Damage during Home Inspection
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Comments (20)Infodivamary3, that reminds me of when we were looking at one particular house. We were upstairs and I noticed a smell -- then we noticed poop tracked throughout the hall and 2 bedrooms -- then we found it on my dh's shoe. We at first assumed he had tracked it in from the back yard, but when I saw that there were no tracks on the carpeted stairs, we started checking around and found the dog pile on a small throw rug in one of the bedrooms. Our agent just calmly set to work cleaning it up. She found an old washcloth in the linen closet and then searched out some carpet cleaner -- cleaned it all up, including the original pile. Took the washcloth with her when we left, and never mentioned it to the homeowner. The incident flustered us, but it didn't faze her in the least. Five weeks later we bought that house (and ripped out all the carpet!)....See MoreHardwood Floor Damaged During Showing..It is Just Maddening
Comments (94)Wow, there sure area lot of opinions about shoes on shoes off. As an agent, sometimes we are requested to remove shoes. Typically it is on meticulously clean homes. Most buyers don't mind, some grumble, but I have never had a buyer say they refuse to take their shoes off. It is the sellers home. They have the right to ask people to remove their shoes. When my children were babies and crawling around on the floor, no one was allowed to wear shoes in my house. I simply didn't want my babies crawling around in what was on the bottom of people's shoes, it could be anything! Being in thousands of homes in my career, I can tell you, I have seen floors that have been damaged because of a woman's high heel. There is no doubt about the mark. It looks like a nail head path of holes. It is from a heel where the little rubber thing has come off the shoe . Most people don't ask you to take shoes off because they are afraid you will damage the floors,they don't want the outside dirt on the floor. There are some cultures where it is a must. But the bottom line is,if there were signs and most likely this agent was told when making the appointment to please remove shoes, it should have been done....See MoreHelp... discovered attic mold on our dream home during inspection
Comments (17)Mold.... many of these situations are just another sector of the economy making a living off real estate. I have seem some ridiculous proposals to get rid of mold that was actually mildew because the idiot inspectors (IQ that matched their ages) could not tell the difference. In one of our houses a "remediation specialist" said to me solemnly, "I'm sorry to get so emotional about mold, ma'am, but mold killed my brother." That same genius also told me that mold spores cannot be killed by any "known chemical." Nonetheless, he proposed to remediate our "mold" for several thousand dollars. The actual mildewed area was on a single piece of drywall and partially covered an area about 8" x 10". The culprit was a leaky pipe from the heat recovery unit between a water heater and hvac equipment. Not all mold contains toxins. Actually, not much of it does, but that hasn't stopped people from making a cottage industry out of public ignorance....See MoreIs the buyer's agent normally there during the inspection?
Comments (36)It looks like additional useless bureaucracy, foisted on these agents. I had a mountain of such useless forms. Soon they'll add a form to disclose that the house is on a street and have the new buyer sign off that they realize there is a street there and on said street travels automobiles that could possibly run over children, the elderly or wayward dogs, not to mention pollute the air in front of the house, make noise, and possibly OMG park in front of the house. Then there's the future form to disclose that critters and varmints could possibly trespass in the back yard of the house and leave their droppings, eat the fruit off your trees, skunk spray your dog, kill your cats, possibly come into your house by way of doggy door and otherwise terrorize you. And don't forget the disclosure form for letting you know that you have other humans who live next to you, in front of you and behind you, commonly referred to as "neighbors" and that these neighbors could possibly offend you with their cooking odors, their noisy parties, their scanty attire, their unkempt gardens, and their dogs who might poop in your front yard. I'm sure there are other "disclosures" I've not thought of but that the California government is discussing at this very moment, all in the name of giving me, the home buyer, as much heads up as possible about all the nuisances that may face me in my life here in the beautiful Golden State....See Moreky114
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