Part 1: Everything is not okay There's a lot of things you don't get to know before signing a contract to purchase a house—as a buy...

As a buyer in a real estate transaction, why is it important to have an inspection? The answer is not “to make sure everything is okay.” In...

Things have been busy, so the blog slowed down. Time to get things going again with a short picture post, which shows part of why things hav...

Steve Nordheus, the City of Norfolk's structural inspector, knows the road between his office and my house quite well. The fact that the...

It's true.

This is one of the things I try to help people avoid—replacing rotted sill plates (the board with the nails is a temporary replacement). No...

Part 1: Deal chippers Part 2: Acceptable vs. wrong Now for part 3. From Alan Pickrel, Building and Electrical Inspector for the City of Co...