What I learned In School Today by Bobby T
This post was inspired by Myrl Jeffcoat who commented on my last post, asking how Broker School is going.
Today was a definite school day for me. While I only spent 2 hours in the classroom today (virtual classroom) I also spent an hour with my representative from Home Warranty, whom I strongly recommend, and I spent some time at my 9 year old sons school for his orientation and then at my 11 year old daughters school for her orientation.
ND requires 60 hours of class prior to being able take the Brokers exam and yet there is no place in ND or anywhere else that I am aware of to get those 60 hours in other the on-line. This is really so much fun trying to learn to study again after nearly half a decade.. trying to put ones life back together again after the flood.. while working.. while living in my mother-in-laws basement.
(OK break out the violins).
I am enrolled in Cooke School and actually it is going very well and I am enjoying the course.
Very fittingly today's lesson included disclosure and environmental hazards. Listen up East Coast Realtors! I highly recommend you check your State guidelines for reporting if/that a home has been flooded and if there is evidence that the seller can prove they have taken appropriate measures to stop mold in that home. Here is my personal example:
I, Robert L. Timm, have never been happy with the stucco on my home. I think it makes it cold and I don't like the maintenance. I saw the flood we experienced as an opportunity to have the stucco removed. Everyone, including my contractor told me not to remove the stucco. Actually my contractor begged me not to make him remove it. I was assured by him and several other "experts" that with all the materials removed from inside the house down to the boards supporting the stucco that it would dry out just fine. Well, I'm stubborn and I did not like the stucco so off it went. My contractor immediately started singing a different tune, he was amazed at the moisture between the cement ant the wood walls supporting it. Over and over he has now repeated that it is a really good thing we removed the stucco.
Between the school lesson and the "life lesson" I learned that if I am showing a Buyer a stucco house that has been in the flood I will disclose that there may be a very serious health hazard in that house for he and his loved ones. There is going to be a whole lot to disclose due to our flood as well as what you on the East Coast have just experienced.
I also learned something (that I already knew) from my 9 year old sons orientation day. The generosity of others in times of trouble is nearly endless. Each "flood family", and about 80% of us that have children at this school qualify, were given a large box of groceries and the children were given a new backpack filled with school supplies. At my 11 year old daughters school the company who takes the school pictures, Lifetouch, had a package for every child of last years portraits in case families had lost them in the flood.
Today was a school day. Many lessons were learned.
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