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Although most homes in SW Florida are built on concrete slabs, our most historic homes are frame built with crawl spaces. In the SW Florida crawl space we contend with spiders, bugs-BIG ones, rodents, snakes etc. so a tyvex suit and respirator is necessary. Troy Pappas has put together a great vi...
07/10/2011
SOS: If anyone knows of a good homeowners insurance that still writes in Lee County contact me please.....I took on the task of securing a homeowners and flood policy for my neice (she's purchasing her first home). I thought this would take all of about 15 minutes. A quick check online, a call to...
07/06/2011
Once again the Chamber of Commerce of Cape Coral will host the RE/MAX Realty Team, City of Cape Coral Red, White and Boom on July 4. The party kicks off at 4:00pm to 10:pm ending with a fantastic fireworks display scheduled to start at 9:30pm. Park and ride for free! The Boom Trolley wil be provi...
07/01/2011
SW Florida in the summertime the water coming out of the faucets is hot hot hot. It's just plain hot outside and if you have overhead plumbing the water in those pipes is in the attic baking, so it takes a long time to get cold water out of the faucet. Sometimes, the cold and hot water are revers...
07/01/2011
Home Inspectors can't catch every possible problem during a home inspection. Reuben Saltzman of Structure Tech Home Inspections in Maple Grove MN missed this bath tub leak year ago and explains how to test a bath tub overflow. This only aplies if you have an access panel. I don't see too many acc...
07/01/2011
This is such a simple suggestion and so heartfelt, I just had ro re-blog. Gwynn suggests we simply recognize a good post. I try to "suggest" when I read something that really hits me, and this post did just that. Sometimes I get so busy reading and posting I don't think to "suggest" a post for fe...
06/24/2011
You wouldn't think a little guy like this could be worth $788,000., but the City of Cape Coral, and many other surrounding cities are paying this and more for the protection of the Scrub Jay! The City of Cape Coral voted to spend $788,000. of General Fund dollars to protect the Scrub Jay. Named S...
06/05/2011
Home inspectors have differing opinions about the subject of what to report. I feel inspector's are hired to report everything they see and compile the information in an easy to read report distinguishing the big from the little. Charles Buell points out a little problem in his Wordless Wednesday...
05/27/2011
A/C problems are commonplace in Florida. Hey, we use them 365 days a year and in the summer, they really get a work out! The flexible duct work is very fragile, and is usually covered up with piles of blown insulation. What I typically see is a crushed duct from being stepped on by an unsuspectin...
05/27/2011
I don't like to give my blog time to a murderer and refuse to print his name, but everyone reading this knows who I speak of. Tonight I was watching The Apprentice when a crawler came across the screen that the President was going to speak. 10:35pm on a Sunday?  I figured it was big news. The new...
05/01/2011
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