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Two things: chances are you have them in your house, and they all have the potential for serious toxicity. Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World is full of scary eye-openers, but it also includes plenty of ways to improve the well-being and safety of your family at home, … I will have to admit that on my first glance at this book, written by two doctors and a public health expert, I felt overwhelmed by its checklists and inspection suggestions to use in our home. …  read more…

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Steps to Become a Home Owner
A home is a shelter. It is where you live, love, relax, and entertain friends, raise families, and work. Most people dream of owning a home. Here are tips of how to make owning a home a reality.

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Why Inspect a Property Yourself Before Hiring a Certified Home Inspector
When it comes time to purchase a home, hiring a certified home inspector is an important step. The job of a home inspector is to not only determine the condition of the house, but also give advice on …  read more…

Use Your Own Checklist To Accompany A Professional Home Inspection
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Resolved Question: Our landlord doesn’t have a walk through checklist from when we moved in, can she keep our deposit?
We rented a house from friends of ours in Feb. 2007. When we moved in they had US clean up the outside of the house that was trashed from the previous renters. They asked us to take pictures so that they could pay us and sue the previous tenants for the money to clean it up. We spent 12 hours (2 people) cleaning the property (2 acres) and then when the landlord decided not to sue, they never paid us. We do have the pictures however to show the condition of the outside of the house.
Since they were our friends, they didn’t do a walk through and said they trusted we would fix things and have them in the same order. The house was built in 1890 and is falling apart. The foundation is sinking, the pipes are old, there is even the old wallpaper falling apart on the walls. It has old country charm but is in serious need of some upgrades.
We had a falling out with the landlord in Dec. 2008 because the pipes froze and broke and they said they didn’t have the money to fix them. They insisted that my husband help them fix the pipes (with no compensation) and that we were not good parents to our children for letting them go without water!!! Needless to say we refused to help them fix it and moved out immediately.
The landlord now says that we did alot of damage and left furniture in the house that was actually there when we moved in. My relatives helped us move in and will testify to the things that were left there and the condition when we moved in. But since there is no inspection or pictures of the inside, can the landlord withold our deposit?

thanks!

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Resolved Question: What are all the different fees in buying a house?
I am trying to make somewhat of a checklist to add up what the total cost of buying a house would be. I know there are inspection fees, closing costs, etc. But I want to know all those little fees that I would be able to put into an excel file and just add the numbers later. I know there are a lot.

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Resolved Question: Doing my own home inspection vs. hiring a professional.?
So I’m buying my first house soon, been bargaining and unless I’m outbid over the weekend, we should have settled on a price.

Now I’m not just rolling in dough, so $300 for a house inspection is alot of money for me. I am a carpenter, and a pretty intelligent guy. My realtor knows I’m a penny pincher, and said I might consider doing my own inspection.

He said that they pretty much just come in, test all the appliances, outlets, check the attic and crawl spaces for rot or water damage, check the chimney for good condition on the grout, check under the deck for rot, make sure all the furnace vents work, check for mold/deterioration on the roof, check under the sinks and other plumbing areas for signs of water damage, cracks from settling, and stuff like that. He said that its all pretty much visual stuff, that their not really doing anything he doesn’t feel I’m capable of doing, and most inspections only take about 2 hours. That seems like alot of money for me to be paying for 2 hours of time.

Is that really how inspections are, or are they alot more elaborate?

Is it something I can probably tackle myself if I find a good checklist and do a little research on the web, and spending multiple hours to be thorough, or is a professinal actually going to do a far superior job than I could hope to do myself.

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