Successful Home Ownership With Richard McKenzie, 1st Inspection Services

Determining what to ask for to be fixed can be tricky oh, and who makes that determination? What should my real estate agent know? What should my home inspector tell me? How to form this request list.

Our trip is a family down to Wilmington North Carolina from Cincinnati and some observations and stories and of course some home inspecting items. What is life without Adventures?

Buying an investment property has many things to think about. Immediate repairs, short-term repairs, long-term planning. What about tenants? What about big expenses? What do I look for especially in a multi-family dwelling? What is it like at the inspection and what are you looking for and what should I expect? This episode helps you recognize things when looking for the right property and how to...

Exterior water is a very tricky thing to manage. There are so many things that we just don't notice or think about until somebody points the map. Most of them thankfully are actually very easy to implement and not really that expensive. Listen in and hopefully learn some ways you can improve your current house and help you pick out a house that you can do a pretty good job of keeping the water awa...

Wouldn't it be great if you could do the right things to make your home-buying process less stressful and actually enjoyable? Is there a mathematical formula for buying a house? No that's because it is not a logical experience. Rather it is an emotional experience. What are some things you can do to reduce your stress in buying a house and during the inspection? Can you help all the parties involv...

Water is both a friend and an enemy especially in a real estate transaction. This is true for commercial properties and Residential Properties. How do you deal with keeping water away from your foundation out of your basement out of your crawl space at cetera? This episode is all about that and some ideas some simple and some not so simple in accomplishing that.

Many of us want to renovate or flip houses. But what do we look for when we're trying to buy or acquire the right property to flip? Also real estate agent out there what are you looking for when working with a renovator? And buyers out there what are you looking for and hope to find when buying a house that has been flipped? What do you watch out for? And flippers out there what do we inspectors l...

There are many types of roofs and there are many materials of roofs. What are we looking for during a roof inspection typically? What things inhibit are roof inspection? What are some typical defects? This episode will help you understand what we are looking for during a home inspection.

So you have a great idea to buy a multi-family property. Maybe you are going to live in one unit and rent the other three out. Maybe you are just buying it as an investment altogether. In either case what are some things that you should be thinking about? Safety? Insurance? Condition of the property? You bet all of those are covered on this episode. So listen in.

Now that you have gotten the home inspection done and you have the report what do you do now?

A typical inspection The Following episode describes what is it like to walk with us what typical things are we looking for what should you be looking for in touring houses before you buy also? Lots of good examples here.

We want to enjoy the granite countertops and the stainless steel appliances and we want to know where to put the master bed and the sectional couch but what about safety first? Here is a sampling of the items we are looking for during your home inspection that were thinking about safety. Safety First!

So you are getting ready to do a contract on a house and you need to set up a home inspection. You will need to attend the home inspection choose the inspector and read the home inspection report ... this episode describes that process and those details with several examples. Enjoy!

As a home inspector I came from a certain background and a path in life to get here. In this episode that this describes how I got here and some ins and outs and examples of things that I've encountered at inspections and how I interact with clients. Some of these are from this very day and this morning's inspection

So I got a home inspection and the report tells me to get a specialist to look at X Y or Z why is that? What should I do?

How do you get the most out of your home inspection? What are some things you should do and what are some things you should not do in preparation and attending your home inspection?

Yikes seriously a snake at a home inspection? So how do you handle things like this well this is sort of how some people could handle it and definitely how I handled it. Perhaps a disclaimer don't try this at home.

In this episode Richard your host is interviewed by Maria McKenzie and asked several questions about home inspection topics to help you through the home buying process.

There are pros and cons with each but I would make a case that the benefits of using a real estate agent vastly outweigh doing it yourself. Listen to this episode to gain a few insights of things you may not have thought about.

What to take into consideration when buying a house that looks like it is on somewhat of a hill. What do you look for and how do you analyze that? Is it part of your inspection?

A Unique Home Inspection with a unique drive to get there inspecting a unique house with a unique passenger in the car with me to get there during a three hour inspection with also a unique guest at the inspection all of that becomes ... priceless.

What is the typical client like during a home inspection? Well there really is not a typical client. This episode describe several types of clients and asked the question which category are you?

A buyer may have a pre disposed set of beliefs about what a home inspection is. This episode will describe what to really expect and what a buyer's level of expectation with that Home Inspection should contain.

There are various ways to reduce your risk when buying a house. This episode covers many of those not all of them however and knowing that you can never eliminate all risks what are those things that you can do to reduce them?

When you get your home inspected and you have purchased a historical house that brings unique encounters lots of rich character and generally makes for an inspection that is never boring so what should you expect during a historical home inspection? Listen and find out