Greater Chicagoland Home Inspection

With the current housing crisis and the saturation of homes on the market, it is imperative for your home to stand out among the rest.  Curb appeal is the first step to securing a buyer.  It has to have that WOW factor.  When a potential buyer signs the contract, they normally hire a home inspec...

With the current housing crisis and the saturation of homes on the market, it is imperative for your home to stand out among the rest.  Curb appeal is the first step to securing a buyer.  It has to have that WOW factor.  When a potential buyer signs the contract, they normally hire a home inspect...

With the current housing crisis and the saturation of homes on the market, it is imperative for your home to stand out among the rest.  Curb appeal is the first step to securing a buyer.  It has to have that WOW factor.  When a potential buyer signs the contract, they normally hire a home inspect...

With the current housing crisis and the saturation of homes on the market, it is imperative for your home to stand out among the rest.  Curb appeal is the first step to securing a buyer.  It has to have that WOW factor.  When a potential buyer signs the contract, they normally hire a home inspect...

  Commonly I am asked about how to prevent Carbon Monoxide from entering the house.  Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas that forms from incomplete combustion of fuels, such as natural or liquefied petroleum gas, oil, wood or coal. While it is impossible to keep it from e...

As the housing crisis continues, a great number of my inspections are homes in foreclosure.  It is by no suprise to most of you that many of these homes which once stood proud as a symbol of the American Dream, now lie is a state of disarray.  Holes are punched in walls, electrical wire is pulled...

A few weeks have passed since my last entry.  The number of booked inspections are increasing fast, and family life is, as always, busy.  The Greater Chicagoland Home Inspection website has debuted, and though some gained knowledge of SEO, I am slowly but surely creeping up the charts.  Instead o...

This is a great warning from my friend Charles about the problems associated with shrubbery and home ownership.      If one insists on planting stuff so that it can climb on one’s house, one is only asking for trouble.       Not only can we not see what the vegetation is physically doing to the h...

I woke this morning with the intention of focusing my efforts on my goal of writing my 100th blog post, inching over 50,000 points, and by the Grace of God, getting a featured post.  I was quite surprised that my blog  Can You Live in 89 Square Feet? became a featured post.  What an honor! You se...

I read an article the other day about a gentleman named Jay Shafer, who gave up living in his 4000 square foot home to live in a hand built 89 square foot house.  Amazingly, by taking some of the design styles that Frank Lloyd Wright incorporated into his architecture, Jay was able to build a hou...