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Ask the Inspector: Shingle fatigue
Leader-Telegram
Duerkop is a licensed home inspector and serves as president and education director of the Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors for the central and northern Wisconsin chapters. To submit a question to him, call 866-715-8222 or email ...

News Briefs – Feb. 2
Gustine Press-Standard
28, Cardio Power and Resistance The Safe Seniors Community Project, a program of United Cerebral Palsy of Stanislaus and Tuolumne Counties, is offering a home safety inspection for seniors 62 and older who own their own home. The program also provides ...

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NTSB Final Report on 2010 Missouri School Bus Crash Uncovers Troubling Issues
School Transportation News
First off, Daniel Schatz, the son of Republican state House candidate Dave Schatz, started the chain-reaction crash on Aug. 5, 2010 as he read five texts and sent another six in the 11 minutes prior to crashing his GMC pickup into the rear of a Volvo ...

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Dirty Restaurants
NBC San Diego
The foods differ but they all have one thing in common: regular inspections, by San Diego County's Environmental Health Department. A food safety expert arrives unannounced, two or three times a year, at every licensed restaurant.

Kathy Yamamoto: Banks must make disclosures to buyers
The Salinas Californian
ANSWER: When buying a home, the seller is legally obligated to disclose certain facts about the property for sale. Although the seller in an REO (real estate owned by the bank) transaction is exempt from completing a “Transfer Disclosure Statement” ...

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Darien Home Inspector Finds Little Problems Before They Become Big Problems
Patch.com
Jeff Prince worked for 15 years as a bookbinder. He didn't plan to change careers. But as the printing industry shrunk, his job disappeared. Prince used this opportunity to take his career in a different direction, starting his own business in Darien ...

Seminar will introduce first-time buyers to real estate investment
The Daily Citizen
“We'll have two lenders there — Alliance National Bank and First Bank of Dalton — and a home inspector, Precise Home Inspections,” said Mike Maret, principal broker at Coldwell Banker/Kinard Realty. “So if anybody has any questions about home ...

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Home repairs: Which jobs come first?
CNN
"There's no homeowner's manual that tells you when to do what," says Naperville, Ill., home inspector and structural engineer Mark Waldman. Emergencies aside, the project that could cause the most damage and expense if left unfixed is the priority.

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Your Place: More about dampness in Shore home
Philadelphia Inquirer
Home inspector/engineer Harry Gross in Cherry Hill reminded me that we once talked about sealing off the crawl-space vents with vapor barrier and insulated walls as the best approach for this region. But when there is a lot of moisture, as there may be ...

OCFA to give away deaf and hard-of-hearing smoke alarm devices
Orange County Breeze
While supplies last, OCFA will distribute these fire alerting devices to multi-family homes with deaf and hard of hearing residents. Installations will be done by volunteers and OCFA staff and will include a smoke alarm inspection at the time of ...

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Mouse Feces Found in Starbucks Coffee
LimeLife (blog)
Okay, they don't do it intentionally, but a recent health inspection of the coffee shops in Manhattan (including one at 30 Rock, home of the NBC studios) found evidence of mouse feces. Gawker has posted a list of some of the worst latte offenders in ...

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ViaSat Calls on Radisys Expertise to Develop ATCA-Based Satellite Broadband ...
Business Wire (press release)
Radisys provided its design consulting services, backed by significant investment in R&D and industry-leading expertise in the development of ATCA solutions, to help ViaSat develop the custom ATCA boards and complete the middleware integration in-house ...

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Suspects handcuff, pepper-spray, rob IE homeowner
abc7.com
(KABC) -- Two men conned their way inside a San Bernardino home and handcuffed, pepper-sprayed and robbed the homeowner. Police say the two suspects posed as some type of home inspection workers to get inside the home located on the 1700 block of Lugo ...

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DILLHYON v. DUNN
Leagle.com
4 The inspection contingency of the Offer to Purchase provided that the offer was "contingent upon a Wisconsin registered home inspector performing a home inspection of the Property, and an inspection, by a qualified independent inspector, ...

A real-deal local chimney sweep talks of smokestack stereotypes and fire ...
Monterey County Weekly
He recalls watching helplessly as giant flames engulfed his home in 1971 – and having no idea what had caused it. A fireman who showed up at the scene informed Forbes that the disaster probably could have been prevented by a simple inspection.

7 deadly sins of property investment
Moneyweb.co.za
However, it is always advisable to have a professional home inspector to take a look at the property. “A professional inspector will be able to spot any problems that may otherwise go unnoticed, such as the structural integrity of the property.

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Ask the Home Inspectors: Why even order a home inspection?
Victoria Advocate
Instead of hiring a home inspector, though, the couple opted to save a bit of money and rely on knowledge gained from those do-it-yourself shows. They toured each room, turned on a few faucets, fired up the air conditioner and deemed everything seemed ...

Gardus Launches Revolutionary Rotary Gutter Cleaning System
Sacramento Bee
This unique system includes everything you need to quickly inspect, clean and maintain your gutters from ground level, reducing both the risk of injury from ladder falls and the potential for costly damage to your home resulting from neglected gutter ...

Santa Cruz landlord issued correction notice for roach infestation of Sleep ...
San Jose Mercury News
By Jondi Gumz SANTA CRUZ -- The owner of the Sleep Tight Motel, whose rental units are among the first to be inspected under a new city ordinance, has been ordered to make corrective repairs by Friday. The notice was issued Jan.

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Santa Cruz landlord issued correction notice for roach infestation
Santa Cruz Sentinel
By JONDI GUMZ - Santa Cruz Sentinel SANTA CRUZ — The owner of the Sleep Tight Motel, whose rental units are among the first to be inspected under a new city ordinance, has been ordered to make corrective repairs by Feb. 6. The notice was issued Jan.