Claremont, NH

A Friday Night Rant, as folks know I sure don't usually write rant blog posts. But theres a leads service company calling me that just won't take No for an answer. Service Magic has called me many times now, the last call come today, they e-mail me at least 4 times a week.

But todays phone call I just could no belive what their so called salesmen said to me! they usual sart out by asken if you can use more business. This time I said I'm doing fine with the areas that use on the net, with geting business. So then he said so you have a website, told him yes, and that I belong to some blogging communitys.


And the main blogging community that I use is for Real Estate Professionals, so he goes off and asks, so you selle Real Estate. So I told him, no I do not. Then he comes back with, how can you say your a Real Estate Professional, when your just a Home Inspector. Thats sure was it for them. Do you think I'll ever do business with them? You sure can bet your boots, that I 100% will not.

Did a bit of checken on them, and two complaint sites come up with all kinds of folks talking about the bad service they give. Complaints coming from both the public and business's that have signed up with them. One site had 8 pages and the other one had 12 pages.

Post 624 - 20 Nov. 2009

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, Here a little trick, that professional use. Install a curtain rod above your windows to help make them look taller, or use a extra long curtain rod if you'er wanting a window to look wider.

Folks find swag curtains are among the easiest for them to installed. Tie a large knot at the tip of the rod. Use a sheer fabric to filter the light and let the swag hang all the way down to the fioor for an elegant look for the room.

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, A tab top panel over a fancy roll type shade works well together. You can use any kind of curtain rod for tab top curtains.

A tailored Roman shade is functional as well as smart styling. As with curtains, to help make a window look larger than it really is, install the Roman shade on the outside of the window, overlapping the window on both ends. Its not good to use a Roman shade for windows larger than six feet as the weight of the shade makes it difficult to raise and lower it. Its best to use more than one shade instead.

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, A Roman shade with a coordinating valance for a layered effect. A good rule of thumb for a valance size is one-fourth to one-third the height of the window. You can even trim your valance with fringe or tassels for some added detail.

Post 623 - 20 Nov. 2009

We all need to Help Protect Santa, soon Santa will be arriving at the local malls and stores in your area. Kids look forward to Christmas all year, so we need to be sure to only bring our kids to see Santa if they are in good health. We all need to help protect Santa from coming down with H1N1 Flu.

Can you just imagine, what it must be like to face hundreds or even thousand of kids with sniffling, and sneezing nose's siting on your lap and having them end up rubing their germy selves on you. The only thing at this time Santa will have for protecting himself, is a bottle of hand sanitizer, and hope that parents that have kids that are really sick, will keep their kids at home.


We all need to Help Protect Santa, Santa sure can't deliver toys to all the kids all over the world, if he ended up geting the H1N1 Flu now can he?

If you have ever seen The Year Without A Santa Claus, you sure should be able to say Amen to that!


Some Santas will be haven their elves screen the lines for kids who may be really sick.

You see Santa can not get vaccinated, unless Santa has a condition that puts him at risk to end up with complications from geting the H1N1 Flu, he is haven to wait until after Thanksgiving, to be vaccinated for the H1N1 Flu, just like everyone else has to right now.

Please We all need to Help Protect Santa, and keep him healthy!

Post 622 - 19 Nov. 2009

When You and Your Family are Going on a Trip, Saftey Tips, with the Holidays apon us, some folks might be planning on visiting relatives and or friends, for a day or two, and in some cases even longer. You sure don't want to come back home, to find it has been broken into. So before you and your family pack up the car or your trusty pack mule. Please be certain that your home is and will be protected. A bit of advanced preparation on your part, sure can help protect your little ole homestead while your gone.

Before leaven your home:

If your going to be away, for longer than a day or two:

Be sure to stop mail and newspaper deliveries, or ask a neighbor or friend to pick up your mail and newspaper daily.

Be sure not to leave empty garbage cans out in sight.

Ask a neighber to keep your yard maintained, maybe they would also be willing to park a car in your driveway.

Put some automatic timers on lights, your television, or radios. Use timers that changes what times the lights come on and goes off. By using lighting patterns that vary appear alot more natural.

Look all your windows and doors, including your basement and garage doors.

Leave your blinds or shades in the positions, you would usually have them. This will give your home a normal, folks are home look.

When You and Your Family are Going on a Trip, Safety Tips, be sure to tell a trusted neighbor when you and your family will be leaving, and when y'all will be returning date. Also supply your neighbor with phone numbers in case of an emergency and leave them a key to your home.

Let your local police department or if live out in the country, then let the Sheriff's department know, and ask either one of these departments, to periodically stop by to check your residence.

Be sure not to put a, your out of town message on your home answering machine, voicemail, or in your personal e-mail account.

If your home has a alarm system, let the alarm company konw you and your family are going to be gone, and ask them to perform routine maintenance on your home's alarm system prior to y'all leaving.

Post 621 - 19 Nov. 2009

Okay Whats For Lunch, The next time you go out to have a picnic, you just might want to take along some kind of wild nuts and berries food with you. Beare are very curious, highly intelligent, and at times they can be potentially a dangerous animal.

Undue fear of bears sure can endanfer bears and folks a like. There are alot of bears killed every year, by folks just because they are afraid of bears and no other reason. If folks would just respect bears, and learn proper behavior when visiting the territory of bears, sure will help if they should encounter a bear on an outing, then neither of y'all will end up suffering needlessly from the experience. Most of the time bears will avoid folks. And if folks will give a bear the opportunity to do the right thing, they usual will.

Okay Whats For Lunch, bears are always looking for something to eat, they only have about six months to build up their fat reserves for their long winter hibernation. Don't let bears learn human foods or garbage can be a easy meal for them. Its illegal and foolish to feed bears,either on purpose or by going off and leaving food or garbage that will attract them.

Post 620 - 18 Nov. 2009