June 30, 2025 • 15 mins
Home maintenance inspections are crucial for catching small problems before they become expensive disasters, just like regular car maintenance prevents breakdowns despite houses having far more components than vehicles.
• Regular maintenance inspections recommended every 2-3 years, coinciding with EPA's radon testing recommendations
• New houses aren't immune to problems—our 10-month-old home already needed bathroom fan replacement and furnace repairs
• Women typically have 30% more olfactory nerves, making them better at detecting problems through smell
• One client's mysterious illness was traced to a disconnected sump pump causing hidden mold growth
• Pre-listing inspections save money—replacing GFCIs yourself costs about $20 each versus $120+ when requested during buyer's inspection
• Many homeowners don't know basic maintenance requirements like monthly GFCI testing or water shutoff valve locations
• Maintenance inspections serve educational purposes for first-time homeowners or elderly individuals who need assistance
Call a professional inspection company to perform a maintenance inspection. It provides you with a report and a prioritized list of issues to address, ensuring your home stays in better condition than when you bought it.
To learn more about Habitation Investigation, the Three-time Winner of the Best Home Inspection Company in the Midwest Plus the Winner of Consumer Choice Award for Columbus Ohio visit Home Inspection Columbus Ohio - Habitation Investigation (homeinspectionsinohio.com)
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Standing Out in Ohio podcast,
where we discuss topics,upcoming events, news and
predictions with real estateprofessionals and entrepreneurs.
Listen and learn what makestheir companies and themselves
stand out and gain advantagesover the competition and gain
market share.
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(00:23):
to stand out from the crowd.
Now here's your host, jim.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Habitation investigation is the way to go
for a home inspection in Ohio.
Trusted licensed homeinspectors for your needs.
From radon to mold towarranties For a great home
inspection, you really can't gowrong.
(00:51):
Visit homeinspectionsinohiocom.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hey everybody, welcome to the Standing Out of
the House podcast.
This is Jim, and, of course,laura, the office goddess is
here.
Hi everyone.
All right, laura, we shouldhave a guest.
We have one person that wantsto be a guest.
He's a mold remediator.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yes, I need to get a time set up with him.
He's been really busy.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, everybody's been busy and we're squeezing
this in.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We have a few moments today, but we need to get him
in.
But what was it we're talkingabout was the importance of
having maintenance done in yourhouse.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And keep an eye on your house.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
As is evidenced by our house, by our house.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yes, home inspections are not for just when you're
purchasing the house.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It is when you buy the house Maintenance
inspections throughout.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, yeah, maintenance inspections, I'd say
like every two to three years.
What was the epa tell you for?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
radon.
Epa says every two years forradon to have your, your house
tested to me that would probablybe a good time to do a
maintenance inspection and thehome which maintenance, which is
basically a whole houseinspection right maybe we don't
test the appliances or theoutlets, depending no, no well,
if we've already done it onceand we're coming back that, do
(02:08):
it again.
You're still doing it again,really, yeah, we did a
inspection for some of the otherday.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Uh, the only thing we did not test was the kitchen
appliances.
I got all these working likethey should.
He's like, yep, okay, that'sall.
I mean he knows more than us,right, than we do of his
appliances are working.
We did check if there's a highloop for the dishwasher and
checked on where the range hoodvented out and checked for leaks
(02:34):
.
Of course, well, we're going tocheck for leaks, right, but the
maintenance inspection, it'simportant to do that, I'd say,
every two years, just like withyour radon.
Right Good idea to do that.
So here's my analogy that Ihave about a house and cars yes,
okay, very good one andactually I'd use this the other
day with some lady a buyer shewas she was good she was
(02:57):
concerned about uh, it was anolder house, decent shape, but
you know, no house is perfect,even brand new ones not perfect.
So there are a few issues there.
And she's like well, I justdon't want things to, you know,
have you know repairs andmaintenance, things like that?
And I go well, look at your car, you, you expect your car to
(03:21):
have trouble every, every youknow.
Maybe maybe once a year, twoyears.
Year and a half, something'sgoing to happen.
You need to get your take careof your car.
