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These rules may be covered in real estate training, but they never came up in my home inspection classes. I believe they apply equally to both agents and home inspectors. "Pretty nice place" I said as I began reviewing the home inspection report with my client. This had become a standard comment,...
10/09/2007
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Now that's a wrap! I said to my client, marveling at the cleanest, nicest job in attaching and sealing the house wrap material I had ever seen.This is an important topic that is often missed and misunderstood. Today's house wraps, the good ones, are a very important part of the comfort and durabi...
10/08/2007
"That ugly old thing, I completely forgot about that." My client said. I was just finishing up on my report for a Home Wellness Inspection and had mentioned a large ornate bowl I had run across in his attic. It appeared to have been there a long time and had multiple water rings in it. He told me...
10/07/2007
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What's an Arc!I'm smiling. The title "What's an Arc?" reminds me of Bill Cosby's "Noah!" Sorry, this isn't about the biblical boat or the famous comedian.Arcs are defined as the luminous discharge of electricity across an insulating medium. They are different from ground faults which pass through...
10/06/2007
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Murphy rides on my shoulder and tells me what fun he's having. Most of the time he doesn't bother me...just when he can cause some mischief.Like last week when I was studying an electrical panel and noticed a breaker labeled Sump Pump. That's funny I thought. I've been all over this basement and ...
10/04/2007
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He was proud that he, a complete electrical novice, had figured out how to run an electrical line for a dining room chandelier and it worked!  When he flipped the switch up the lights went on, down, the lights went and off. Later, his wife pointed out that if the switch for the exterior lights wa...
10/02/2007
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I think it's fantastic that some people live together for 30, 40, 50 or more years.  When they live together in the same place without moving, sometimes the rest of the real estate world passes their house by.  That was the case with this inspection and I've had quite a few like this where the cl...
10/02/2007
Nothing describes a common hazard to home inspectors better than this story, told to me by my daughter-in-law Ravit who has her Doctorate in Education Science.She describes a study of young adult students who were observed while watching a basketball game. During the action of the game, a man, dr...
09/30/2007
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His passion was restoring old cars and as I drove up to the old farm house on the hill, I saw several old 40ish clunkers in a field about 300 feet down the hill from the house.He needed electrical power for a sander and some other small tools so he improvised a sub panel on a stump down in the fi...
09/29/2007
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Some houses scream "Help Me!"...others give up their secrets quietly and reluctantly. After you have home inspected for a while, you learn the language and how to coax out what needs to be known.For agents, there are several signs that you can use to reinforce with your clients the use of a home ...
09/28/2007
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