Buying Next to a Landfill – No, I Am Not Kidding! - 02/23/07 04:47 PM

An investor recently had me looking over a gorgeous 84 acre piece property on the French Broad River with views of both the river and mountains in the background. The whole thing has already received permission for a 65 unit subdivision with sellers ready and eager to make a deal. One BIG problem though, the property is across the road from the county landfill. ( Don't even ask why the county chose to site this within spitting distance of the river!) So now I have to find out just how bad is this going to be. My first impression of the landfill … (18 comments)

A GREEN TEAM of Environmental Designers in Asheville - 02/14/07 01:42 PM
A GREEN TEAM of Environmental Designers in Asheville   
One company in our network of Green Professionals in Asheville area is a company called Equinox Environmental Consultation and Design. The people at Equinox really are a dedicated group of professionals that are capable of handling a wide variety of developments from small residential conservation easement subdivisions in urban areas to 1000+ acre multi-family developments. They have a diverse team of skilled people including the president of Equinox Andy Brown, an Environmental Land Planner and the vice president David Tuch, a Landscape and Environmental designer. The rest of the team is rounded out … (13 comments)

Home Inspections and Home Repairs - My Wish List and To Do List - 02/02/07 08:44 PM
 Ok, now that I vented on the Good, the Bad , and the Ugly of Home Repairs here is my Wish List for how I would like things to be one day:
I wish that Home Inspectors would adjust the size of the pictures they are taking in accordance to the severity of the problem they have found.  For example loose electrical wall plate - little picture, damaged sub flooring big picture. All the images are digital, it can't be that hard! And for those who say, "Who's to decide what is a minor or big problem", I say that I wish … (3 comments)

Home Repairs – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - 02/01/07 06:55 PM

I recently did a search on Active Rain for Home Repairs and Home Inspections issues and was not surprised to find over 60 blogs about this issue. My concern about home inspections and repairs is about the entire process itself. My experience has been that purchase price negotiations are the easy part of the equation. After we have the Offer to Purchase Contract done, the real drama often begins. In North Carolina we use the Residential Property Disclosure Form that sellers fill out indicating any known problems with a structure. A seller can respond in a way that indicates there are problems/no … (26 comments)

 

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