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Surviving the Home Inspection is now available as an audiobook. To celebrate, I am giving away FIVE free copies through Audible.com.I've written this to be accessible and informative for your clients. The heart of the book are more than a dozen checklists to guide the sellers to a successful expe...
08/31/2015
My newest book, Surviving the Home Inspection: The Essential Seller's Guide, shot to #1 in the Kindle Home Buying and Selling category this weekend. Right now, it's still in the top 10, which is enormously gratifying. Designed to help the seller get ahead of the inspection process and reduce th...
03/30/2015
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Congratulations! You have an offer on your home and the inspection date and time have been set. Now, let’s try to make this work as easily as possible for everyone and have an inspection process that helps you get to a successful closing. First, let’s take care of some basic maintenance issue...
07/11/2012
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Last week I did an inspection for a client who was in the process of having a new home built. Rather than a typical home inspection, it was focusing on specific code issues that he was worried about. He was right that there were issues and, as I wrote the report over the weekend, I documented th...
05/08/2012
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Is Your Building ADA Compliant....? There is an interesting little fact about the American with Disabilities Act that should worry any commercial property owner. The ADA permits disabled individuals to help enforce the ADA by suing you. You will probably never have met the person. Occasionally,la...
05/06/2012
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Have Code Books – Will Travel Tomorrow I hit the road for a 4 hour drive to Colville Washington for an inspection. It’s the third longest commute I’ve had since I started my business but for some clients going the extra mile is worth it. The futhest was for a client I had already done two loca...
05/03/2012
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One of the hobbies that I have developed in the last couple of years is gardening which sounds awfully mundane and fuddy-duddy-ish. It probably is but I'm balancing it out by learning to kayak. The rules for my garden are simple: anything I plant must be edible and I don't weed. That's pretty m...
05/01/2012
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The image of the old model of senior citizens finishing their lives in nursing homes or extended care facilities has never truly been accurate for the retirement years of most seniors. Just under 7% of seniors are in nursing homes. The remainder are either still in their own homes were livin...
04/30/2012
We’re Not Getting Any Younger Darlene, my neighbor, still gardens and has the prettiest roses on our block. She is backing to walking to and from the United Methodist Church just down the block which is a major step for her. She had her hip replaced this past year, a serious issue for someone ...
04/24/2012
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Maybe it is just me but does it strike anybody else as odd that so many sellers shot themselves in the foot after they get an accepted offer?I can't count the number of times I've had buyers suddenly start questioning their decision when the seller leaves the home thrashed after it was immaculate...
04/16/2012