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Hire the Right Inspector before Sealing the Deal on a Real Estate Home for Sale

By , 26 February, 2010, No Comment
Hire the Right Inspector before Sealing the Deal on a Real Estate Home for Sale

Before closing the deal on a real estate home for sale, staging a home inspection to know the home’s value and get acquainted with its shortcomings is de rigueur. But before contracting inspector du jour, make sure that he or she is indeed the real deal. Many states, New Mexico for instance, don’t have any requirement to being a home inspector. So to spare you from making the huge mistake of hiring a charlatan out to make easy money at your expense, follow these simple and easy tips.

1. State license is never enough; check for affiliations. 

Every state in the country issues licenses for home inspectors after training. But it begs the question: how extensive is the training? The answer: not extensive enough. It’s even possible that the training is so minimal that it becomes absolutely ineffective when evaluating a 

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Consider moving to Florida

By , 10 January, 2010, No Comment

The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform. The emergent portion of the platform was created during the Eocene to Oligocene as the Gulf Trough filled with silts, clays, and sands. Flora and fauna began appearing during the Miocene. No land animals were present in Florida prior to the Miocene.

The largest deposits of potash in the country are found in Florida.

Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used by residents. The limestone is topped with sandy soils deposited as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell. During the last glacial period, lower sea levels and a drier climate revealed a much wider peninsula, largely savanna. The Everglades, an enormously wide, very slow-flowing river encompasses the southern tip of the peninsula.

Because Florida is not located near any tectonic plate boundaries, earthquakes are very rare, but not totally unknown. In January, 1879, a shock occurred near St. Augustine. There were reports of heavy shaking that knocked plaster from walls and articles from shelves. Similar effects were noted at Daytona Beach 50 miles (80 km) south. The tremor was felt as far south as Tampa and as far north as Savannah, Georgia. In January 1880, Cuba was the center of two strong earthquakes that sent severe shock waves through the city of Key West, Florida. Another earthquake centered outside Florida was the 1886 Charleston earthquake. The shock was felt throughout northern Florida, ringing church bells at St. Augustine and severely jolting other towns along that section of Florida’s east coast. Jacksonville residents felt many of the strong aftershocks that occurred in September, October, and November 1886. As recently as 2006, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake centered about 260 miles (420 km) southwest of Tampa in the Gulf of Mexico sent shock waves through southwest and central Florida. The earthquake was too small to trigger a tsunami and no damage was reported.

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