is knowing yourself and the folk's you are writing to and for. Way too many bloggers start out by trying to write blog post's everything in the world. By doing so they can quickly burn them selves out, there is just way to much out there to blog about. When you blog about each and everything you know about at one time. You want to take time to identify who you are as a blogger, then what you'll be bloging about, and just who the folk's are. That you want to read your blog post's. These are the main key's to having a successful blog.

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog is part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a soial community network made up mostly of Professional's in the Real Estate Industry.

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

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Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 2 in a Series

2008-07-15T23:27:40Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

You should write often

Writing often is not just good for your blog, it's really a absolute must for your bloging success. If you post to your blog less than once a day, is just like abandoning all of the potential your little ol blog has.

Being sure you are always, updating your blog on a very regular is a very key thing to do. This needs to be done for two major reason's when using blogging to put your name out there for folk's to find. Search engine's like google, to give ya juice. There is the fact that your readers are always looking for new and fresh content to read. If they don't get it from you, then there is always someone else that will do it. Search engines will also be looking for new and fresh written content on your blog. When you give it to them, they will visit your blog alot more often. This will result in your blog being and geting searched alot more regularly, and is going to carry alot more weight with all the search engines when they trust your ever changing blog content.

My the search engines be with you!

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog is part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a soial community network made up mostly of Professional's in the Real Estate Industry.

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

I am paid to be Critical for you and your family!

Non-member's of AR are invited to make comments, and ask questions just as member's are.

You can submit your comment and or question in the leave a response box below, be sure to add your name also. Or you can send me an E-Mail.

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Being a successful blogger, What does it take! 1 in a Series

2008-07-14T23:14:18Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

You want to be passinate

Showing passion in what you write about, will breed passion in your reads. If you aint enjoying what you are a blogging about, deen it is very difficult to be passionate about it. Always blog about things you really enjoy. Find your voice you enjoy writing about things in and be sure to stick with it. The passion you put into your blog writing and connecting with hundreds or even thousands of folk's that read your post's is contagious.

This can take time sometimes, so please don't ever give up.

This here old cowboy has only been a bloggen a little over a year now, but I have gotton to learn from some of the very best folk's that are member's of this here AR community. I take my hat off to each and everyone of them.

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blod is part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a social community network made up mostly of Professional's in the Real Estate Industry.

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

Non-Member's of AR are invited to make comments, and ask questions just as member's are.

You can submit your question in the leave a response box below, be sure to add your name also. Or you can send me an E-Mail .

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Staining Fungi

2008-07-12T23:36:25Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

The discoloration of wood by staining fungi happens just about exclusively in logs and very freshly sawn lumber. As a precaution, rough lumber is often dipped in a fungicidal bath right after sawing.

This is also called sap stains these fungi are most troublesome in softwoods, black color commonly called blue stain. Now in hardwoods, staining fungi just may create a blue or even a brown hues. The stains result from dark hyphae that permeate sapwood in search of stored starches and sugars. You can also spot inactive blue stain in doors alot of times, millwork and other pine products. Active staining fungi will sometimes discolor the bottom rails and the corners of pine windows that are kept wet from condensation. Now you will find these stains are indelible and will not wash off.

Staining fungi in their search for food, will destroy certain wood cells. This will result in the wood becomeing more permeable, and even more susceptible to decay. The strength and toughness are also slightly reduced as well.

To schedule your Home Inspection appointment E-Mail or Call 603-826-4207 Baker Home Inspection and Consulting.

Non-Member's of AR you are invited to make comments, and ask questions just as member's are.

If you have a question about Home Inspections, or about troubleshooting something to do with your home. I'll be more than glad to help you with them.

You can submit your question in the leave a response box below, be sure to add your name also. Or you can send me an E-Mail.

I live for referrals. I love referrals. If you're happy with my service, please share that with someone who is in the market for a home. Be sure to have them tell me who referred them so I can properly thank you!

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

In case you have not noticed, all of the graphices and images that I used has messages that will appear when you move your cursor over them. Why not have a little fun and read them.

Baker Home Inspection Blog is a part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a social community network made up mostly of Professional's in the Real Estate Industry.

How will I take care of you and your family, Home Inspection!

2008-07-12T22:53:29Z

Knowledge is the Power for Your Freedom to a Worry Free Home!

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Service offer you the most comprehensive home inspection available.

The first thing I do is to acclimatize myself to the surroundings of the area. I look around, to get an overall picture of the exterior, the grounds, the site and the house in general.

I start your inspection at the roof and evaluate not only the roof surface, but also the chimney, the ventilation system, the plumbing stack(s), the electrical service entrance and any other systems or components located on or near the roof.

The next step is to inspect the exterior of the home. I use a macro and microscope approach to look at both the big picture and all the details.

I then move to the inside of the house, and starting at the bottom, working my way up through the house into the attic. While inside, I address such things as the Structure, the Heating and Cooling System, the Electrical and Plumbing System, the interior finishes, the Insulation and Ventilation and accessories such as Fireplaces.

I do not guess on any of the inspections and reports!

I utilize advanced high tech tools such as a Digital Circuit Breaker Finder, Digital Clamp Meter, Digital MultiMate, Digital Moisture Meter, Digital Laser Thermometer, Microwave Tester and Micro Inspection Camera. I also use a Digital Camera to take photos to add to your report. I use these tools to help confirm my findings throughout your prospective home.

Following your home inspection, I will carefully analyze the information that I have collected.

My evaluation also includes looking up any manufacture recalls you may need to know about. Then all of this is communicated to you through a detailed computer generated report, which includes descriptions along with digital photos of any major defects and deficiencies of the systems in and out of the house, as well as any recommended improvements. This will help you prioritize the improvements and develop a blueprint for your future in the home.

The report generating part can take 2 to 3 hours to complete. Your report will be available via e-mail, up loadable from my web server with a password, or a hard copy can be sent via “snail mail” or hand delivered to you by me.

Reinsertions are available for an additional charge. Closing day walk-through inspection with you is available for free. I would need at least 2 weeks’ notice.

Customer Service - I have been in the customer service business for over 20 years and I know how to take care of my clients. If you have questions before or after your home inspection, my phone line is always open. I can and do promise you I will return your phone call as soon as possible if I do not pick up right away.

(It’s always a good idea to have an independent authority conduct your home inspection. That way you have the security of knowing you have a complete and accurate account of your home's condition).

E-mail and phone consultations will be available for as long as you own your home!

I hope you and your family always have a fun and safe day!

Baker Home Inspection Blog is a part of the Active Rain Real Estate Network, which is a social community network made up mostly of Professional’s in the Real Estate Industry.

To schedule your Home Inspection appointment E-Mail or Call 603-826-4207 Baker Home Inspection and Consulting.

Non-Member’s of AR you are invited to make comments, and ask questions just as member’s are.

If you have a question about Home Inspections, or about troubleshooting something to do with your home. I’ll be more than glad to help you with them.

You can submit your question in the leave a response box below, be sure to add your name also. Or you can send me an E-Mail.