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Rental Roulette: What Types of Houses Make Good Rentals

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Downtown Winchester has houses of every shape and size.

Downtown Winchester has houses of every shape and size.

You’re Supposed to be Learning

A couple of years ago I inspected a 1940s era single-family home here in Winchester that had been a college rental for a number of years. In a break from convention, one of the tenants felt it his duty give me a tour of the house during the inspection. As I came to find out, he was the most senior member of the household and the keeper of all the legend and lore specific to that quasi-fraternal domicile. (The House had invented some sort of game that involved using lawn darts inside and there was a board with tally marks in the kitchen. I didn’t ask about the specifics.) [...]  Read More

A Home Inspector’s Guide to New Home Construction

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The suburbs. Where the skies are a palace in an alley!

New is exciting. And based on absolutely no research, I imagine that the potential of new stimulates some part of the brain that has a huge influence on the rest of our grey matter. It makes sense that the allure of a new house, for many people, is psychological magnetism. Come on. It’s a new house. Everything will work, look good, and even smell nice. Your friends will be awestruck. Your parents will finally deem you responsible. Perhaps most importantly, you aren’t inheriting anybody’s old anything. A new house irrefutably proves that you have achieved. [...]  Read More