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There are inspection reports I read quickly, and then there are the ones where I lean back, crack my knuckles, and slow down on purpose.Oak Ridge is always the second kind. When our Knoxville inspector sends me a report from Oak Ridge, I already know the house is going to
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I’m based in Memphis, but I review a lot of inspection reports coming out of Southeast Missouri. When our inspector in the Cape Girardeau area flags a crawlspace moisture issue, it’s rarely a surprise. River towns behave differently, and the Mississippi creates a humidity problem that doesn’t show up the
Most investors have had a “commercial inspection.”Far fewer have had a Property Condition Assessment (PCA) that actually satisfies lenders. There’s a big difference. Under the updated ASTM E2018-24 standard, lenders and institutional investors aren’t looking for a checklist or a narrative report. They’re looking for a baseline risk document that
When I review inspection reports from Hardin County, radon testing is one of the items I pay the closest attention to — especially for families relocating to the Elizabethtown and Radcliff area. Kentucky consistently ranks among the higher radon states, and Central Kentucky’s geology plays a big role in that.
I review a growing number of inspection reports from Central Kentucky tied directly to the development boom around Glendale and the BlueOval SK project. With that growth has come a wave of new construction in and around Elizabethtown, and the assumption many buyers make is the same every time: new
Let’s get something straight right out of the gate. Most “hunting cabins” in Hardeman County are just sheds that somebody decided to sleep in. And that’s fine—until you try to convince yourself it’s a house, insure it like a house, or buy it thinking it’s going to behave like one.
Let me clear something up right away. A $1M house does not equal a low-maintenance house.In a lot of cases, it means the opposite. In places like Piperton and Rossville, I inspect some absolutely beautiful homes. Big footprints. Clean lines. Gated drives. The kind of places where buyers assume everything
Log homes look solid. Thick walls. Heavy timbers. People assume they’re bulletproof. They’re not. Logs are organic, and organic materials don’t just sit there forever behaving themselves. They move, they absorb moisture, they dry out, and when conditions are right, they get eaten—slowly and quietly—by things you won’t notice until
If you’re buying a storefront on a small-town square in Bolivar or Whiteville, you’re not buying a building. You’re buying a relationship. And that relationship includes your neighbors’ roofs, their plumbing, their drainage, and sometimes their bad decisions from 40 years ago. Main Street commercial buildings don’t live in isolation.
If your crawlspace in West Tennessee still relies on passive vents, it’s already losing. I don’t care how new the house is. I don’t care what the builder said. And I definitely don’t care that “it’s how they’ve always done it.” In the Delta climate—from Memphis to Jackson—passive crawlspace vents
