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Real estate is a team sport - Boston.com (blog)

Google Home Inspector News - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 19:04

Real estate is a team sport
Boston.com (blog)
Depending upon whether you are the buyer or seller, a good team in a real estate transaction could consist of an agent, attorney, home inspector, contractors, exterminators, financial advisors and/or a professional stager.

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'Remove it from the community,' alderman says of drug house - Calgary Herald

Home inspectors - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 09:26

'Remove it from the community,' alderman says of drug house
Calgary Herald
Inspectors toured a Killarney drug house last week that was the site of a November homicide as the area's alderman said he hopes the property that has received complaints for years would be torn down. Representatives from police, bylaw, Alberta Health ...

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Home no safe haven for some tenants - Columbus Dispatch

wisconsin home spection - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 09:25

Columbus Dispatch

Home no safe haven for some tenants
Columbus Dispatch
Paul and Cheryl Harris scrambled last week to move out of this Franklinton rental house after the city ordered it vacated for lacking heat. Find statistics and facts from all Columbus homicides. Search for the crime statistics of any US city.

Clear Capital(R) Reports US Home Values Softening: Midwest Hit Hardest - MarketWatch (press release)

wisconsin home spection - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 05:02

Clear Capital(R) Reports US Home Values Softening: Midwest Hit Hardest
MarketWatch (press release)
Quarter-over-quarter home prices for the US declined 1.6%. -- The Midwest market lost its momentum and led the nation in quarterly losses. -- Remaining regions had little change quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year, with the West working hard on its ...

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Clear Capital(R) Reports US Home Values Softening: Midwest Hit Hardest - MarketWatch (press release)

Home inspections - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 05:02

Real Time News, India

Clear Capital(R) Reports US Home Values Softening: Midwest Hit Hardest
MarketWatch (press release)
Our products include appraisals, broker-price opinions, property condition inspections, value reconciliations, and home data indices. Clear Capital's combination of progressive technology, high caliber in-house staff and a well-trained network of more ...
US home prices post a disappointing start in JanuaryReal Time News, India

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Sprinklers Make A Difference - MyFox Washington DC

Home inspectors - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 04:41

Sprinklers Make A Difference
MyFox Washington DC
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. - Inspectors from the Fire Marshal's Office will be back at the Spellman House Apartments in College Park later this week to check on the fire alarm. It malfunctioned Saturday, putting residents at risk during a fire.

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Safety Vents Improperly Installed At Home For Elderly, Disabled - WOWT

Home inspections - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 03:27

Safety Vents Improperly Installed At Home For Elderly, Disabled
WOWT
City inspectors returned to 35th and Lake streets to inspect again because Fact Finders alerted them that many important safety devices might not work in the event of a fire. “These fire dampers here won't close, allowing the fire and smoke to spread ...

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Safety Vents Improperly Installed At Home For Elderly, Disabled - WOWT

Home inspectors - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 03:27

Safety Vents Improperly Installed At Home For Elderly, Disabled
WOWT
Channel 6 News Fact Finders alerted city inspectors and what they found was startling. City inspectors returned to 35th and Lake streets to inspect again because Fact Finders alerted them that many important safety devices might not work in the event ...

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Fight the Battle Against Hazardous Chinese Drywall with Handhelf XRF Analyzer - Azom.com

Home inspectors - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 00:12

Azom.com

Fight the Battle Against Hazardous Chinese Drywall with Handhelf XRF Analyzer
Azom.com
Thousands of homes contain drywall now suspected to be the source of these problems. The Oxford Instruments X-MET7000 handheld XRF analyzer being used for drywall inspection. Detecting strontium has been determined to be a good corollary to identifying ...

Building code changes will better protect new homes from mold, rot - Lincoln Journal Star

Home inspections - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 21:23

Building code changes will better protect new homes from mold, rot
Lincoln Journal Star
Several years ago, city building inspection staff began seeing serious mold and rot problems in fairly new homes. Mel Goddard, chief building inspector, has pictures of the ugly and expensive damage caused when water leaked in the walls of a 4-year-old ...

