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Unexpected Home Inspection Finds That Will Surprise You

By Brenda Masse / May 8, 2024 /

Last week, we looked at some common home inspection problems, so this week, let’s take a look at a few unexpected home inspection finds. As a rule, home inspectors learn to expect the unexpected, but sometimes they find things that, well, stand out. Here are a few examples. That’s What The TPR Valve Is For…

Common Home Inspection Problems You Can Fix Yourself

By Brenda Masse / May 1, 2024 /

When you’ve done as many home inspections as the inspectors at Green Scene Home Inspections have (close to 10,000), a few common themes emerge. People tend to neglect the same kinds of things in their homes, and of course, Mother Nature affects the homes in certain areas in the same sorts of ways. In Upon…

Flip House Fail Finds From The Home Inspector

By Brenda Masse / April 3, 2024 /

Not all flipped houses are created equal. You have some amazing, TV-worthy flips done by experts that will blow your mind. And then you have the ones done by folks who watch a lot of TV, think they can make some money flipping houses, and blow your mind in the wrong way. As we’ve mentioned…

You Should Not DIY Electricity Because You Watched Schoolhouse Rock (Electricity, Electricity)

By Brenda Masse / March 27, 2024 /

If you were born after 1989, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about, but some of us learned everything we needed to know from “Schoolhouse Rock.” Well, almost everything. Just because you know the song, and have watched a few YouTube videos since then, doesn’t mean that you and your power tools are…

Who’s Ready For Some Real Estate Humor?

By Brenda Masse / March 20, 2024 /

Has anyone else noticed that real estate news has been pretty crazy lately? Change is hard, and people in the industry might be feeling a little stressed these days. But spring has officially sprung, and there’s nothing to cure stressful times like laughter. And you know that we, here at Upon Closer Inspection, are always…