Maybe a Seinfeld Episode?     Many years ago when I first started doing inspections, I had the pleasure of inspecting a condo for my daughter and her soon to be husband. The marriage didn't last for a few good reasons but that's not what this story is about. They were buying unit one of a 4 unit condo. The complex was horseshoe shaped with a detached row of garages in the middle of the horseshoe. The seller was home. As I walked around the back by the gas meters, I could smell a strong natural gas smell at the meters. I used my gas leak detector and located the leak on meter number one. I told the seller he should call the gas company, NICOR, and ask them to send a repair man. I kept doing the inspection and eventually made my way to the detached garage and as I wrapped it up and walked... 03/26/2023

Congratulations Scott Seaton Jr. SLS Home Insp for earning your virtual gold in exchange for three outstanding entries for the March to a Solution|ActiveRain March 2023 Challenge. Scott has been servicing his community as a Home Inspector when he started his Company, SCS in Kankakee and Bourbonnais, IL. Before that, he spent 30+ years in lumber, contractor work, and in wholesale building materials. With so many valuable years in business, I wonder if he ever thinks about Kenny O'Dell's lyrics "Behind Closed Doors," sung originally by Charlie Rich? With all the doors Scott has opened, during home inspections, is he ever really surprised to meet termites during a home inspection? Or worse, revisit the same termites and discover Termite Swarms in the same dwelling because the owner refused... 03/26/2023