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A City With a Wide Range of Housing Ages When I review reports from our Centerview, Missouri inspector, Sedalia always stands out for one reason: the sheer variety of housing styles and construction eras packed into a relatively small area. In Sedalia, it’s not unusual to inspect a late-1800s Victorian
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
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
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
Homes near the SEMO grain corridor live in a different environmental reality than properties tucked into residential subdivisions. In places like Sikeston and Scott City, grain elevators, rail spurs, and processing facilities aren’t just part of the skyline — they actively shape the air, pests, and building conditions surrounding nearby
Cape Girardeau’s historic brick homes weren’t built to fail — but they were built for a soil and climate that behave very differently than most buyers expect today. When I inspect 1920s-era masonry homes in the Haute Mode neighborhoods, I’m not just looking for cracks. I’m looking for movement patterns
Radon in East Tennessee isn’t hypothetical. It’s not a “maybe.” It’s not something you wait to worry about after you move in. In this part of the state — Knoxville included — radon is baked into the geology, and basements are the easiest way for it to get inside your
