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Entries from March 2009

Condominiums Chicago

Mar. 1st, 2009

If you want to save yourself time and unnecessary stress, find a professional Chicago realty provider to assist you in looking for condominiums Chicago has listed for sale. Right now, the market has an over-abundance of properties listed for sale, navigating through all the listings can be a difficult challenge. There are also a lot of great investment opportunities available now that a skilled real estate professional can bring to your attention.

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Home Inspectors and the Re-inspection, What Home Buyers Should Know

Mar. 1st, 2009

On the surface, it sounds simple enough. But, in fact, the simple re-inspection of a previously inspected home or property is very high liability to the working home inspector. A synopsis of the complexities of the re-inspection process, and why it worries home inspectors, is provided below. Frequently a home inspector is asked to re-inspect [...]

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Pressure Treated Lumber, What Home Buyers Should Look For!

Mar. 1st, 2009

Home inspectors cite wood to earth contact as a condition that will, eventually, lead to decay of the wood. Sometimes, the wood that is in contact with the soil is pressure treated lumber that is designed for that purpose. This article gives advice on what could be considered appropriate uses for pressure treated lumber. Wood [...]

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Pricing Your Condo or Loft Right the First Time

Mar. 1st, 2009

There are very different tactics used when pricing a house versus pricing a condo or loft. Houses use frontage and depth as a base price for land value and then adjustments are made for the actual dwelling. The physical house can vary in value based on its age, quality, renovations, functionality, which way it faces [...]

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Problems For a Home Inspector

Mar. 1st, 2009

A home inspection, because it is a visual inspection by a trained professional, has a certain number of built in limitations. An inspector cannot see into walls. However, when the utilities at a home have been shutoff, such as water, gas and electricity, that imposes limitations on the inspection and that severely impedes the overall [...]

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