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Home Inspector - Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - 3380-000723

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2010 

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This may not be the problem nation wide that it is here, but I suspect it is.  We have carpenter bees and infestations are common.  It seems they pick out a house in a neighborhood and go after it!  They look very much like bumble bees, but have a sharp hind end and when they fly they stay statio...
09/04/2010
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I got a call late last night from my Marine son saying that he had the weekend off and was coming up from Camp LeJeune for a visit.  He recently returned home from his latest visit overseas (third one), and we had not seen him since he got back.  Visits often happen on the spur of the moment like...
09/04/2010
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Usually from the outside of a house I can see that there is going to be a problem inside.  And often it is predictable where that problem, or THOSE PROBLEMS, might be! Well... Take this recent inspection on a flipped house. For some reason, unknown why, someone wanted to divert the water from the...
09/03/2010
A recent new construction walk through was scheduled intentionally a day before the final walk through with the builder.  My client had said they wanted to do our inspection after the final with the builder!  To that I said , "No, no, no!  You need them to include anything we find on the list of ...
09/03/2010
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Arriving at my new construction inspection I was met by the supervisor on the front porch.  We had met before on the pre-drywall inspection, so we recognized each other as I approached. Since it was a hard-hat zone, he was happy to see my hard hat on my head.  He said, "I brought you a hard hat, ...
09/01/2010
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An interesting email came the other day.  It was from a former client, for whom I had done an inspection four years ago.  His house at that time was only two years old.  All the window trim on the house was beginning to rot.  My comment at that time was that this was a lot of rot developing in on...
08/31/2010
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