Well, definitely, oil change acouple times a year probably, or
at least you should be A coupletimes a year getting your oil
changed, filter replaced, tires,brakes.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Transmission fluid.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You expect things to break down.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
She's like yeah, I'm like your house has so many more
moving parts than your car does.
Why is that you?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
should not take expectation.
You should expect issues if youalso pop up and she's like yeah
, she's like well, thank you forthat, because that put in
perspective right, because shenever thought about like that.
I think a lot of people don'tthink about that.
Your car does not have as manyparts as your house does no our
house brand new what is?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
it 10 months old.
Maybe we officially moved inseptember 1st we really didn't
have an official day.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
We owned it the whole time because we didn't.
There's no closing for us,right?
But?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
september 1st is when I officially transferred
everything from the post officeand everything from the old
address to here gotcha that's.
That's why I consider that theofficial move-in date okay, so
new house.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I've already already replaced the bathroom fan.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That fan stopped working A couple times.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You've got it repaired a little bit Wow If you
heard that there's athunderstorm in the background
here.
So kind of tells you what daywe're recording this perhaps.
But the fan would just workreally slow and then it would
work fine.
It did that for about a monthand then it just gave up the
ghost.
So I went to Home depot orlowe's I don't know where I went
(04:59):
, but I bought a new fan motor,stuck that in there.
First time ever replaced one ofthose it's not that bad but
brand new house.
Something happened.
It got fixed right.
Our furnace has a leak in itfrom the condensation from their
conditioning.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, like the bottom pan or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, most likely.
There's just a little somethingblocking the condensation line.
Really an easy fix.
But we're going to have thefurnace guy come in and take
care of it but it's a newfurnace yeah, he put it in
probably right about a year,guys.
He put in about a month or sobefore we.
(05:38):
Now he put it in it was acouple months before before we
moved in, so it's probably aboutthis time of year may or june
it was.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It was very close, yeah so we may, when he comes
out, just have him do a serviceon it completely.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
He may as well.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, and just be done with it, and then we'll
just get it serviced once a year.
So we'll just know every June,july, we have somebody, we have
them come out.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, so right now, if it's so hot out and the thing
leaking, oh, it's been pushingit hard.
We still have the furnace onfor air conditioning.
We still have that on, but wehave towels around the bottom to
help absorb and prevent anyreal issues.
We're living on a slab house,so it's like it's not going to
damage anything really.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
No, but once we get that to stop dripping and we can
put fans on underneath the woodnot the wood, but the plank
boards we have that Vinylplanking.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
LVP yeah, vinyl plank boards Yep and dry those out.
We have that Vinyl planking.
Lvp yeah, we have the vinylplanking, so there's nothing
that's going to get damagedthere.
But of course you don't want itmoist around there, but there's
really no moisture touchingwood or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
No, it's not going to rot or anything, nothing
terrible.
But Megan had forgotten lastnight because she was worried
about that.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
She's, she was like but, mom, I'm like remember slab
concrete.
Oh, that's right, thank gosh,she was worried about the wood.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, she was, she was learning, she's learning,
home inspector's daughter homeinspector's daughter.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, but yeah, many things happen.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They need, they need taken care of also do you
remember that one guy that wewent out to?
Um, it was a family and she'dbeen complaining that you know,
when the air conditioner came onor the furnace came on, she
just didn't feel well and she'slike there's something going on,
but we just have no clue whatit is and within what.
Five minutes the we figured outthat the sump pump hose wasn't
(07:27):
connected and the sump pump,every time the sump pump kicked
on, it, was kicking it back intothe finished area of the
basement, and so that wholebedroom beside where that sump
pump was was just completely asodden mess with mold underneath
the carpet, and it was why shewas getting sick.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They had an extra roll of carpet up against that
wall which may hit it a littlebit on the, because it was a
finished basement they hit it alittle bit.
But, man, you have to take alook at your house and women,
was it 30 more olfactory nerves?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
So yeah, so we smell things faster guys, if you're,
if your girlfriend, mom, wife islike I smell something funny.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Listen to your woman.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They smell something weird.
They probably do.
They probably do.
