by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership
I’ve posted before about the concern with poison drywall from China. It is a big problem in Florida and a number of other states. You can find more legal information about the Chinese drywall here. And it looks like there have not been problems reported to date in... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Ownership, Mortgages, Moving, Uncategorized
It sounds like some incoming physicians doing their residency here have been receiving bad information about available mortgage options. The mortgage market has changed dramatically over the last two years. There are now only about a half dozen zero downpayment... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Tech, Ventilation
I heard an interesting story yesterday from a home inspector that works in the Washtenaw County area. It was about one of those enlightening moments in his career and it happened ten or twelve years ago. He was at an inspection and he was talking to the home buyer... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Ownership, Mortgages, Moving, Uncategorized
The national association most of the top buyer agents belong to (naeba.org) just posted this press release: AVONDALE, Ariz., March 31, 2009, /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — As fewer transactions are split up between a relatively fixed number of real estate... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Electrical, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Moving, Seasonal, Ventilation
Homes that have been “abused” We sometimes talk about homes that have suffered from abuse from their owners. A friend of mine ran across this example in a home he bought recently. The furnace had been run for years without a filter. Here is what he saw when he opened... 