vermont real estate: 31 Days of December Challenge-Day Twenty Four and a Farm - 12/24/10 05:29 PM
31 Days of December Challenge-Day Twenty Four and a Farm, it Christmas eve! are you ready? have you been real good? Santa knows if you have or not! Its not going to long now before Santa will be a call-en on you! We need to set out some mighty good goodies to help get Santa through the rest of the night, and for Santa to enjoy.
Today I did an Inspection of a Dairy Farm, for some mighty fine folks. The home and other buildings sit on 150 acres. As I was doing the out side area of the home … (25 comments)
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vermont real estate: 31 Days of December Challenge Day Eight A call from an Attorney - 12/08/10 05:03 PM
31 Days of December Challenge Day Eight A call from an Attorney, this morning I started my day out by the first phone call coming in being from an Attorney.
This phone call that I received first thing this morning, was from an Attorney wanting to know if there was anyway that I could come to their office this morning for a meeting. I can't go into full details of the phone call and meeting. What it came down to, was the fact that the Attorney and their client were needing an Expert Witness. I have set up the appointment … (28 comments)
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vermont real estate: As A FSBO-Top Ten Reasons to Love Selling Your Own Home - 01/01/10 09:55 PM
As A FSBO-Top Ten Reasons to Love Selling Your Own Home, as a For Sale By Owner, there are two main questions to ask yourself, and take some time to think about. Before you put your home up for sale!
Do you really have the time, that it takes to sale your home?
Are you really able to market your home, where 100's of folks know your home is for sale?
A Home Energy Audit, could very will help you sale your home!
Having a For Sale By Ower Home Inspection, sure can give you an edge selling your … (22 comments)
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vermont real estate: Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 4 of 12 GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS - 12/06/09 12:23 AM
Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 4 of 12 GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS, Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting, would like to ask folks alover America to think about Prevention, Detection, and Escape this Holiday Season, and throughout the year, to avoid having or survive a fire in your home. If affer your very best efforts, if you and your family should end up having a fire, being able to Detect a fire early will help improve your family's ability to safely Escape your home.
When using a live Christmas Tree, … (17 comments)
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vermont real estate: Fun in New Hampshire, Visiting MT. Kearsarge Indian Museum on Pow Wow Day's in Warner P-1(Baker Home Inspection and Consulting) - 11/21/09 01:54 PM
Fun in New Hampshire, Visiting MT. Kearsarge Indian Museum on Pow Wow Day's in Warner P-1 (Baker Home Inspection and Consulting)
Lets talk a little about Pow Wow Etiquette when visiting a Pow Wow.
You will see benches in or just outside the dance arena. These benches are reserved for the dancers. When a dancer has reserve a space on the bench they place a blanket in that space before the dance begins. The Master of Ceremonies will announce who is to dance. Always show respect to the flag and honor songs … (24 comments)
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vermont real estate: Baker's Blogging Homestead is written To Enhance Customer Relationships - 11/05/09 10:07 PM
Baker's Blogging Homestead is written To Enhance Customer Relationships, Mr. ActiveRain Bob Stewart, layed down another fine Challenge to all the members of the ActiveRain Real Estate Networking community. To write a blog post on just how we Enhance our Relationships with our Existing and New Clients with our blog writing in the ActiveRain community.
Back when I first joined the community, I had not ever read a blog. Now not only do I read and learn from visiting other members blog posts, I've also had alot of fun writing over 600 blog posts to help others to learn, whether … (21 comments)
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vermont real estate: Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic - 11/03/09 10:49 PM
Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic, Fats, Oils, and Greases are not just bad for your arteries and waistline, these things are also very bad for your private Septic System or public Sewer System. A Septic or Sewer System a overflow or backup can cause health hazards, damage home interiors, and can very will threaten the environment. An increasingly common cause of overflows is sewer pipes being blocked by grease. Grease gets into the sewer from household drains as will as from poorly maintained grease traps in restaurants and other businesses.
Just where … (24 comments)
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vermont real estate: A Safe Water Supply - 10/28/09 03:41 AM
A Safe Water Supply, a safe water supply sure is critical to protecting publie health, is the first obligation of all water suppliers. Without the modern water systems, diseases such as cholera and dysentery would be part of our everyday life.
In the United States, water utilities are monitored for more than 100 contaminanta and must meet close to 90 regulations for water safety and quality. Those water standards are among the world's most stringent. A Safe Water Supply, States usual also require utilities to meet additional standards. Community water supplies are tested evey day. Tap water undergoes far … (14 comments)
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vermont real estate: Hydrant Flushing in Cavendish Vermont - 10/25/09 06:48 PM
Hydrant Flushing in Cavendish Vermont, Monday 26 October through Wednesday 28 October 2009, during the hours 9:00 A.M. to 5 P.M. the Cavendish Municipal Water System, will be do-en the Town's Fall Hydrant Flushing.
The Cavendish Municipal Water System, would like to remind the system users that Hydrant Flushing may cause temporary discoloration and turbidity of the water. This very important system maintenanance procedure is something that needs to be conducted each Fall and Spring. The flushing program allows the pipes to be purged and the hydrants checked for proper operation.
Hydrant Flushing in Cavendish … (5 comments)
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vermont real estate: Real Estate Agents Do You Recommend To Your Clients? I sure hope you do! - 10/24/09 06:07 AM
Real Estate Agents Do You Recommend To Your Clients? I sure hope you do! To have a Mold Inspection and test? What I'm about to to talk with y'all about, could very will be a Halloween nightmare story for a movie.