Don't Forget a Home Inspection with a New Construction Home - RisMedia.com (press release)

Home inspections - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 18:07

RisMedia.com (press release)

Don't Forget a Home Inspection with a New Construction Home
RisMedia.com (press release)
Unfortunately, many people who purchase new construction homes put a lot of trust in their builder and opt not to perform a home inspection. REALTORS® can help their clients take a proactive approach to identifying underlying problems in new homes by ...

Housing market continues to struggle - News Chief

Home inspections - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 13:23

Housing market continues to struggle
News Chief
"When the building just ceased here a few years back we had to look for something else to do," said Brock, owner of Pro-Home Inspections in Lakeland. He recalls working 80-hour weeks and foregoing weekends during the height of the building boom, ...

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Belmont College Workforce Development/Community Education Department announces ... - The Daily Jeffersonian

Home inspections - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 13:10

Belmont College Workforce Development/Community Education Department announces ...
The Daily Jeffersonian
The online offerings will include home inspection courses, as well as IRS (Internal Revenue Service) tax preparation courses. These classes are completely web-based and can be taken at the student's convenience, when and where they want.

Belmont College Workforce Development/Community Education Department announces ... - The Daily Jeffersonian

Home inspectors - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 13:10

Belmont College Workforce Development/Community Education Department announces ...
The Daily Jeffersonian
The online offerings will include home inspection courses, as well as IRS (Internal Revenue Service) tax preparation courses. These classes are completely web-based and can be taken at the student's convenience, when and where they want.

Marine wife killed in Ca. explosion was Iowan, 31 - Boston.com

Home inspections - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 12:28

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Marine wife killed in Ca. explosion was Iowan, 31
Boston.com
He said the housing complex has 11 open homes available for the families who cannot move back in. After safety inspections Saturday night, inspectors began testing the propane distribution system house-by-house for leaks or any other signs of trouble ...
Most families return after Calif. base explosionStars and Stripes

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TN Health department puts inspection reports of nursing homes online - The Tennessean

Home inspections - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 08:50

TN Health department puts inspection reports of nursing homes online
The Tennessean
Dipti Vaidya / File / The Tennessean With a prod from the federal government, the state Health Department has posted on its website thousands of pages of inspection reports on licensed nursing homes across the state. The posting marks the state's ...

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TN Health department puts inspection reports of nursing homes online - The Tennessean

Home inspectors - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 08:50

TN Health department puts inspection reports of nursing homes online
The Tennessean
Dipti Vaidya / File / The Tennessean With a prod from the federal government, the state Health Department has posted on its website thousands of pages of inspection reports on licensed nursing homes across the state. The posting marks the state's ...

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Homefix: Don't be a flake when it comes to shoveling snow off a roof - Sioux City Journal

Home inspectors - Sat, 02/04/2012 - 07:03

Homefix: Don't be a flake when it comes to shoveling snow off a roof
Sioux City Journal
The majority of homes I have inspected over the past 30 years have been constructed to withstand this type of added weight, normally close to 20 psf. You can hire a home inspector or a carpenter to check your attic and roof bracing to make sure it will ...

Ask the Inspector: Shingle fatigue - Leader-Telegram

Home inspectors - Sat, 02/04/2012 - 05:29

Ask the Inspector: Shingle fatigue
Leader-Telegram
This also tells me that whoever installed the shingles did not take out a permit because the municipality the home is in requires one for that type of roof work. Otherwise the building inspector would have made them strip the roof and start over again.

Ask the Inspector: Shingle fatigue - Leader-Telegram

Wisconsin home inspector - Sat, 02/04/2012 - 05:29

Ask the Inspector: Shingle fatigue
Leader-Telegram
Duerkop is a licensed home inspector and serves as president and education director of the Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors for the central and northern Wisconsin chapters. To submit a question to him, call 866-715-8222 or email ...

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