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Duluth News Tribune
Avoid first-time homebuyer mistakes
Duluth News Tribune
Once a seller accepts your offer, you may be tempted to fast-forward the process and skip the home inspection, but it's important to know if the house is in solid shape. Aside from helping to identify any major structural flaws, a home inspection can ...

Lincoln Journal Star
2 injured as explosion levels home, rocks neighborhood in southeast Lincoln
Lincoln Journal Star
Gas and power was shut off in the area as crews conducted a home-to-home inspection. The blast moved some from their foundation. Bryce Rowell, who lives in the 5600 block of South 77th Street, wasn't home when the explosion happened. “When the ...

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Stand Out With a Smoother Home Inspection
RisMedia.com (press release)
During that time, Gabbard has guided hundreds of families through the home-buying process, and he knows that a home inspection is imperative when supporting clients with the largest financial purchase of their lives. To meet the home inspection needs ...

Mike Croxall: Preparing For Your Home Inspection
The Chattanoogan
Whether you're closing on your first house or your fifth, buying a home can be both exciting and overwhelming at the same time. But don't let your long to-do list deter you from completing one of the most important items: scheduling a home inspection.

Gainesville Sun
REAL ESTATE MATTERS: Bad home inspector should be ...
Gainesville Sun
Q: Can you please provide more information on one of your articles I recently read about home inspectors? The article paints home inspectors in a bad light.

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Avoid These Pitfalls On First Home Buy
Valley News
Don't Skip the Home Inspection: Once a seller accepts your offer, you may be tempted to fast-forward the process and skip the home inspection, but it's important to know if the house is in solid shape. Aside from helping to identify any major ...

The Hillsdale Daily News
Golf outing benefits Salvation Army programs
The Hillsdale Daily News
HILLSDALE – Proceeds from the second annual Cutting Edge Home Inspection Golf Outing will provide some comfort to those seeking help from the Hillsdale Salvation Army. The local company dealing in home inspections in Hillsdale and surrounding ...

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What to expect when you buy a home
Elizabethtown News Enterprise
After the offer is accepted, usually a termite and home inspection is conducted on the home. If a major issue or damage is found, the buyer could decide to cancel their offer. If it is minor, a repair request it will be submitted to the seller to ...

OCRegister
What's in a seller's closet? You can look, but don't touch
OCRegister
If you see something you might want to investigate more carefully, make a note of it and hold off until you do the home inspection. If you end up with another house, you stayed completely within your bounds. If you end up in escrow, show your home ...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
REAL ESTATE MATTERS: Bad home inspector should be investigated
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
There has been a movement over the past 10 to 15 years (or longer) by the professional home inspection industry to try to limit liability for a poor inspection to the cost of the home inspection. The damage caused by a poor inspection might cost a ...

ABC Action News
First time homebuyers left with disaster home after skipping the ...
ABC Action News
First time homebuyers hoping for a happily ever after wound up living a horror story. The couple says the mobile home they purchased was advertised as well ...

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10News
Tips on Buying Your First Home, Including How to Calculate Your Mortgage Payment
10News
A home inspection is no longer required by the lenders but highly recommended to have one done for your protection. Your real estate agent can recommend a licensed inspector. Purchasing a home—whether it's your first or you're downsizing—can be a ...

eParisExtra.com (blog)
Home for Sale near Paris Junior College | Paris, Texas
eParisExtra.com (blog)
Calling all investors and first time buyers! Three bedrooms, living, dining, oversized lot in South East Paris! Close to PJC, popular restaurants & more!

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WTTV CBS4Indy
Home inspector, jailed on third OWI charge, still holds active state license
WTTV CBS4Indy
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- A home inspector facing complaints from customers in the Indianapolis area landed behind bars the day before a state hearing on his license. CBS4 Problem Solvers has been looking into Anthony Maxie, who runs a home inspection ...

9NEWS.com
6 mistakes home buyers make all too often
9NEWS.com
Hopefully, your home inspection revealed any repairs that need to be done in the near future. Even so, sometimes things break down unexpectedly, or weird weather events happen. Would you be able to afford a new $10,000 roof if a freak hail storm tore ...

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BUSINESS BUZZ: Home inspector course; Entech
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota will offer a Florida applied home inspection course Aug. 25-27 on the Bradenton campus. The course is designed to make the home inspection business easy to understand and should prepare students to take a ...

Realtor.com News
What Does Active Contingent Mean? A Home Sale With Conditions
Realtor.com News
If a house is "active contingent," some contingencies such as a home inspection must be met. But if a house is "pending," it means that no contingencies exist or they have all been met. This, of course, leads us to the big question: Should you put in ...

Yes, it's still a seller's market if you're trying to buy a home
The Olympian
Although that is happening in this market, Peters emphasized how important it is to get a home inspection if you're a buyer. Here's also what happens when you have too little inventory: Sales fall, just as they did last month in King County, where ...

Realtor.com News
5 Things Buyers Should Never, Ever Say When Closing on a Home
Realtor.com News
The exception would be if there's an issue related to home inspection repairs that you found during the final walk-through, in which case you should absolutely speak up, says Weiniger. However, if you failed to make your offer contingent on something, ...

Nowhere to Hide: Despite State Law, Mobile Home Residents Often ...
KAALtv.com
A unique and decades-old law in Minnesota that requires mobile home parks to offer storm shelters or evacuation plans for residents is often not taken seriously ...

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