Jeff Prince's (safeathomeinspect) Blog

Hello everyone . Had a tough day yesterday. My trusted beloved family dog Haley of 11years had to be put to sleep. Shewas a great dog a big black Labrador with a heart of gold. She developed a bone tumor in her front leg and when she was walking with my children her leg fractured. We did have som...

Hi everybody I am not MIA! Wow I think this is the longest I have been without posting. Well my daughters start cheerleading and with the games a,getting ready for school to start and beeing much busier than I thought in August I guess the blog suffers. Well I will try harder to blog srry I have ...

Hi everyone Well it is august. So far so good . I am expecting a little drop , but I  have a feeling it will not be to bad. August is always Ho -Hum. I think with tax credit it will be busier than we think. I think it will be nice and steady already have a few scheduled for next week. Would have ...

Hi everybody Been a while since my last post. Have been busy the market looks really good well compared to last year. I am just wondering how august will be? Usually it is a Ho-Hum month. I already have an inspection booked for aug. so I guess that is a good start. We will just see how it goes. I...

Hello Everybody Well it feels like May both temperature and business wise. That is a good thing. The weather here in Chicago will probably not crack 70 degrees ! Crazy for the middle of July. I have been fairly busy and I am thinking it might continue because first time buyers want that $8000. Fr...

Hi everybody Did an inspection the other day typical raised ranch everything was looking good. went up in the attic the rafters were steel . Wow. Don't have to worry about a tornado with this one. I noticed on the outside that there were two extra ground rods.  Did not really think anything of it...

Learned some new interesting facts about newly built hot water heaters. Government issued energy saving mandates have reduced expected tank life by up 2/3rds. Thanks to more government meddling you will have to replace your water heater more frequently so you can save 1.5% in energy costs. Does n...

Hello to everyone . Where is summer ? I don't know. My kids would like to go swimming some time this year! It has bee so chilly there have been a few inspections where I could not test the A/C units because it has been below 65 degrees here in the Chicago area. Very rainy one good thing about tha...

Things are really picking up srry i don't have alot of time. I finally think we are turning that corner. I could be singing a different tune in a couple days LOL. I hope not but we will take as it comes. I hope everybody else is finally getting busy. If this keeps up my grass will be about 2 feet...

Hi all Market seems a little hot and cold right now. Last week not much for me at least, the week before busy busy busy. Hopefully this week we get busy again. The weather was good this weekend and usually when the weather is good business is good. It seems better out there, but still have not se...