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Man who shot himself and ex-wife in 2008 dies
San Diego Union Tribune
Frank Bass worked as a home inspector and property refurbisher. He was never charged with a crime related to the attack because of his medical condition.

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Actor Vince Vaughn has reduced the rental asking price of his three-bedroom River North town house from $7,800 a month to $6,900.

New Jersey Home Inspections
BigNews.biz (press release)
Only an experienced home inspector can find out the hidden faults associated by the building, which are often overlooked by the amateurs. ...

Know-it-all agency addresses home ownership
SILive.com
Presenters walk participants through a four-week course where they hear from a lawyer, loan officer and home inspector. The $100 course fee, ...

Bleacher Report
2010 Composite Fantasy Baseball Closer Rankings: Everything in One Click
Bleacher Report
Our parents, friends, bank officials, home inspector, Realtor, and numerous others were included in the process. We didn't want to leave anything to chance, ...

Business briefly: March 10
Wicked Local Plymouth
A mortgage banker, real estate broker, home inspector and lawyer will assist in presenting materials that will provide participants with up to date ...

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Osceola Sentinel Tribune
Home inspections help you sell
Osceola Sentinel Tribune
Buyers want to know the home they're considering is safe and sound, and the best way to establish that is to hire a home inspector. ...

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Kings Heath nursing home patients were unshaven with dirty hair and long ...
BirminghamMail.net
Lynette Ranson, who is a care home inspector for the Care Quality Commission (formerly the National Care Standards Commission, (NCSC) said there was no ...

Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Whatever the cause, the solution to ice dams remains the same
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Zolton Cohen is a Kalamazoo-based newspaper columnist and former American Society of Home Inspectors-certified home inspector. Write to Zolton B. Cohen, ...

Use our guide to bring home a sofa that's your living room's Mr. Right

Buying a new sofa—one of the largest and most-used pieces of furniture in your home, scene of much reading, TV-watching, snoozing and everything else-ing—is not a task to take on lightly.

Former Chicago Blackhawk to take loss on 16th-floor unit in Lancaster building

Former Chicago Blackhawks left wing Martin Havlat, who left the team and signed a six-year, $30 million contract last summer with the Minnesota Wild, has reduced the asking price of his 16th-floor condo unit in the Lancaster building to $725,000, and clearly anticipates taking a loss on it.

New procedures have created problems for lenders, buyers

Q My husband and I just signed documents to refinance our home. The entire process was long and frustrating. The appraisal was done a month ago, but the lender never notified us that the appraisal value was lower than what we needed to refinance. We found this out almost one month afterward and only after we called to ask how things were going. The communication with the lender was extremely poor, but that wasn't the biggest problem.

Q. I am on a new board of a 28-unit condominium association in Chicago. The building has seen a variety of damage to units. We are trying to update our rules and regulations to spell out the board's responsibilities in these situations.

A look at when the landlord is responsible or tenant must pay for work

Q: We have lived in our apartment, a ground-level unit in a new complex, for several years. Now, my husband, who has multiple sclerosis, needs to use a wheelchair. Several of the doorways are too narrow to let the chair go through; I have to help him up, support him, then fold and reopen the chair on the other side.

A $35 million addition is being planned at Smith Crossing, a retirement community in south suburban Orland Park. The 200,000-square-foot addition will have 106 new apartments, plus a new common area with a theater, arts studio, multipurpose room and two formal gardens. The existing fitness center will also be expanded.

Split council adopts new residential code
Waukegan News Sun
A vote on an ordinance to create the Office of Building Commissioner and Manufactured Home Inspector was tabled for further clarification of job duties and ...

Business profile: A Pro Home Inspection Services
Chambersburg Public Opinion
Staff: The business is operated by certified home inspector William Fennel, CHI/PHI, and marketing manager Lacey Shearer. Background: A Pro Home Inspection ...

Foundations: Don't wait until you hear the creaking
Seattle Times
"My home inspector said my house had no problems," said Steven Derse, who bought his house in Nashville, Tenn., in 2002. "Then it started to move and fell ...

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Find the best contractors when putting your home on the market
NewsOK.com
Engage the services of a home inspector to catalog your issues. It should be quite easy for you and your listing agent to go through your home and identify ...

Inspection milestone
Alton Telegraph
Just a few years after choosing to switch careers and become a home inspector in 1993, he found he was steadily finding work and decided to start counting ...