There's always that onepercentage that's just like all
right, that's kind of a littlecrazy, but Nope, most likely
it's legit.
They actually do smellsomething that you as a guy
cannot, well, and if you don't?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
listen to them right away and you keep living there.
What we have found is that itusually goes for a few months
with the woman complaining andcomplaining and complaining, and
then all of a sudden, the guygets sick and goes oh, you might
actually be right, I'm notfeeling well either.
Well, if you'd have listened toher four, four months ago, yeah
wouldn't be feeling crappy nowwell, a lot of guys are not fast
(08:47):
learners you said it, not me Idid.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, I say, some guys are not fast and this is
recorded, ladies yep, but butmaintenance, maintenance.
You need to expect thingshappen to the house, which which
comes around to prepping your,your, your agent, prepping your
client what to expect whenthey're getting their potential
home inspected.
They should not.
(09:11):
They should expect there to beissues.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, back to that one woman that I spent the hour
on that didn't speak English.
So like I've had calls in thepast, okay, where people have
had water lines that froze orthey had a pipe that burst and
they did not know to turn offthe water supply valve at all in
any way, shape or form and weretotally clueless.
(09:35):
So when I was going through thereport with that woman
yesterday I'm like, okay, that'syour water supply valve,
because I think when I read thereport there wasn't a supply on
like the toilets or a sink orsomething like that.
So I'm like if you've gotsomething that happens, make
sure you turn that off, becausethat will give everything that
will give you time to get helpand have somebody come out and
(09:57):
fix it and it won't damage yourhouse anymore.
So like I tried to explain thatto her a little bit because
we've had problems with that Newpeople coming in just had no
clue.
So like a maintenance inspectionif you've got an old parent, if
you have a kid and this istheir first house because our
daughter bought her house andshe's still kind of clueless on
(10:18):
stuff and will occasionally callus but have a maintenance
inspection.
They're also educational.
Here's where your your umfilter goes in your air
conditioner.
Here's how often you shouldchange that.
Here's how you should do this.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
If you already own the house, you should know where
the filter is already.
But you you'll be surprisedbecause almost nobody knows
they're supposed to test thatgfci outlet every month they
look at me like yeah, everymonth was supposed to test that
GFCI outlet every month.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
They look at me like yeah every month.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
you're supposed to test that, Otherwise it might
start sticking and they won'ttrip when you maybe really need
them to.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
So that's one thing.
If you're a seller, hint, hint,wink, wink, nudge, nudge, check
your GFCI outlets and make surethat they work, because you're
just one test away from a homeinspection and that not working
and you have to replace it.
I did a pre-listed inspectionthe other day, right, okay and
there were.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There were at least two, maybe three gfcis that
would not trip with the tester,and so at this point, the guy
who seemed pretty handy, it'llcost him about 20 each in some
time right, so you can just swapthem out if we, if we found
that out during the homeinspection, it's going to be a
request to Ramney, and they'regoing to want a receipt from
some electrician to come out.
(11:32):
I'm just going to guess he'llcharge you $120 for each one.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Well, and then not only that, but let's say we go
back out to this house andanother inspector does that and
has no clue that this was apre-listing, all they inspector
does that and has no clue thatthis was a pre-listing all they
care about when they test thatdoes that trip.
Is it grounded?
Is it working correctly?
Is it wired correctly?
Yep, okay, on to the next itdoesn't that we don't care who
fixed it, as long as it's doneright no inspectors, we don't
(11:56):
care, we, we don't, we don'tknow code.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
This is not a code inspection, but we look for
function.
Is this working like it shouldand is it, you know, by the time
it was built?
Is it holding up?
Over that span of time?
We did a house well.
You and I had a house over 200years old.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, that was so old A couple weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
There were some weird things in that place, but
somebody did something like 70years ago Like wow, it's still
here.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But you still need to get that out because
something's not right there's a,found there's a weird
foundation repair.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, on this one a couple different things that
they did.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Very odd, that would like yeah, no, no, no, I'm gonna
get that, get that looked atyou.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Think about anything else on this one?
