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Home Sellers Tips and Advice Furniture Staging The location of the furniture is critical, because every room in your home should feel balanced and in tune with all of its components. Furniture should be easy to navigate around, without clutter that may be a trip hazard. If your living room is filled with large heavy wooden pieces, and they are all grouped together or put on one side of the room, there is no balance and the room will not look or feel right. Throwing furniture into a room haphazardly, with no thought to design or the...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Top Questions: Facts and Concerns About Home Inspection This includes the roof, the attic, the interior and exterior walls, all the windows and doors, all systems including heating, plumbing, and electrical, and much more. A knowledgeable and experienced home inspector can provide valuable information about a home that can prevent you from making a costly mistake if conditions are too bad. Not all home problems and flaws are readily visible to the inexperienced eye...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Enlightening Findings About Home Inspections First let's discuss the methodology of the study. It was done through MEG's omnibus poll. This poll consisted of 1,000 phone interviews which were divided equally among four regions of the United States, with 250 persons in each of these regions: the Northeast, the Midwest, the South, and the West. Those who responded to the survey were all U.S. consumers who had bought a house within the 18 months prior to the survey. There was a margin of error in the study of plus...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Myths You Mustn't Believe About Home Inspections There's no real difference in home inspectors. Truth: A person is not qualified as a home inspector just because he or she claims the title--or even if they're certified. In fact, some states don't even require that an inspector have a license. Therefore, it's essential that you examine the person's credentials carefully, and if you're not familiar with the certifying body, investigate them to make sure they are credible. It's also a good idea to...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Home Inspection Guide These major problems don't need to deter you from buying the house, but unless your seller is willing to pay for the repairs or replacement required, it might not be worth purchasing if you know in advance that you will have major expenditures. However, if you are planning on doing a major renovation after you move in, then you can take care of some of these issues that the seller isn't willing to accommodate...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Home Inspection: First Item on Your List of Things To Do Sometimes it takes a long time before your home is purchased, and having documentation on a home that has been inspected three months ago does not ease a person's mind. A lot of times you, the buyer, are still residing in the home until it is sold. During that time anything can happen. You should not get your home inspected once every month because that can be costly, but you should make sure to keep notes on the homes progress and when it warrants it, get another inspection...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Tips on a Thorough Home Inspection These questions are important, because without adequate experience the inspector may miss signs of a hidden problem. Choose a home inspection company that exclusively does only home inspections, and does not just practice this as a sideline to their day job. Ask about the reports that will be given, will you get a written report, an oral report, or both? Does the home inspection company have certification? Do they have insurance...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Home Inspection Maintenance Checklist Doing a periodic maintenance check on your home can reduce costs and eliminate some headaches later. It is a good idea to keep a checklist that can be a regular household chore to ensure that you are aware of any problems that might be small now, but could cause major damage if you don't take immediate action...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Environmental Issues with Foreclosures The property is then put up for auction with a low opening bid. Buying at auction is the riskiest way to purchase, because it limits your ability to examine the property fully, and because it will be sold "as is." Auction properties carry no warranties. Because untrained homebuyers or investors do not easily detect so many defects in homes, this can be a dangerous proposition. Request a home inspection report, one may have been completed, which you can obtain...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 How To Ensure That Your House Sells Quickly While it might sound like a good idea to list it right away and expose it to as many potential buyers as possible, remember that buyers assume a home has been listed for a long time because there is something wrong with it and no one wants to buy it. Ideally, you would list your home when you already have a few buyers in mind. Since this is not usually possible, it's best to wait until the summer season has begun and the maximum number of would-be buyers...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Some Simple Tips To Sell Your Home In fact, most Real Estate Agents will advise you to de-clutter yourself from the home during showings. A potential buyer is surely more relaxed and open to viewing each and every room in your home if the seller is not watching every move. Don't forget to tidy the closets. A potential buyer is sure to open the door to closets, not to be nosy, but to assess the space of a clothes closet and linen closet and you don't want them to open the door to a clothing nightmare...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Advantages of Hiring a Professional Realtor While most home buyers will use more than one resource to find the right place for them, almost ninety percent of the time, they end up choosing a home that they were guided to by a professional. Even if they use tools such as the real estate listings or online forums and realty sites, there is something comforting about going through a professional. It is estimated that if you choose not to use a realtor, you'll be exposing your house to less than ten percent of what you...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Choosing A Realtor There are several different ways to find a good realtor. These are methods that have been developed and tested over the years and they are the ones that seem to work the best. Word of mouth is the first of these. Friends, relatives and neighbors can give you the names of agents with whom they have dealt with, and they can offer you their recommendations. As well, the open houses in any area provide an opportunity to meet realtors...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Home Sellers Tips One of the first concerns is with the kind of zoning the property has. Specifically, you'll need to know if the property you are selling as any unauthorized accommodations. If the house is yours you will know if there are any illegal basement apartments, and quite often laws concerning these vary from state to state. However, if you're selling the property on behalf of someone or as a way to earn a living for yourself, you'll need to carefully look at this kind of potential issue...