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Cleveland's Lead Safe Rental Law: One Year Anniversary
After year one of a two year rollout, how's the law doing and what can we expect this year? It’s now March, which means we’re exactly one...
Mar 3, 20226 min read
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Dream House Inspections Just Got A Sweet Upgrade!
I’m coming up on my 15-year anniversary of being a home inspector! I’ve been doing inspections the same way since the beginning. When I...
Feb 15, 20223 min read
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Ohio’s New Home Inspector Licensing Law. What Buyers Need To Know.
On July 1st, Ohio’s new home inspector licensing law went into effect. While I’m not too happy about having to pay an extra fee to the...
Jul 12, 20213 min read
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Cleveland Lead Safe Rental Law Final Step: The Clearance Examination.
Every day I get calls from Cleveland landlords asking about the new lead law. Typically, the caller is expecting to book the Clearance...
Apr 29, 20213 min read
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Cleveland's Lead Safe Rental Law Step 4: Final Cleanup
Once all lead hazards have been identified and remediated (see previous posts), the last step before your Clearance Examination is to...
Apr 16, 20212 min read
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Waiving the Home Inspection to Win a Bidding War?
It’s a crazy housing market! There are far fewer homes for sale than people who want to buy them. I’m hearing stories from Realtors that...
Mar 21, 20215 min read
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Cleveland’s Lead Safe Rental Law Step 3: Doing the Work While Protecting Tenants
The purpose of Cleveland’s lead-safe rental law is to protect the city’s youngest renters—those under the age of 6—from the dangerous and...
Mar 16, 20214 min read
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Complying with Cleveland's Lead Safe Rental Law Step 2: Choosing Remediation Options
Once lead hazards throughout the home have been identified, the next step is to decide which remediation to use with each hazard. If you...
Feb 19, 20214 min read
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Complying with Cleveland’s Lead Safe Rental Law Step 1: Identifying Lead Hazards
I’ve been getting a lot of phone calls the last few weeks from landlords concerned about Cleveland’s lead safe rental law. The top...
Jan 24, 20214 min read
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Cleveland’s Lead Safe Rental Law—What Does “Lead Safe” Mean?
In my last post, I gave an outline of Cleveland’s new lead safe rental law. But what exactly does it mean to make a home “lead safe”?...
Jan 18, 20212 min read
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Cleveland's Lead Safe Rental Law
One of my primary goals with this blog is to create a resource of information for landlords as they prepare for Cleveland’s new lead-safe...
Jan 12, 20212 min read
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Dream House Inspections New Website
Our new website is full of General House Inspection information!
Dec 28, 20201 min read
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