Just yeah, you need to.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Actually, this is a really good idea for like
father's Day or Mother's Day ifyou've got older parents, or if
you've got an estate that youwant to have an idea for what's
going on before it gets sold, ifyou've got a kid that's kind of
clueless and doesn't knowanything, or if you're just too
(13:05):
freaking busy because life sucksand you don't have time to get
into your attic or your crawlspace or look around, and and
maybe not only do you not havetime, but you have no clue what
you're looking for call aninspection company.
Have us come out and do amaintenance inspection for you.
It gives you your report and itgives you your honeydew list
and then you can work on thatand then by the time you're done
(13:25):
, if you do decide to sell yourhouse, it's in better shape than
when you bought it becauseyou've kept up on it.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
All right, I got to tell you that would suck as a
Father's Day gift.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You would not want Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, no, no.
Let me explain this.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
For like an older father.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Like an older, like, I'm still gonna explain this.
Oh my god, here we go, ladies.
Oh, now they're prepping tosell it.
Explain on it, okay, cool, youmay be saving some headache down
the road.
Regular old dad really doesn'twant to come up.
Somebody else, come in theplace, go.
Hey, there's something wrongwith your house.
All right, I'm saying typical,average guy.
He definitely does not want tohave some strange dude.
Come on, give him a list ofchores to do that his wife is
(14:07):
aware of whatever all right, anyguys listen to this make a
comment
Speaker 4 (14:18):
we need to have a running commentary between the
women and the men I think itshows karen because he doesn't
have to get in and do any ofthat crap.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I agree for an elderly parent.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Like an elderly parent for Father's Day gift.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right, I'm talking somebody who's not
elderly, all those people, man.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Really honey.
So you think some dude who hasabsolutely no bloody freaking
clue how to like oh I don't knowchange out a doorknob, is going
to have an idea of what he'slooking at when he goes to the
attic or the crawl space?
You don't think that personwould actually?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
need to have an inspection.
It's going to depend on the guy.
But you said develop yourhoneydew list no.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Ladies help me out.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Guys, do you want a honey-do list?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Some guys will, some guys like that, but they'll know
what they're fixing and they'llknow how to fix it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
With YouTube, internet, you can learn anything
nowadays.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Right, and now they'll know how to do that, and
that will give them more skills.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
If you want to add a comment, go Laura's right, laura
comment go laura's rightlaura's wrong.
Jim's right, laura's right weguys don't want a whole bunch of
honey do list.
Now, guys, will I guys have noproblem go.
Hey, I think there's somethingwrong.
My addy, can you come help youknow, clarify with me what that
is.
I think most guys would be allright with that, but for the
(15:45):
goal of getting a honeydew list,no, no.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
So anyway, give a comment please thank you
everybody, ladies, for the help.
Bye.
Welcome to the Standing Out in Ohio podcast,
where we discuss topics,upcoming events, news and
predictions with real estateprofessionals and entrepreneurs.
Listen and learn what makestheir companies and themselves
stand out and gain advantagesover the competition and gain
market share.
Subscribe for the latest newsand discussion on what it takes
(00:23):
to stand out from the crowd.
Now here's your host, jim.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Habitation investigation is the way to go
for a home inspection in Ohio.
Trusted licensed homeinspectors for your needs.
From radon to mold towarranties For a great home
inspection, you really can't gowrong.
(00:51):
Visit homeinspectionsinohiocom.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hey everybody, welcome to the Standing Out of
the House podcast.
This is Jim, and, of course,laura, the office goddess is
here.
Hi everyone.
All right, laura, we shouldhave a guest.
We have one person that wantsto be a guest.
He's a mold remediator.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yes, I need to get a time set up with him.
He's been really busy.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, everybody's been busy and we're squeezing
this in.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
We have a few moments today, but we need to get him
in.
But what was it we're talkingabout was the importance of
having maintenance done in yourhouse.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And keep an eye on your house.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
As is evidenced by our house, by our house.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yes, home inspections are not for just when you're
purchasing the house.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It is when you buy the house Maintenance
inspections throughout.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, yeah, maintenance inspections, I'd say
like every two to three years.
What was the epa tell you for?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
radon.
