Jeff Prince's (safeathomeinspect) Blog

Hi all been seeing some really bad deck construction lately. Probably weekend warriors for sure. I would not be suprised if it wasn't though. Missing fasteners,ledger boards not secured correctly, no flashing, I have seen tons of this stuff lately. I hope people will actually know what consequenc...

Things are lookin up! Been doing nothing but foreclosures they are more work . I can't believe some of the things people will take out of a house. Like sump pumps then the basement floods and ruins about $10,000 in hardwood floors in one house ,lighting fixtures and plumbing fixtures. Fairly busy...

How is everybody? Have been doing mostly inspections on foreclosed homes. I inspected one home it was never occupied went right from the owner/builder right to foreclosures. It was a nice 4000 sq. ft custom home. Well I cannot complain though. I did see that home sales were up which is good so th...

Sorry I have not been able to post much . I have gotten busy all of a sudden. I inspected a house on thu. 4300 sq ft. on a golf course in ground pool jacuzzi sauna. It was built in 1977. I thought Austin Powers was going to jump out at me. LOL. It was a interesting house a foreclosure special the...

I have been spending significant time working on my website to improve my search engine rankings and just to give potential clients as much information as possible. Active rain has really helped me to get in touch with agents, brokers and other professionals in the real estate business. It also h...

Terrible weather weekend here in chicago area. Stopped by a few open house in Naperville, Bolingbrook, and Westmont and chatted with a few agents. Just was not a good weekend for open house traffic. I did get to have some nice converstions with a couple very nice agents. I dropped of some of my c...

Hello to all I can't wait for the spring market. I want it to start right now ! LOL I am just chomping at the bit a little here. I want the market to start rockin. It looks like some business is trickling in. The weather in chicvago for the upcoming weekend does not look to good so not as many bu...

Had some Good Weather this weekend in Chicago. I went around to a couple of open houses to see talk with a few agents and they all said that they had some good thru-traffic. The last two days the Internet traffic is way up for home inspection keywords and traffic to my site so hopefully we can ke...

I just heard on the news that citibank had their best year since 2007! Finally some good news. we just need a little to get the snowball of good news going. That is all it will take. People should respond positively to this news. Lets open up those credit markets so buyers can get some mortgages ...

Hey there everybody Things seem to be picking up. I seem to be getting alot more traffic on my website. I have received a few inspections, not to bad for this time of year in chicago area. I have a feeling that the credit markets might be loosening up, hard for me to say  I am not an expert for s...