chrisgriffith on October 26th, 2011

Condo Inspections, AS-IS Contracts and Nit Pickery It’s mail day! There have been a variety of question regarding home inspections from both buyers and sellers. Here’s the latest and greatest from the mail bag that I’m able to squeeze into six-hundred-ish words or less: Question: The home we’re interested in is offered as-is with the [...]

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chrisgriffith on March 31st, 2010

The Aftermath – After the Warranty Expires The last couple of home or condos that I’ve sold have all had one thing in common. They’ve been fairly new, not lived in or barely lived in and nearly every defect that showed up during the home inspection was defective from the day the property received its [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 30th, 2008

Bugs, Mold and Missing  Refrigerators You know how those foreclosure homes and short sales homes often don’t have a refrigerator? Where do those refrigerators go? Sucked up by aliens? Stolen and sold on Craigslist? I see it all the time. The fridge is gone and cha-ching the buyers think, “There’s $1,500 we’re going to need”. [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 18th, 2008

  Fixer Upper or Money Pit? You can’t judge a book by its cover and you can’t judge the condition of a home just by how it looks either.    Ask any real estate agent that has been in business for a while the most unusual tale they can share about a home inspection.  The [...]

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chrisgriffith on June 9th, 2008

When Silence is Golden So what happens when you tangle with a Bonitian like me? You get tazered, that’s what. You’d have to personally know me to know that I have joked with a couple of the guys at the office, lunged at them and put the prongs on them and said bzzzt. OK, I [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 12th, 2008

The Naples Lemon House The last few Friday’s I’ve run photos of mailboxes for the “mailbox series” on my blog. Occasionally I’ll go out for a drive or just take a turn down a street to see if I can find a candidate for a post. While driving through the Vanderbilt and the Naples Park [...]

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