Epa says every two years forradon to have your, your house
tested to me that would probablybe a good time to do a
maintenance inspection and thehome which maintenance, which is
basically a whole houseinspection right maybe we don't
test the appliances or theoutlets, depending no, no well,
if we've already done it onceand we're coming back that, do
(02:08):
it again.
You're still doing it again,really, yeah, we did a
inspection for some of the otherday.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Uh, the only thing we did not test was the kitchen
appliances.
I got all these working likethey should.
He's like, yep, okay, that'sall.
I mean he knows more than us,right, than we do of his
appliances are working.
We did check if there's a highloop for the dishwasher and
checked on where the range hoodvented out and checked for leaks
(02:34):
.
Of course, well, we're going tocheck for leaks, right, but the
maintenance inspection, it'simportant to do that, I'd say,
every two years, just like withyour radon.
Right Good idea to do that.
So here's my analogy that Ihave about a house and cars yes,
okay, very good one andactually I'd use this the other
day with some lady a buyer shewas she was good she was
(02:57):
concerned about uh, it was anolder house, decent shape, but
you know, no house is perfect,even brand new ones not perfect.
So there are a few issues there.
And she's like well, I justdon't want things to, you know,
have you know repairs andmaintenance, things like that?
And I go well, look at your car, you, you expect your car to
(03:21):
have trouble every, every youknow.
Maybe maybe once a year, twoyears.
Year and a half, something'sgoing to happen.
You need to get your take careof your car.
Well, definitely, oil change acouple times a year probably, or
at least you should be A coupletimes a year getting your oil
changed, filter replaced, tires,brakes.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Transmission fluid.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You expect things to break down.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
She's like yeah, I'm like your house has so many more
moving parts than your car does.
Why is that you?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
should not take expectation.
You should expect issues if youalso pop up and she's like yeah
, she's like well, thank you forthat, because that put in
perspective right, because shenever thought about like that.
I think a lot of people don'tthink about that.
Your car does not have as manyparts as your house does no our
house brand new what is?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
it 10 months old.
Maybe we officially moved inseptember 1st we really didn't
have an official day.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
We owned it the whole time because we didn't.
There's no closing for us,right?
But?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
september 1st is when I officially transferred
everything from the post officeand everything from the old
address to here gotcha that's.
That's why I consider that theofficial move-in date okay, so
new house.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I've already already replaced the bathroom fan.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That fan stopped working A couple times.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You've got it repaired a little bit Wow If you
heard that there's athunderstorm in the background
here.
So kind of tells you what daywe're recording this perhaps.
But the fan would just workreally slow and then it would
work fine.
It did that for about a monthand then it just gave up the
ghost.
So I went to Home depot orlowe's I don't know where I went
(04:59):
, but I bought a new fan motor,stuck that in there.
First time ever replaced one ofthose it's not that bad but
brand new house.
Something happened.
It got fixed right.
Our furnace has a leak in itfrom the condensation from their
conditioning.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, like the bottom pan or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, most likely.
There's just a little somethingblocking the condensation line.
Really an easy fix.
But we're going to have thefurnace guy come in and take
care of it but it's a newfurnace yeah, he put it in
probably right about a year,guys.
He put in about a month or sobefore we.
(05:38):
Now he put it in it was acouple months before before we
moved in, so it's probably aboutthis time of year may or june
it was.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It was very close, yeah so we may, when he comes
out, just have him do a serviceon it completely.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
He may as well.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, and just be done with it, and then we'll
just get it serviced once a year.
So we'll just know every June,july, we have somebody, we have
them come out.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, so right now, if it's so hot out and the thing
leaking, oh, it's been pushingit hard.
We still have the furnace onfor air conditioning.
We still have that on, but wehave towels around the bottom to
help absorb and prevent anyreal issues.
We're living on a slab house,so it's like it's not going to
damage anything really.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
No, but once we get that to stop dripping and we can
put fans on underneath the woodnot the wood, but the plank
boards we have that Vinylplanking.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
LVP yeah, vinyl plank boards Yep and dry those out.
We have that Vinyl planking.
Lvp yeah, we have the vinylplanking, so there's nothing
that's going to get damagedthere.
