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Seller Home Inspection Tips

Nov. 13, 2007

Categorized in: Columbus Real Estate

Tagged with: home inspection

Seller you got the offer on your house, you negotiated the terms of the contract and are headed for a closing! Yeah, go team go!

.... once you get through the buyers home inspection (s.)

On ActiveRain, a real estate network, Steve Radabaugh of Preferred Property Inspections, a Central Ohio home inspector offered some tips on how to get your house ready for a home inspection. Lets get those homes ready for inspections

Home inspections are different in a buyers market. Or maybe home inspections are exactly the same, the buyers are different. The buyers have the upper hand now.

No matter what the market (whether it is a buyers market or sellers market) the contract gives the buyer rights to inpect the property so give the buyer and their home inspector access to thoroughly inspect the home or the buyer may call the contract null and void per the terms in the contract.

Home inspectors will usually not remove the sellers personal property to gain access to a crawl space, attic, mechanical system etc. Really it's common sense, clean out the closet with the attic access remove anything stored around the furnace.

More about home inspection:

I like home inspectors with small shoulders

"Free Home Inspection"

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"Free Home Inspection"

Nov. 9, 2007

Categorized in: Columbus Real Estate

Tagged with: activerain, central ohio, columbus ohio, home inspection

I noticed an ad on the ActiveRain real estate network for "Free Home Inspection" a couple of days ago. Can home inspectors afford to do home inspections for free?

How?

BOGO? (it's a shoe thing... but shouldn't it be BOGOF?) Buy One Get One Free.

ActiveRain Sponsors

Free Home Inspection

Logo

614-XXX-XXXX
Central Ohio Inspections

Find out Here <- a broken link

I clicked on the link and went to a page that says

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Please try the following:

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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah we've all seen these before…

I found the company, the home inspector is a new member on ActiveRain, Steve Radabaugh of Preferred Property Inspection.

I sent Steve an email saying the link in the ad is not working. I wondered if his website was overwhelmed with traffic or just a bad link. Intrigued I had to look further… here's the Free Home Inspection Offer on Steve's website - Free Home Inspection The rest of the story! I don't know Steve., so I am not recommending Steve… (just because I don't know him) just bringing this offer to your attention. It seems to be a monthly offer.

It turned out the ActiveRain just had a bad link!

The ad is eye catching. "Free"

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Ghosting Doors

Nov. 8, 2007

Categorized in: Columbus Real Estate

Tagged with: central ohio, columbus ohio, home inspection

Quantum, a Dublin home inspection / appraisal company that I am not familiar with has me on a mailing list for an eNewsletter. I often just delete it because I get such a high volume of email:

The title of one feature "Ghosting Doors?" caught my eye. The tip in the home inspection eNewsletter is:

"Do your hinged interior doors "ghost" from the open position towards the closed? If your foundation is level, one thing you might try is to remove the hinge pins and bend or bow them SLIGHTLY in the middle. The additional friction might help keep the door from opening or closing on its own."

So that's what "ghosting doors" means. I had never knew it had a name. My bedroom closet as a kid did that. It scared the _ _ _ _ out of me.

That tip is from a newsletter from Quantum:

Quantum Company - Appraisals and Inspections
123 South High St.
Dublin, OH 43017
614-336-3590
614-439-0793

I have had no experience with this company so can not recommend them but do want to give them credit for the info from their newsletter, I may someday run into them and be able to recommend them.

I have monthly home maintenance tips on my website. Now appearing ...November Home Maintenance Tips. Of course if you visit in December you'll see December Home Maintenance Tips!

The Inspections page on my website has a list of home inspectors I recommend to clients. I can recommend them because I have worked with them.... gee I wish they sent me clever home maintenance tips to share...

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Home Inspectors are not licensed in Ohio

May. 13, 2007

Categorized in: Columbus Real Estate

Tagged with: columbus ohio, home inspection, inspectors

Previously on Columbus Best Blog which is now Discover Columbus .... Jan. 23, 2006 - How to pick a home inspector ... it's sad when links die... there is a dead link to the OAR (Ohio Association of REALTORS®) article about licensing home inspectors. Seventeen months and still we don't have licensing of home inspectors in our state.

As I recall the broken link is to a history of how long legislation of licensing of home inspectors had taken.

Most of the article is about not using a home inspector recommended by anyone in the housing industry... with the idea that there is a conflict of interest, if your real estate agent recommends a good inspector. Maybe the reporter is caught back in the early 90's when everyone licensed to sell real estate in the transaction represented the seller...

of course the buyer was the home inspector client.

It's a good thing when the home inspector kills the deal. That seldom happens deals go down over buyers's remorse and jitters related to the inspection.. but it is a wonderful thing when a good inspector saves a consumer from making a mistake.

I am looking for guest bloggers... for both of my blogs including a home inspector who can write to consumers about the subject. Want to learn to blog (write on a website...that's all it is) and you are a home inspector... join us on Active Rain. Learn to blog.

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