This here story took place in a home in Greenville, North Carolina. The home had a bookcase with a hidden room behind it, the room had a dark and terrifen secret, along with a note. Seen that one of your buyer clients, may just pick one of Fannie Mae's foreclosed on home. You'll sure want to know about … (12 comments)
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vermont real estate: The First Little Pig had a Straw Home - 10/18/09 10:14 PM
The First Little Pig had a a Straw Home, that there first little pig, should have had a Home Inspection. Then the big bad wofe would not been able to blow his home down. Folks in Aermica, first started build-en homes with Straw Bales, back in the 1800's. There are folks now a days, that are using the technique to build their home. Did you know theres enough Straw growen in Aermica, to build a half million homes every year. And you very will could save 75 % on heating your home of Steaw Bales.
Straw Bales walls also … (20 comments)
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vermont real estate: Engineered Wood I-Beams Exposed to Fire Part one - 10/18/09 11:31 AM
Engineered Wood I-Beams Exposed to Fire Part one, a engineered wood I-beam is a structural component of top and bottom flanges, which could be solid or laminated wood, united with a plywood or Oriented Strand Board web of various depths separating them. Engineered wood I-beams are primarily used for floor systems but can also be found in some roof applications. You'll find they are manufactured up to sixth feet in length for applications where folks desire an open floor space area. The cross section resembles the same shape of a steel I-beam, which is how its name came about.
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vermont real estate: Engineered Wood I-Beams Exposed to Fire Part two - 10/18/09 08:37 AM
Engineered Wood I-Beams Exposed to Fire Part two, new construction, nearly half of all new residential construction utilize engineered wood I-beams, these and other truss floor components are the norm for wood construction. Residential buildings built after 1990 are suspect for haven engineered wood I-beams or some type of truss floor system.
The hazards and risks of engineered wood I-beams is they burn rapidly due to a very high surface to mass ratio characteristic of kindling. Just like a common truss, the engineered wood I-beam substitute geometry for mass to support the intended load. Engineered wood I-Beams rely on … (8 comments)
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vermont real estate: My Blood is Boiling and I'm going to Take Them On - 10/16/09 09:34 PM
My Blood is Boiling and I'm going to Take Them On, you might be asken, what in the world is wrong? Seen that I'm a Vet, just as many other members of the ActiveRain community are. Receiving an E-Mail from a low life Scammer, claiming to be a Lt. Colonal in the U.S. Army, and stating that he is the Commander of the 1st. Battalion 63rd. Armor Regiment in Iraq. Is truely enough to royally pess this Vet off.
The Scammers of the world, operate in a number of different ways, but a Scammer always work on the emotions of folks. … (19 comments)
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vermont real estate: First Time Home Buyers did the home have any water intrusion into it - 10/13/09 11:45 PM
First Time Home Buyers did the home have any water intrusion into it, a having a Mold Inspection and Testing can help to know for sure. When your going to buy a new or a used home, you should think about also have a Mold Inspection. Here are some question you really should ask yourself, when your looking at homes on the market.
Was there any kind of musty smell in the home or other buildings? Was there at all any visible signs of water damage in any where in the home? Did the home have a wet basement? Did … (11 comments)
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vermont real estate: First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners Water Pipe Leaks and Mold - 10/12/09 03:53 AM
First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners Water Pipe Leaks and Mold, if your home has any water pipe leaks, Mold sure is going to love your home. Mold needs moisture in order to thrive and grow. Many of the mold problems folks have in their, originate from the result of some kind or intrusion by water, especially the ones that folks have not resolved quickly. Water and pipe leaks are very common culprits, seen they provid all the moisture, that mold needs and loves. And because most leaks are so often undetected for months, and sometimes even years if they … (6 comments)
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vermont real estate: First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners do you know about Relative Humidity - 10/11/09 11:21 PM
First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners do you know about Relative Humidity, Are you going to be liven in an area that has high Humidity, then your going to be on the look out for potential Mold problems. Did you know that outdoor Humidity affectes the indoor Humidity levels of a home and even commercial properties. This creats the perfect environment for toxic Mold growth.
If your home has a Relative Humidity level, thats greater than 55 percent promotes growth of Mold and other fungi. Even though Relative Humidity remains fairly consistent outdoors, its a different story for the … (5 comments)
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vermont real estate: Home Inspectors have a Heart that can Brake also - 10/10/09 12:19 PM
Home Inspectors have a Heart that can Brake also, we some times get a phone call, that just brake's our heart. Just like the one, that I received the other day. There was a very nice lady on the line, and she started telling me about her home, that she, her son, and her baby thats on the way live's in. She is need-en and want-en an Inspection and test-en done for Black Mold. I could hear in this poor lady's voice that she was really truely worried as she told me, that she believes her home has a major problem, … (13 comments)
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vermont real estate: First Time Home Buyers do you understand Your Real Estate Agent's language - 10/07/09 08:20 PM
First Time Home Buyers do you understand Your Real Estate Agent's language, as far as to the language your Agent is speaking. The language that any professional, like Contractors, Engineers, Builders, Lawyers, even some Home Inspectors. All these folks, can sound like they are speaking a foreign language at times. Real Estate terms sure can also be a bit confusing. Heres a a mini-glossary of the most common ones used, to help you out.
CMA: Comparable Market Analysis, a home evahuation based on properties that have sold in a neighborhood, that similar to the home and property your … (12 comments)
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vermont real estate: What is a Warranty Deed and Wording You can find in it, in New Hampshire! - 10/03/09 08:09 PM
What is a Warranty Deed and Wording You can find in it, in New Hampshire!, a General Warranty Deed from is used to convey an interest in real estate. The General Warranty Deed, is to help guatrantee that the title conveyed is good and its transfer is rightful. It includes a promise by the preson maken it (the Seller) that he or she, or both will defend the Grantee (the Buyer) from any and all claims of others. (I need to add, that it does not always) I'll explain why I made that statement at the end of this post. Heres … (7 comments)
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