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Home Inspector - Superior Home Inspections - Greater Albuquerque Area - InterNACHI 10041206

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2013 

It was a beautiful day today; we sat outside on the rear deck at Tarpon Turtle on Lake Tarpon. Out hostess with the mostest, Barbara-Jo Roberts did her usual awesome job of selecting the perfect place to meet up! Toni & Craig Weidman, Silvia Dukes, Steven Pahl, Petra Norris & Frank Laisch were so...
08/21/2013
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A Baptist pastor was presenting a children's sermon. During the sermon, he asked the children if they knew what the resurrection was. Now, asking questions during children's sermons is crucial, but at the same time, asking children questions in front of a congregation can also be very dangerous. ...
08/20/2013
Florida, the land of Uniform Mitigation Verification Reports. Do them 5 or 6 times a week. Form OIR-B1-1802, is the form insurance companies use from the Office of Insurance Regulation to determine if your house meets the Miami Dade-Broward County South Florida building codes. After devastating H...
08/09/2013
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It happens oh so often. I go to a home for an inspection and find things that make me say to myself "What the heck were they thinking?" I mean, how do they come up with this stuff, and at what point do they rationalize in their head that makes them think, "This is a great idea" The other day I ra...
08/07/2013
Have you ever wondered about other professions and how they conduct themselves out of the workforce? Does your auto mechanic drive to work in a beat up old piece of junk that smokes and backfires when he pulls into his work parking lot? Then he proceeds to tell you what's wrong with your car and ...
08/04/2013
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I am finding here in this area anyway that Banks are doing more and more repairs and upgrades to get rid of their "dogs". A few days ago I inspected one that was a joy, new roof, HVAC system, painted inside and out. The one yesterday was all window dressing. They indeed replaced the kitchen appli...
08/03/2013
I had no early morning inspections yesterday, so time to catch up on some fun things like... cutting the grass! Not my most favorite thing to do, but satisfying when you are finished. I had just made a couple of passes in the front and as I was coming back I looked up to see four Sandhill Cranes ...
08/01/2013
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Sometimes when you need to accomplish something and you are caught in a bind, you do things that are out of the norm. Uncle Bob does that every day! I had an inspection today on a vacant house, a foreclosure. Those are going away pretty fast! I would say that in the past few years, over 50% of my...
07/31/2013
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