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Wood destroying organisms like carpenter ants, certain types of beetles and wood rot are very commonly found during home inspections. Home inspectors will report on the presents of these organisms but we also report on conditions conducive to them. One of the most common conducive conditions th...
08/18/2008
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Home inspectors use different methods for report delivery. Some use the traditional method of typing, printing and delivering the report on-site. Some will type and print just a short summary of the major findings and email the rest of the report at a later time. Now we have enterd the "digita...
08/17/2008
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I was just browsing around blogs and noticed that there are 7,160 members online right now. Wow! Usually, when my eyes wander up to the top right, I see somewhere around 2,000 to 3,000 online. What's the most amount of members that you've seen online at once? "Be sure to check out my other blo...
08/15/2008
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Is your home inspector blind? If he's not a member of the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI), he might just be! Other home inspection associations have no entrance examination. Blind people, children, psychics (who claim to "sense" if a house is ok) and even pet...
08/12/2008
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I've seen many posts and comments educating and asking about posting videos to websites, blogs and emails. You can see my method for emails here. I'll discuss embedding to your website in this post. I'm a home inspector, not a video professional but I know how it works and I like to help. Vid...
08/10/2008
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Your inspector may or may not be required to have a minimun amount of insurance coverage. Some states have licensing requirements while others do not. Here in Washington, all inspectors are required to be licensed by the Washington State Department of Agriculture to be Structural Pest Inspector...
08/09/2008
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....perform any permit research for your clients? I've been at inspections where there's an obvious addition that wasn't permitted. A recent example was when I was walking on a garage roof and it felt soft, almost like it might give. I immediately scurried down my ladder and went to check the ...
08/07/2008
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I have a feature for agents that I work with and past clients called VidTips. It's basically a video newsletter with helpful information about owning a home. I thought about emailing the actual video, however, that leaves you with only two options. Either you attach the video to the email, whi...
08/05/2008
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I've read a couple posts on this site, and a few others, about real estate agents getting sued by their client because a home inspector missed something substantial and it was the agent that referred the inspector to their client. I've read that because of this many agents will adhere to the phi...
08/05/2008
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Hi everyone, I don't intend on using my blog on Active Rain for advertising purposes exclusively but I'm a new member and I wanted everyone to be aware of my very different inspection business. I'm so confident of my uniqueness that I'm willing to offer 50% off of an inspection if you can win th...
08/05/2008