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Cheap Aesthetic Improvements Simple appliances, such as faucets and cabinet handles can be replaced for a minimum expenditure and labor, but inestimably add to the initial impression of a home buyer. The cabinets themselves are often subjected to a thorough inspection. Try to make them seem as large as possible by keeping them neat and even relatively empty. While replacing a kitchen floor is not really inexpensive, if the old floor is in serious disrepair, the benefits of good looking kitchen floor are enormous...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Replacing Light Fixtures If there are only two wires visible in the electrical box it's usually quite simple and all you need to do is connect the black wire to the black and the white wire to the white connections with a twist connector. Four wires means that two carry the incoming power and the other two carry the power to the switch. If you've got any doubts, turn the power on and then use a volt tester to identify the hot pair...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. 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That way, even if the house doesn't sell, you've got something to much on while you're planning another...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? Call Toll Free 866-476-2056 Laying Ceramic Floor Tiles There are a series of steps ,however, that are generally the same no matter what kind of tile you are laying. Begin by laying out the floor and snapping chalk lines to guide your work. Using the trowel, apply only as much adhesive as you will need, before it dries. Next, you'll want to press the individual tiles into the adhesive, giving each a slight twist to make sure that the tile underside is completely covered with adhesive...continue reading Need a free consultation with Inspector; D. Kanakis with regard to your Home Inspection needs right now? 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	Home Inspections Pre-sale Can Limit a Seller's Liability You've closed the sale of your house, deposited your check, and are set to go on with your life. But one morning two months after the sale, you get a registered letter: Your buyer has discovered asbestos in the insulation around the heating ducts in your former home and now demands big bucks from you for cleanup and replacement. Are you liable? It depends. Forty years ago, no question, the buyer would have had an uphill job collecting anything from you. "Let the buyer beware." But these days, many states--California and Arizona are two examples--and some localities, have enacted disclosure laws. Sellers are required by law to tell potential buyers about any defect in the property that they know about--or that they should know about. Some disclosures, such as the presence of lead paint, are mandated by federal law, and apply in every state. In the scenario above, if you sold your house in a state or locality with a disclosure law, and you knew about the asbestos and didn't tell the buyer, you're in trouble. At the very least, you've got a lawsuit to defend. Even if your state doesn't have such a law, a court might find you liable for deliberately concealing such an important fact about your property. If, on the other hand, you didn't know about the asbestos, and you can prove that you did everything you reasonably could to tell the buyer about any potential problems, you're in a much stronger position. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More Articles here consumer alerts Local home inspector -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One way to reduce potential liability for hidden defects in a house you sell is to order a pre-sale home inspection. Home inspections cover material matters like roof, plumbing, attic, wiring, furnace, air conditioner, and foundation. Such an inspection can be ordered by either the seller or the potential buyer, and is customary these days for buyers. But a thorough seller's inspection, sometimes called a pre-listing inspection, would have caught the defective asbestos insulation issue in our example above not only before the sale, but before the house even went on the market. The asbestos problem could have been cleaned up by a contractor of your choice, on your time scheme, and under your control, and the cost could have been rolled into your sale price. And you could have shown the inspector's report, with proof of repair, to the buyer. You'd have proof, from a professional, independent third party, that you had disclosed everything you knew about the property, and the buyer wouldn't have had a leg to stand on. A pre-sale home inspection, paid for by the seller, can definitely help to limit the seller's liability for property defects discovered by the buyer afterwards. And, it can help the seller fulfill his responsibility to comply with disclosure laws and regulations. Each state has its own requirements and its own forms. Filling out those forms adequately can be a challenge. A seller's inspection report will have all the information necessary to complete those forms and will also serve as supporting documentation for the seller's disclosure. A seller's inspection can also save time and inconvenience for all parties. The second most common deal breaker in home sales is a problem discovered during a buyer's inspection. Sales have gone west because the seller didn't disclose that there was no hardwood floor underneath his Persian rug, or because he removed a potted ficus tree from its place next to the front door. A seller's inspection gives the seller a head's up on any potential problems so they can be dealt with before the buyer's inspection is performed, or even ordered. A seller's inspection can be a benefit to all parties--a win-win-win. The inspector's report is written proof that the seller has disclosed everything he knew about the property. It's the ultimate gesture of truth-telling. It should not only serve as proof of full disclosure but also provide protection against future legal claims. And, it may relieve a prospective buyer's mind of any unfounded suspicions he may have about the seller's integrity and good faith. A common myth about seller inspections is that they may kill a deal. But any problem big enough to kill a deal will probably be discovered eventually, anyway. If it's discovered ahead of time, before the potential buyer comes into the picture, the seller has time to repair the damage, or to negotiate an adjustment with the buyer without the restraints imposed by an impending closing, when negotiations are handled by counter offers with deadlines of days, if not hours. Another argument says a newer home in good condition doesn't need an inspection, so why should the seller go to the extra expense? But even in that situation a seller's inspection can be a benefit. Because a home inspector is an independent, objective outsider, his or her report can be a persuasive piece of marketing material. But in these litigious times, the best argument for having a pre-sale, pre-listing, seller's inspection done is protection from future legal claims. The inspector's report is proof that the seller has met his obligations for full disclosure and that he has acted forthrightly to inform the buyer of any defects he knows about. So if that ominous registered letter arrives at your front door, you'll be ready. Want to get a free consultation from Licensed Inspector D. Kanakis now? New York Home Inspector Manhattan Home Inspector Brooklyn Home Inspector Queens Home Inspector Staten Island Home Inspector The Bronx Home Inspector Yonkers Home Inspector Westchester Home Inspector Nassau County Long Island Home Inspector