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A Home Inspection Can Save You Thousands

This is a short yet informative article put out by Care One Debt Relief Services for home buyers. Purchasing a home is probably the single largest purchase you will make in your lifetime. Protect your investment by hiring a professional home inspector to examine the house before you buy. Usually, you will have already examined […]

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Know the Difference Between Appraisals and Home Inspections

Home appraisers and inspectors each play very important functions in setting the stage for real estate sales. Both generate reports that can be used to prevent the buyer from overpaying, but their roles are far from identical. Lenders require appraisals to make sure they don’t approve loans for more than the properties are worth. Appraisers […]

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What is a Home Inspection Contingency?

About.com details what a home inspection contingency is, and why it has become so important in the world of real estate for buyers and their agents. Home inspection contingencies are handled differently across America, depending on local custom and state laws. In most states, a home inspection contingency is part of the purchase contract. This […]

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Navigating Your First Home Inspection

There are a lot of unknowns that come with being a first-time home buyer, not to mention it will be the biggest financial commitment most have ever made. A home inspection is a must for any first-time home buyer to help ensure they don’t get stuck with a nightmare property. This article from the TLC […]

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How to Keep from Buying a “House of Horrors”

AOL Real Estate gives us this excellent piece on how important home inspections are, and how they can save the potential buyers thousands of dollars and worry. Included are several anecdotes on homeowners who have purchased “lemons” along with advice from real estate attorneys, agents, and home inspection professionals with a great video of a […]

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Mice Infest Winnipeg Woman’s $1M House

A Canadian woman discovered that the $1 million house she’d just bought had a mouse infestation so thoroughly entrenched that she’s had to rip apart the home down to the framework to get rid of it. So how did she miss this “little” problem before buying the home? She says she didn’t get a home […]

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A New Solution Found for Dirty Sock Syndrome

“They call it ‘Dirty Sock’ syndrome because that’s what it smells like, just like a gym locker,” said David Debien, owner of Central City Air in Houston and known throughout the country as an air conditioning guru. “It started showing up 10 or 12 years ago and it has been a difficult problem to solve. […]

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Sustainable Energy: Tips to help the environment and save $$$!

Earth Day is an annual reminder of our precious natural resources — and an annual call to adopt smart measures of sustainable energy. And what better place to begin than at home! “There are smart, affordable things you can do to be sustainable — things that are practical, affordable, give a reasonable return on investment […]

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Allergies? Maybe it’s your Air Conditioning

Children are most susceptible to allergies. Spring is one of the worst times for plant pollen allergies. Some doctors call Spring and Summer, “peak allergy season.” “Food and skin allergies are on the rise and respiratory allergies are the most common type of allergy affecting children,” according to a report from the CDC published on […]

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Indoor Air Pollution Increases Asthma Symptoms

A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found an association between increasing levels of indoor particulate matter pollution and the severity of asthma symptoms among children. The study, which followed a group of asthmatic children in Baltimore, Md., is among the first to examine the effects of indoor particulate matter pollution. The results are […]

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