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Real Estate News and Questions
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I know you think that is too personal a problem to share on line, but your probably thinking about the wrong kind of gas.
Testing for a gas leak is sometimes a tricky business. (Are you thinking about a different kind of gas now?) Some gases found in the home can
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I've been absent from the Rain much too long. Almost forgot how, well not really.Just suffice to say that I am back to my not so normal self and back in the Rain.
Subject of the day is CO detectors and their placement. According Wikipedia carbon monoxide is a colorless,
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In my first blog concerning sprinkler systems I tried to dispel some of the myths that have come to seem like truth. Sprinkler systems have come to be known to save lives and property in businesses all over the country and yet they are frowned upon in residential buildings. Looking
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What happens if you have a fire in your home? The first thing that happens (hopefully) is your smoke alarms/detectors sound with that annoying alarm that occurs every time I broil meat. The next thing that happens is you evacuate the house or in some cases look for the fire
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Thought I would put these up before we got more snow tomarrow and I don't venture outside at all. Our local gov't. decided that they would save some money not salting or scraping the roads untill all the snow fell. Not sure if that means April or what.
As you can
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I just hate it. It's snowing (3") and I get a call. Yes it is Sunday, yes I'm doing something other than work, but that doesn't matter. I tell all my clients that they can call me anytime (sometimes I'm not very bright), anytime at all. Clients don't call very often,
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When I was younger I had an Uncle that thought that a clothes hanger was the ultimate tool, the answer to everything that was broken. Later on that Uncle discovered duct tape and this took the load off my aunts supply of clothes hangers. Even later in life he discovered flex-duct
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"I don't understand why a home inspection costs so much?" I hear this so often that I want to record a response and play it back. Numerous times I have listed costs that are required (yes required) for a good inspector to perform just one inspection. For a short time (when
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Anyone who has looked at my website knows that I give either free or almost free inspections to returning service men and women.
With this in mind I want to say that I lost an inspection job today for one of our returning vets because of my price. Meeting all
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This time of year is usually slow for Real Estate inspections. So every year I try to plan all that I am going to do around the holidays. Of course, I really don't know what business will be like 2 or 3 months in advance when I start this list, so
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Something new to check isn't what an inspector wants to hear. When I inspect a bath I look at dozens of things:
Flush (numerous times)and run water in all fixtures.I try to tax the drainas much as possible tomirror home usage.
Checkflooring and walls, window, fan, lights, switches, outlets, and even
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