Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner     You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 521 Laptop's are not meant to BBQ your stakes on!   Electric Receptacles - That were found through out in a home. There should have been three-pronged electric receptacles and not two-pronged. Two-pronged electric receptacles, are considered to be unsafe by today's standards and sure do limit the ablilty to use appliances that require a ground in those rooms. Here are some examples of appliances that require grounded receptacles. Computer hardware Refrigerators Freezers Clolthes washers Clothes dryers Window Air conditioners Dishwashers Kitchen food waste disposers Sump pumps Electrica... 06/16/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit!   Post 520 As of yesterday, Sunday the 14 of June 2009 There is a new name and photo in the number one spot on the New Hampshire ActiveRain Main Page.   Will this here person joined the ActiveRain Real Estate Networking community, back in 2007 Thats when the ActiveRain ladder climbing started for someone that had never read or wrote a blog before in their life. Had no idea at all where or how to get start in blogging, a real newbie you sure could say. This Here person made their share of mistakes. Like in the first few months they wented around maken comments to folks, with out knowen you need to write ten words in the comment made. Post some of their posts in the wrong groups. And got called on it. Will... 06/15/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner     You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does! Post 519 Come one come all, to the Wells, Water Quality and Rocks program at Shedd Porter Library, in Alstead on Thursday the 18 of June.   Just where does your drinking water come from? Just what are potential sources of drinking water contamination? How can folks protect their well or spring from drying up? Your drinking water system is very critical to the health of your family, students in their schools, employees at their jobs, your friends that come to your home to visit. Come to this discussion and learn more about the intricate relationships between bedrock, soil, groundwater, surface... 06/14/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner     You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does! Post 518   The Grand State of Missouri has a lot of really fine History and places to visit. Higginsville was founded in 1869 by Harvey Higgins which the Town was named after. In the Town of Higginsville, you'll find a 135 acre memorial park. I spent a lot of hours at this here park. When you go to visit, you can spend many hours wandering through the 135 acre memorial park, it sure does have a lot of outdoor activities to enjoy. You can take your time strolling through the paark, you find some good fishing for Bass, Catfish, Blue Gills, and others, in the many small lakes, or you and your fa... 06/14/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner     You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 517 As a First Time Home Buyer, you'll want to setup a general home maintenance schedule. This is a must to keep your home in tip-top shape. Doing preventative maintenance can help you to avoid major and expensive repairs later on. Here are just a few suggestions for you.   January - clean the condenser coils beneath or behind your refrigerator so it will cool more more efficiently. February - inspect the grout and caulking around sinks, bathtubs and showers. Repair or replace any and all damaged areas. March - replace the batteries and test your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Ap... 06/14/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner     You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 515   I'm a proud member of the NRA   I got a disturbing e-mail from the NRA, stating that the State of New Hampshire Legislature has a Bill before the House. Wanting to hike the license to carry fees for out of State visiters by 500%.   Do they not understand that something like that, could very will get some folks to consider not to visit the State of New Hampshire.The Bill is (House Bill 2). Just what will the New Hampshire Legislatures want to Hike next on folks living or visiting. This is just not right. Even if you do not live here. Let our Governor of New Hampshire and the Legis... 06/13/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner     You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!    Post 514   The Claremont Middle School fall athletic parents meeting: Theres going to be a meeting for the Claremont Middle School Parents who's kids are involved with fall athletics on Monday the 15 of June, at 6:00 P.M. at the Claremont Middle School.   This here meeting is for any parents that have students that will be going into the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. The Claremont Middle School fall athletics are boys and girls sixth, through eighth grade that like to play soccer, field hockey for the same grades, footboll for seventh through eighth, and spirit team for sixth through ... 06/12/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!     Post 513       Residents of Claremont, New Hampshire and residents of neighboring towns. If your wondering about something to do on Sunday the 14 of June or even on Monday the 15 of June 2009.   Why not go out and join others for Spirits of Claremont Cemetery Walks! Spirits of Claremont Old Village Cemetery will be taken place once agin this year. These walks will be taken place this coming Sunday and Monday.   Where do you say? On Broad Street, behind the Fiske Free Library. This here event is 100& Free, to the public. Just think you can learn a bit, and get yourself a fine walk work out. ... 06/11/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 512   Do you and your family have a plan in case of an Emergency, should come along?    The likelihood that you and your family will survive a home fire, really depends just as much on haven a worken smoke detector in your home, and haven a planed out exit strategy, as much as haven a well-trained Fire Department. The same holds true for you and your family to suriving any other emergerct, such as a terrorist attack. We all must have the tools and plans in place to make it on our own, for at least for a period of time, no matter where we may be if a disaster should strike. So just like h... 06/10/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!     Post 510         The Claremont, New Hampshire History Museum will be showcasing memorabilia   Claremont History Museum will be doing something a bit different this year. They plan to open on Alumni Day, the 13 of June. From noon until 3:00 P.M. They will have a special display of Stevens and St. Mary memorabilia from their collection. If there is anyone out there, that has some SHS or St. Mary memorabilia, and would like to let the Museum use it. They ask that you to please bring it by on the 13 of June. The Claremont History Museum, is also going to be holding a yard sale as a fundraiser. ... 