As a Pensacola real estate agent, I always recommend home inspections for my buyers (and sellers too). Most homes have the typical issues that agents and inspectors see often enough, but sometimes unusual "modifications" are encountered. And rednecks are especially good at creative modifications.
Many people don't think of Florida as having a lot of rednecks, but Pensacola is often jokingly referred to as LA (Lower Alabama). In fact, just recently Pensacola home inspector Jim Ellis discovered some true redneck ingenuity in a home he was hired to inspect. Here are Jim's remarks, and a couple of pictures he snapped at this home:
"My inspection this morning had some handy man work done. Just as an example someone ran the cables from 2 Dish satellites through the top of a plumbing drain waste vent, made a hole in the pipe into the attic and had it exit to the bedrooms for TV! Certainly no short term problems here, but, possible water leaks, slow plumbing drain and odors in the attic could occur"
Jim writes a blog on the Active Rain network. If you want stories and info about home inspections, visit Jim's blog at http://activerain.com/blogs/shamus
And I couldn't pass up adding this beauty from my favorite bad MLS photo guy Athol Kay.
How can you really call yourself a redneck if you don't have a clothes line running across your kitchen. Yes, this picture was actually posted on an MLS somewhere. Thanks Athol.
If you want a bunch of great laughs, visit Athol's bad MLS photo of the day site at http://www.reagentinct.com/category/bad-mls-photo-of-the-day/
If any Pensacola rednecks are offended by this post, please understand something. I grew up on the west side of Pensacola which was redneckville at the time. We were all neighbors. So keep up the ingenuity my redneck brothers. Just beware of the home inspector!
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