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What to Expect During a FEMA Home Inspection
RealEstateRama (press release)
CHICAGO, IL – May 20, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — Inspectors from FEMA have begun meeting with disaster applicants in McHenry, Lake, DeKalb, Kane, DuPage, Cook, LaSalle, Kendall, Will, Grundy and Fulton counties. Inspectors are reviewing damage ...

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San Francisco Chronicle
Sound Off: How do I find a home inspector?
San Francisco Chronicle
We ask our buyers to be present at their home inspection, because this is a great chance to really learn about what you are buying. Home inspectors point out areas of concern, and make suggestions about areas of ongoing maintenance. A home inspector ...

Prairie Village Post
Your home: Preventing the 'usual suspects' during a home inspection
Prairie Village Post
Your home: Preventing the 'usual suspects' during a home inspection. Posted by Chad Taylor on Friday, May 17, 2013 at 1:00 pm. Comments. Tweet. By Chad Taylor. Question: What “usual suspects” that come up during inspections can a seller possibly ...

Nashville Ledger newspaper
How to avoid surprises from home inspection
Nashville Ledger newspaper
Home inspections are one of the most necessary functions performed in the home buying and selling process. A home inspection also can ruin a wonderful day for either the buyer or the seller. The buyers are in love with their soon-to-be-inhabited home ...

Fayette Advocate
Info sessions on SSCC's Home & Mold Inspection classes
Fayette Advocate
Through a partnership with Parker Training Services, Southern State Community College will provide continuing education programs in Home Inspection and Mold Inspection. The programs will be offered as short-term summer classes on the college's North ...

Ask Adam: Preparing for a Home Inspection
ARL now
Don't forget that the standard home inspection contingency usually provides them with the ability to cancel the contract. Yes, this does happen regardless of the market. Even too many little things can spook a homebuyer because they consider them clues ...

ABC Action News
What if you could find out about your home's past before you buy?
ABC Action News
House Fax describes itself as a baseline and in no way replaces an actual home inspection. Typically, a home inspection will turn up current problems, not past history. As a Realtor, Monroe said he's concerned potential buyers could be scared away by ...

Is Your Home Safe?
Patch.com
The home inspection will take about an hour and the occupant will be left with an inspection form containing recommendations to make your home safer. Things like pool safety – making sure there's a fence around a pool an motion lights – and talking to ...

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Neil Legatt starts Insight Home Inspection
In-Forum
Neil Legatt, a licensed home inspector, has started Insight Home Inspection servicing the Fargo-Moorhead and surrounding communities, including the lakes area. By: Forum staff reports , INFORUM. Neil Legatt, a licensed home inspector, has started ...

Consumer alert: Is your home inspector licensed?
Providence Eyewitness News
Many home inspection contracts only require that the home inspector refund the inspection fee to a client. Under the new law, Rhode Island home inspectors would be required to have several types of insurance covering errors, commissions and liability ...

The Marlton Telegram
Home inspection topic of seminar
The Marlton Telegram
Hunn and Buckley will address the topic “How to Assure a Home Inspection Does Not Kill a Deal.” U.S. Inspect bills itself as the one-stop solution for home inspection needs, including tests for radon, termites and more. Hunn is the Philadelphia/South ...

Carson Dunlop Partners with Southwestern College
San Francisco Chronicle
Carson Dunlop and Southwestern College have formed a strategic partnership to offer a career home inspection training program. The comprehensive 10-course certificate program is available through distance learning. Content is delivered in a highly ...

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Home inspection firm formed
Caymanian Compass
Mr. Salvi entered the real estate market a few years ago with Utopia Realty. Having listened to frequent complaints from home buyers about unexpected problems with their homes, Mr. Salvi realised the need for a proper home inspection service in the ...

Minnesota does not have a statewide licensing program for home inspectors ...
KARE
And, if given a choice, most people in the home inspection business would prefer that state not institute a licensing system. "Any time the government gets involved it seems like there's all kinds of strange rules and regulations and it costs more ...

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CBC.ca
Manitoba to make nursing home inspection results public
CBC.ca
Manitoba's health minister says she wants to make nursing home inspection details available to the public. Theresa Oswald responded to a CBC News I-Team investigation that found while more than one-quarter of Manitoba nursing homes that were ...

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Home inspector: Tenant gets bedroom with no window
Chicago Daily Herald
A. The best time to schedule your home inspection is immediately after signing the purchase contract. Home inspections typically occur during the first few days or weeks of a transaction. The time limit for having the inspection is usually specified in ...

Manitoba keeps care home inspection results secret
Updated News
Manitoba keeps care home inspection results secret More than one-quarter of Manitoba nursing homes that were reviewed in 2011-12 failed to meet certain standards, but the provincial government refuses to say which homes. The province inspects personal ...

Home Inspection Checklist - Interior
Minneapolis Star Tribune
This is a follow-up to last week's post, which gave a home inspection checklist for the exterior of homes. The goal of this checklist is to give potential home buyers a 'heads-up' for some potentially larger defects. This is obviously not a complete or ...

Fireside Group Offers Clients an Elder “Safety & Comfort” Home Inspection and ...
PR Web (press release)
Fireside Group Offers Clients an Elder “Safety & Comfort” Home Inspection and Assessment During “Older Americans” Month. Geriatric Care Managers, Mary Jo Saavedra and Susan Cain McCarty, partners in the Fireside Group, today announced an offer for ...

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Home inspection
Sherwood Park News
The Alberta government has rules that home inspectors and home inspection businesses must follow. The Home Inspection Business Regulation, part of Alberta's Fair Trading Act, requires all home inspection businesses and individual inspectors be licensed ...