Sep 14, 2016 | Buying Property, Home Inspections
By Nigel Aitken – Professional Home Inspector. The purchasing of a house regardless of its value is likely to be the most expensive purchase any individual will ever make. Therefore it makes good sense for a buyer to protect his investment by requesting an...
Sep 7, 2016 | Home Repairs, Selling Property
By: Hermine Aslanyan When you put your home on the market, you want it to sell fast and get most of its value. To get the price you want, you need to consider several things. When you are a homeowner you are doing repairs and remodels during the whole year because...
Aug 31, 2016 | Home Repairs
By Lisa Kaplan Gordon Homes should come with a warning label announcing “home maintenance required.” Like it or not, houses need upkeep, and unless you’re fine shelling out tons of money to the plumbers and contractors you’ll have on speed dial, it pays to master a...
Aug 24, 2016 | Buying Property
By: Hermine Aslanyan As you might know, over the past few years, the housing market crushed, and many people have to downsize their home. When looking for a place to live, we consider two most important points – location and size. Sometimes downsizing can be...
Aug 17, 2016 | Estate Agents, Selling Property
As a business, an estate agent’s revenue stream could be categorized as a penalizing model, in other words, this means that as one property is sold, the estate agent keeps moving on to the next one to sell – always starting from zero. However, this...
Jul 13, 2016 | Selling Property
Selling your property quickly in a down-turned economy is likely to be one of the most challenging exercises you’ll undertake. Day after day, you hope to find the perfect buyer who will come along and make you the right offer on your home. You may even find that...
May 15, 2016 | Horror Stories
Roof inspection findings: A lady from Fourways in Johannesburg, recently widowed with two young children, purchased a house and could not understand why the roof was sagging. She called in Inspect-A-Home and after a thorough examination we found that the house had...
May 5, 2016 | Horror Stories
Roof cavity inspection findings: Recently we inspected a house in Westville where the roof cavity had over 30 paint tins and old buckets all collecting water from the roof leaking badly. The owner had thrown sawdust 50mm thick over the entire ceiling to catch all the...
Apr 30, 2016 | Buying Property, Estate Agents, Home Inspections
Some estate agents avoid pre-sale home inspections, believing that they may jeopardise the sale. In most cases, this is simply not the case. Either nothing serious is found or the buyer importantly purchases a property with full knowledge of its condition. Rather than...
Mar 16, 2016 | Home Inspections
The minimal amount spent on a home inspection, can save endless stress later on. Don’t fall into the ‘Penny Wise, Pound Foolish’ trap when you buy a home. Why is it that more time is spent on test driving a new car, yet not enough time is spent going...