06/09/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 509   Claremont residents and business, the Senior Center is looking for our help with baked goods!   They are seeking donations of baked goods to sale at the alumni parade, on Saturday the 13 of June at broad Street Park. They ask that we bring our donations to the canopied booth at the park, facing the public parking lot. Don't you think we all can give the Senior Center a helping hand! It really won't that much time to bake some cookies, maybe a few cup cakes,Brownies, or even a cake or two. For them to have to sale. What do you residents and business of Claremont? Lets see a showing ... 06/07/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 507   The special residences of this Charlestown special housing project, can thank a young man in the Boy Scout's by the name of Patrick. That picked doing this project as his Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project. He was granted permission last Wednesday night to build three different bat houses on town property for this project. He will be placeing two bat sanctuaries on Patch Park proerty and another on the Charlestown Treatment Plant property. Patrick explained to the selectman's, that the bat houses will help get rid of mosquitoes and they will fit in nicely with ecology of the tw... 06/06/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 502   This Saturday the 6 of June- The Newport Recreation Department will be holding its annual Fishing Derby and Bike Rodeo. The gets start at 8:00 A.M. aoes to 10:30 A.M. at Meadow Park. There will be various prizes awarded to children. Fishing is open to all ages. At the bike rodeo Outspokin will do bike tune-ups and there will be a bicycle safty course. There will be free helmets available to those in need of one, on a first-come, first served basis. Other prizes will also be awarded. The rodeo is sponsored by the Newport Police Department, Outspokin and rhe Newport Explorers Post. C... 06/04/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 499   The Charlestown Police Departmet- Will be once again participating in our County-wide DWI Enforcement Patrol and Speed Enforcement Patrol throughout the summer months this year. Now if you've been drinking you sure don't want to drive. If you're speeding you really need to slow down. I don't know about you, but I sure can't afford the fines, that go along with speeding, or the loss of license and increased insurance rates. And your family sure can't afford the loss of your life that can very will accompanies such actions. Lets all give the Charlestown Police Department, less to do ... 05/31/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 497   The citizens of Charlestown, New Hampshire enjoy monitoring the arrival of the Ruby Throated Hummingbird. We even have a Hot Line to call when we see them!   It sure does seem their time here is so short.   With this here unusual weather we have been a haven, 80 degrees one day and then a frost warning the very next. It sure was difficult to even make a guess as to when the hummingbirds would arrive in town. But to the surprise, of the folks here, this year's first reported hummingbird sighting came in at the end of April. Most folks had not even gotten their hummingbird feeders ou... 05/31/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 496   Your going to want to inter the 23 of June on your calendar , to go to the Forest Hill Cemetery Walk!   The Charlestown Historical Society will present, Voices of the Paet in the Forest Hill Cemetery, on East Street, on 23 June 2009, at 6:30 P.M. This is the fourth year of this popular event. To introduces townsfolks portraying villagers from Charlestown's past. They dress in period clothing, these earlier neighbors tell of their lives and times, it sure does make the history of our community come alive. Meeting them sure is quite a treat. Coming back for a second visit, by request... 05/30/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 495   There sure were some sillier Taxes in Colonial days!   Lets take for example the English Hearth tax that forced folks to pay two shillings for every fire hearth in their home.This here unpopulat tax was in force from 1662 to 1689. Now remember this was an era when folks cooked and keeped their homes warm, with the hearths in their homes.                       Now how about this one.   The window tax in 1696. Homeowners and folks that occupied a home by renting it. Had to pay a tax of one shilling for the first window in the home. This here tax increased for every additional window ... 05/30/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit   Post 494   The Phone Call nor E-Mail that never came!     How would a client of yours feel if, you have told them that you would call or e-mail them. To let them know some info.  And then you never fallowed through with said phone call or e-mail ?   Will that exact thing just happen to myself. On Wed. late afternoon, when ActiveRain was not leting folks make comments or write and post, blog posts to our blogs and to groups. Just everyone else here in the ActiveRain Real Estate Network community. I sure did not know what was going on. So I called AR to find out why we could not do these things, we all come here with happy hearts to do. Post info to help the public and the other members of the community t... 05/29/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 493   Its the night of 27 May 2009 10:03 P.M. in New Hampshire and Vermont.   For myself this all started right around 4:00 P.M., it has not at all been a fun time. I had found a link on a post was not worken right. So I went in to the post to fix it. When I clicked on edit, heres what I got.   So when the happen, I went to write some comments to folks. Will low and behold. Sure could not write any comments either. As you can see, the post did not open, so I could edited!   Home : Dale Baker,Top Home and Commercial Properties Inspector- in NH & VT : Welcome to Baker Home Inspection and C... 05/27/2009

  Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 492         Here are some steps First Time Home Buyers, should know about the homebuying process!   1. Prepare for homownership - Decide if you should rent or buy, by carefully weighing the pros and cons of homeownership and your current situation. Attend a home buyers education class and even individual counseling sessions. 2. Determine just how much you can really afford to spend -  Prepare a realistic spending plan that includes all of your monthly obligations and regular expenses. And besure to stick to it. 3. Get pre-approved for a home loan -Visit a local lender and apply for a ho... 05/26/2009