Yes, another inspection has made its way onto the "common" list for home sales, the sewer. Costing $180-200, a plumber or sewer company inserts a flexible probe with a camera and light at the end, and records a video of the sewer interior from the main dr...
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ow much brass is in your home today? And is it the newer - softer finish?....or the 80s - high polish style? I have not seen a groundswell for bringing brass back in St Louis, at least not yet. I'm sure some will say it is all the rage, and others not so ...
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Scammers have caught up to the real estate transaction. Most of us are familiar with having our email hacked, or know others who have. This is how the home purchase wire fraud begins, by scammers trolling and hacking individual's email accounts. Although ...
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Kitchen appliance colors and styles change like everything else. When one goes kaput, you need to decide quickly what to replace it with. When you are renovating, you have a little more time and can match as desired. What will it be? Silver stainless st...
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Every few years I re-visit wallpaper - ah yes, good ole wallpaper. And every few years I say "Don't do it". Even though I maintain that as a recommendation, I am starting to see a crack in acceptability IF, and I mean IF, it is a new style. If it is an ol...
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With the difficulty that many buyers are running into these days finding suitable housing before it sells to someone else, here is an alternative: New Construction! The pace of building new homes is about half of what they were in our 2005 heyday, but s...
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Edit Delete Blog Space 9-12-18, How Many Ways can a Basement Leak? Let me count the ways. Having listed, sold, shown and attended inspections on many, many homes over 28 years of selling them, I have experienced 18 ways for water to find its way into ...
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Go into a recently finished lower level/ basement and look up. Will you see painted drywall or ceiling tiles on a grid, known as a drop or suspended ceiling? Chances are good it will be drywall. How about one from 20 years ago? Chances are it is a dro...
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Your First Step Toward Buying a Home When preparing to buy a home, the first thing many homebuyers do is look at the real estate ads in newspapers, magazines and listings on the Internet. Some potential buyers read how-to articles like this one. The next...
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How would you like a mortgage loan where you did not have to make the whole payment if you did not want to? Or would you like a loan with an interest rate about 1% below a thirty-year fixed rate mortgage and pay zero points? Or a loan where you did not ha...
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