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You are buying a home. You think you can rely on your REALTOR® for sound advice concerning your choice of a Real Estate Inspector. Surprise! The Inspector you ended up hiring is not even licensed. It may be that the Inspector was never licensed, lost his license to disciplinary action, failed to take the required…
It is that time of year again. And…there is a new twist; a new contributor to carbon monoxide poisoning that may be showing up in new homes more often than one might think. I recently inspected a brand new home that had the heating and air conditioning system configured so that there is a ‘fresh-air’…
Home Buyers…Beware the Low Bid In over 20 years of working with home buyers that are building a new home, it is amazing how many of them have fallen for the ‘Low Bid’ shenanigans that many home builders devise. Time after time, I see where a home buyer is lured into thinking that they can…
You have decided to purchase a home. Whether a new home or a pre-owned home, you deserve to know the true condition of the home. Knowing as much about the home as is reasonably possible gives you a better opportunity to protect your family. Many defects found in pre-owned homes were there since the day…
Home buyers Benefit from Home builder and Inspector Information Sharing The Texas Association of Real Estate Inspectors (TAREI) is providing on-site education for Texas Real Estate Inspectors this January 20th & 21st. While continuing to offer classroom instruction on how to protect clients by teaching the Art and Intricacies of Home Inspections, TAREI is now…
So, you have decided to sell your house. It can be for any reason. You may have outgrown your current house. You could be downsizing. You may be cost cutting and looking for a way to trim your mortgage payment and related property taxes. It doesn’t matter why you want to sell your house. What…
It is really amazing how many pressures honest real estate agents must contend with in this day and age of greed and deception and often the pressures come from those in their own industry. But first, let’s talk about the hard working, honest and confident real estate agent. Confident agents guide their clients to competent…
There is a recent move within the Inspector Advisory Committee (IAC) at the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) to alter the Rules and the Standards that a Licensed Real Estate Inspector must comply with. This will be a real test to see whether IAC can convince the Commissioners at TREC that an ‘As Built, Performance-Based’…
This article is a continuation of a multi-part series on the dangers of the Texas Real Estate Commission’s Inspector Advisory Committee’s (IAC) attempts to alter the Real Estate Commission Rules and Standards of Practice that govern the actions of Real Estate Inspectors (aka ‘Home Inspector’). What follows are more examples of how homebuyers and sellers…
Whether you are buying a home or selling a home, don’t let 3rd parties put you at risk. As a buyer, you are entitled to know exactly what you are buying. As a seller, you don’t want the liability that a lack of disclosure and lack of discovery can create. Sellers should know that the…