But of course you don't want itmoist around there, but there's
really no moisture touchingwood or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
No, it's not going to rot or anything, nothing
terrible.
But Megan had forgotten lastnight because she was worried
about that.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
She's, she was like but, mom, I'm like remember slab
concrete.
Oh, that's right, thank gosh,she was worried about the wood.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Yeah, she was, she was learning, she's learning,
home inspector's daughter homeinspector's daughter.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, but yeah, many things happen.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They need, they need taken care of also do you
remember that one guy that wewent out to?
Um, it was a family and she'dbeen complaining that you know,
when the air conditioner came onor the furnace came on, she
just didn't feel well and she'slike there's something going on,
but we just have no clue whatit is and within what.
Five minutes the we figured outthat the sump pump hose wasn't
(07:27):
connected and the sump pump,every time the sump pump kicked
on, it, was kicking it back intothe finished area of the
basement, and so that wholebedroom beside where that sump
pump was was just completely asodden mess with mold underneath
the carpet, and it was why shewas getting sick.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They had an extra roll of carpet up against that
wall which may hit it a littlebit on the, because it was a
finished basement they hit it alittle bit.
But, man, you have to take alook at your house and women,
was it 30 more olfactory nerves?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
So yeah, so we smell things faster guys, if you're,
if your girlfriend, mom, wife islike I smell something funny.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Listen to your woman.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They smell something weird.
They probably do.
They probably do.
There's always that onepercentage that's just like all
right, that's kind of a littlecrazy, but Nope, most likely
it's legit.
They actually do smellsomething that you as a guy
cannot, well, and if you don't?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
listen to them right away and you keep living there.
What we have found is that itusually goes for a few months
with the woman complaining andcomplaining and complaining, and
then all of a sudden, the guygets sick and goes oh, you might
actually be right, I'm notfeeling well either.
Well, if you'd have listened toher four, four months ago, yeah
wouldn't be feeling crappy nowwell, a lot of guys are not fast
(08:47):
learners you said it, not me Idid.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, I say, some guys are not fast and this is
recorded, ladies yep, but butmaintenance, maintenance.
You need to expect thingshappen to the house, which which
comes around to prepping your,your, your agent, prepping your
client what to expect whenthey're getting their potential
home inspected.
They should not.
(09:11):
They should expect there to beissues.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, back to that one woman that I spent the hour
on that didn't speak English.
So like I've had calls in thepast, okay, where people have
had water lines that froze orthey had a pipe that burst and
they did not know to turn offthe water supply valve at all in
any way, shape or form and weretotally clueless.
(09:35):
So when I was going through thereport with that woman
yesterday I'm like, okay, that'syour water supply valve,
because I think when I read thereport there wasn't a supply on
like the toilets or a sink orsomething like that.
So I'm like if you've gotsomething that happens, make
sure you turn that off, becausethat will give everything that
will give you time to get helpand have somebody come out and
(09:57):
fix it and it won't damage yourhouse anymore.
So like I tried to explain thatto her a little bit because
we've had problems with that Newpeople coming in just had no
clue.
So like a maintenance inspectionif you've got an old parent, if
you have a kid and this istheir first house because our
daughter bought her house andshe's still kind of clueless on
(10:18):
stuff and will occasionally callus but have a maintenance
inspection.
They're also educational.
Here's where your your umfilter goes in your air
conditioner.
Here's how often you shouldchange that.
Here's how you should do this.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
If you already own the house, you should know where
the filter is already.
But you you'll be surprisedbecause almost nobody knows
they're supposed to test thatgfci outlet every month they
look at me like yeah, everymonth was supposed to test that
GFCI outlet every month.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
They look at me like yeah every month.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
you're supposed to test that, Otherwise it might
start sticking and they won'ttrip when you maybe really need
them to.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
So that's one thing.
If you're a seller, hint, hint,wink, wink, nudge, nudge, check
your GFCI outlets and make surethat they work, because you're
just one test away from a homeinspection and that not working
and you have to replace it.
