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Jon Rudolph

Home Buyer and Seller Seeking Professional Realtor Advice

11-15-09
Jon Rudolph

Home buyers and sellers often rely on thier hired Realtor to provide real estate transaction advice based on the Realtor's professional knowledge and experience. Here's a Realtor question for consideration.

In many states, Home inspectors are not required to carry errors & omission insurance or general liability insurance. Should a professional Realtor advise thier Buyer clients to hire an inspector that carries both types of insurance and their Seller clients not to allow an uninsured home inspector into thier home? Do you provide such advice? Why or why not?

ASHI Inspectors Annual Senior Citizens Home Safety Community Service

11-13-09
Jon Rudolph

Northern Colorado Chapter American Society of Home Inspectors (NCC-ASHI)

Proudly Hosted the 3rd Annual Senior Safety Saturday -

a skill-based service that targets improving safety in older adults' homes

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The Event

• FREE 40+ point Home Safety Check performed by local ASHI Home Inspectors, covering: Heating Systems | Water Heaters | Fireplaces | Electrical Components | Tripping, Falling and General Hazards | Fire Safety

• Seniors 65 and older are eligible | Must be homeowner and reside at the home | Must be present during safety check-up | Must sign liability waiver

• Participating local businesses will provided free or discounted products/services

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Result Overview of

Northern Colorado Chapter of American Society of Home Inspectors (NCC-ASHI)

SENIOR SAFETY SATURDAY (10/17/09)

•· 8 Volunteer Home Inspectors; 6 Participating Service Companies

•· 34 senior homes safety checked in one day

•· 106 Specific Safety Defect items reported (not counting recommended upgrades)

•· % of the homes' Safety Defects reported (not counting recommended upgrades)

Defect Profile as percent of Homes Inspected

Unfortunately, we were limited to the number of homes checked. We had many more requests then we were able to work into this year's program. We hope these seniors will try for next year's program or contact one of our professional Certified ASHI Home Inspectors to have their home inspected for safety hazards, sooner than later.

Thank you to all the participating professional home inspectors, service providers and the Loveland Fire Prevention Bureau.

Thank you to the people that helped get the word out and promote this annual public service program.

Don't Let Your Halloween Turn Into a TRIP HAZARD Nightmare!!

10-31-09
Jon Rudolph

BOO! BE AWARE, TAKE ACTION!!! Don't Let Your Halloween Turn Into a TRIP HAZARD Nightmare!!

Halloween can be the worst time for trip hazard falls, injury and liability as kids and parents of all ages walk and run onto your dark property eager to receive treats.

Any small to large and irregular surface displacement can be a trip hazard and action should be taken to minimize risk.

ID Property Inspection Warraning

Suggestions: Use Halloween decorations as a means to obstruct and slow down foot traffic at sidewalks, driveways, patio, etc.; any walkway path that may pose a trip hazard. For example, Caution Tape over a saw horse or hay bale across the hazards. Use your imagination, for anything that might overt, alert and avoid a trip. Adequate lighting will also help!

Oh yeah, get it fixed as soon as you can ;))

I.D. Property Inspections, Inc. wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable Halloween.

NCC-ASHI Senior Safety Saturday Oct. 17th

10-11-09
Jon Rudolph

3rd Annual FREE Senior Home Safety Check-ups, Sat Oct 17th for Northern Colorado Senior Home Owners!

Realtors and other professionals in the real estate and home services industries, this is agreat reason to connect with past clients and inform them of this free community service or let them know to offer to inform their qualifying family members.

The Northern Colorado Chapter of American Society of Home Inspectors (NCC-ASHI) offers this community service once a year. Many of its professional home Inspector memebership performs the skill-based 40+ point home safety check, including furnace and water heaters for gas & exhaust (CO) leaks.

See http://www.id-inspections.com/SeniorSafetySaturday for more details!

Credit Card Home Inspection Scam Busted!

08-11-09
Jon Rudolph

Credit Card Scam Busted!

This is interesting. I recently posted on FB the wonderful benefit of the internet in terms of customers finding your business and ordering services without having to spend time selling.

Well, that still holds true. However, like everything there is an equally disturbing dark side.

My so called internet client ordered an inspection, through www.nationalreclocation.com. Through a series of e-mails to schedule the inspection, they slipped in the request to have an extra $800 charged against the credit card and the balance wire transferred to their client (alleged home buyer). At this point it was clear this was a scam.

However, the "buyer's agent" persisted and e-mailed me the credit card information. This information contained the full name, address, credit card number, expiration date and CVV2 number on back of card. This information was for a 3rd party person.

I gave the story and information to the police. I just heard back from the officer.

It turns out the potential victim (the person whose credit card information I received) had no idea her credit card information was stolen. She was holding the card in her hand as the officer explained the situation. She was totally stunned.

She is now in the process of cancelling the card and reporting the ID theft to her local police. Fortunately, it doesn't sound like any stolen charges have been processed yet.

Three points to this event:

•1) Don't hesitate to act. It may never be too late. This could have easily been dismissed as a waste of my time or doesn't affect me don't get involved scenario. This victim could have been me or anyone else I know. She may get by with only a scare and no monetary losses because someone acted.

•2) Any place you run your card is a potential source for ID theft. This victim had no idea how her credit card information was stolen.

•3) Anyone that processes credit cards needs to be alert to someone trying to use them and their services for part of a scam. This scam was obvious, others may not be.