Image Description: (long drawn out snore...). 1980's-1990's Manufactured Home + Composite Panel of Any Type that Isn't Taken Care of + Belly Band with a 90 Degree Angle = Wood Decay... and usually lots of it. I am not against composite panel siding of any kind... I have Louisian Pacific siding
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02/10/2009
Image Description: though somewhat difficult to see with the picture, this patio is notably sloping towards this manufactured home. This would be somewhat of an issue of it was a standard residential structure, but water can get under a manufactured home a little more easily. As I came to find
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02/10/2009
"Thank you for your inspection of the house. Both Dan .. and I were impressed with your thoroughness and attention to detail (as well as explaining things in a way I could understand!). I gave out one of your business cards (had to keep one for myself!) at our ... meeting last night. If you co
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02/09/2009
Image Description: these people knew how to have fun at the home inspection. I joined in: this was the front page of their inspection report. Apparently they decided that if the buyer won he would only have to pay a 0.00001% commission. I can't remember who one. :)~ -- Justin Nickelsen, Nick
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02/09/2009
Image Description: in like manner to the missing fixture below... How could I fail to mention the animalistic aggression of foreclosed humanity: the broken doors, the holes in walls, and yes, the intentionally smashed stove top. Lovely. Wouldn't their energy have been better spent by simply tak
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02/09/2009
Image Description: I consider the "missing light" as a sort of iconcraphic representation of what my daily life is now as a home inspector. 9 out of ever 10 home inspections I perform are now vacant homes that have been foreclosed on (no, I am not exaggerating, I keep track). Over 90% of the
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02/09/2009
Image Description: the daily find: leaking water at traps under sinks (and in the crawl space). Like most inspectors, I used to run the water for a bit while I was checking a specific area of the home (kitchen, bathrooms, etc.). But about a year ago I started running the water at all locations
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02/08/2009
Image Description: his house, in Woodland, WA was inspected in 2005 and was built in the 1970's. From the outside, I noticed that the roof had a pretty notable depression in it, so when I went into the attic I was looking extra close for signs of why that may have happend. What you are seeing
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02/08/2009
Come September of this year, home inspector licensing comes to Washington State. Consumers and other real estate professionals wonder what this will do to the field of home inspection. I believe that, among other things, it will lead to a caste system for home inspectors in Washington State. My
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02/07/2009
Image Description: This is a house that I inspected on February 4, 2009 in Portland Oregon. You will note that the gutters are not sloping properly towards the downspouts (i.e., there is a "negative flow"). Water was pooling in this area, and you could tell that in heavier rains the water come
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02/06/2009