I did a pre-listed inspectionthe other day, right, okay and
there were.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
There were at least two, maybe three gfcis that
would not trip with the tester,and so at this point, the guy
who seemed pretty handy, it'llcost him about 20 each in some
time right, so you can just swapthem out if we, if we found
that out during the homeinspection, it's going to be a
request to Ramney, and they'regoing to want a receipt from
some electrician to come out.
(11:32):
I'm just going to guess he'llcharge you $120 for each one.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Well, and then not only that, but let's say we go
back out to this house andanother inspector does that and
has no clue that this was apre-listing, all they inspector
does that and has no clue thatthis was a pre-listing all they
care about when they test thatdoes that trip.
Is it grounded?
Is it working correctly?
Is it wired correctly?
Yep, okay, on to the next itdoesn't that we don't care who
fixed it, as long as it's doneright no inspectors, we don't
(11:56):
care, we, we don't, we don'tknow code.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
This is not a code inspection, but we look for
function.
Is this working like it shouldand is it, you know, by the time
it was built?
Is it holding up?
Over that span of time?
We did a house well.
You and I had a house over 200years old.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, that was so old A couple weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
There were some weird things in that place, but
somebody did something like 70years ago Like wow, it's still
here.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But you still need to get that out because
something's not right there's a,found there's a weird
foundation repair.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, on this one a couple different things that
they did.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Very odd, that would like yeah, no, no, no, I'm gonna
get that, get that looked atyou.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Think about anything else on this one?
Just yeah, you need to.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Actually, this is a really good idea for like
father's Day or Mother's Day ifyou've got older parents, or if
you've got an estate that youwant to have an idea for what's
going on before it gets sold, ifyou've got a kid that's kind of
clueless and doesn't knowanything, or if you're just too
(13:05):
freaking busy because life sucksand you don't have time to get
into your attic or your crawlspace or look around, and and
maybe not only do you not havetime, but you have no clue what
you're looking for call aninspection company.
Have us come out and do amaintenance inspection for you.
It gives you your report and itgives you your honeydew list
and then you can work on thatand then by the time you're done
(13:25):
, if you do decide to sell yourhouse, it's in better shape than
when you bought it becauseyou've kept up on it.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
All right, I got to tell you that would suck as a
Father's Day gift.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You would not want Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, no, no.
Let me explain this.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
For like an older father.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Like an older, like, I'm still gonna explain this.
Oh my god, here we go, ladies.
Oh, now they're prepping tosell it.
Explain on it, okay, cool, youmay be saving some headache down
the road.
Regular old dad really doesn'twant to come up.
Somebody else, come in theplace, go.
Hey, there's something wrongwith your house.
All right, I'm saying typical,average guy.
He definitely does not want tohave some strange dude.
Come on, give him a list ofchores to do that his wife is
(14:07):
aware of whatever all right, anyguys listen to this make a
comment
Speaker 4 (14:18):
we need to have a running commentary between the
women and the men I think itshows karen because he doesn't
have to get in and do any ofthat crap.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I agree for an elderly parent.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Like an elderly parent for Father's Day gift.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right, I'm talking somebody who's not
elderly, all those people, man.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Really honey.
So you think some dude who hasabsolutely no bloody freaking
clue how to like oh I don't knowchange out a doorknob, is going
to have an idea of what he'slooking at when he goes to the
attic or the crawl space?
You don't think that personwould actually?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
need to have an inspection.
It's going to depend on the guy.
But you said develop yourhoneydew list no.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Ladies help me out.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Guys, do you want a honey-do list?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Some guys will, some guys like that, but they'll know
what they're fixing and they'llknow how to fix it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
With YouTube, internet, you can learn anything
nowadays.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Right, and now they'll know how to do that, and
that will give them more skills.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
If you want to add a comment, go Laura's right, laura
comment go laura's rightlaura's wrong.
Jim's right, laura's right weguys don't want a whole bunch of
honey do list.
Now, guys, will I guys have noproblem go.
Hey, I think there's somethingwrong.
My addy, can you come help youknow, clarify with me what that
is.
I think most guys would be allright with that, but for the
(15:45):
goal of getting a honeydew list,no, no.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
So anyway, give a comment please thank you
everybody, ladies, for the help.
Bye.
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