How to Be a Master Flipper

photo by carolynn.will This is a guest post by Greg Wilson. Greg rehabs about 40 houses a year and does this full time ... walk the house. Have the house inspected. Perform pre-foundation repair plumbing tests. Fix leaks ... Change the locks. Install a key box. Clean-up landscaping. De-trash. Repair the foundation. Perform [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 10:59:09

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Reno-vat-ions

With my cousins’ home undergoing some very major renovations (I am so excited, it is going to give a huge face lift to their cosy home) ... renovated, refurbished or undergo a major face lift should contact the rightful house foundation repair ... , our two decade old home is not one with the best foundation. Even when we lived there, the first [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 04:42:32

Good morning all

I am starting late today because the top of my head came off first thing this morning and it’s hard to write with lava flowing from your neck ... my leaking foundation. In the house by the way in case you were thinking that my leaking mental foundation was beyond repair I tend to agree with you. Posted in assholes, changing cable again, CRANKY [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 13:57:32

Back from the abyss of home renovations

Hey! A) Marry Christmas! As much as I value multicultural tolerance, Kwanzaa is not a holiday, sorry. I am all for Hanukkah though. B) ... my house.  For the past 2 months or so I had the foundations repaired (since my kitchen countertop separated from the wall and sank 3 inches). The foundation repair cracked all of the walls. 100 year [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 22:47:19

203K Rehabilitation Program – Breaking it down into 12 Easy Steps

I toured a home with a friend of mine the other day ... has a block foundation that is cracking horizontally, shifting, and needs attention…pronto. It’ ... will not lend money on homes in need of significant repairs. But, the house can’t be repaired until [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:01:25

Honored By The New Orleans City Council

Honored By The New Orleans City Council Monday, October 13, 2008 Despite the sluggish economy, ... Green Service House: foundation structural repairs, siding replacements, mold and mildew remediation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 19:00:05

Skills you Need to Rehab a Home

by Erin Cureton Drywall/ Plaster Repair When rehabbing old houses, cracks and holes in the plaster are common ... of more serious foundation issues. Once the root cause is fixed (see basic water repair section) cut ... screws, mud the gaps, tape, re-mud then sand to a smooth finish. Basic Water Pipe Repair Many [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 09:28:06

Skills to Help You Rehab a Home

by Erin Cureton Drywall/ Plaster Repair When rehabbing old houses, cracks and holes in the plaster are common ... of more serious foundation issues. Once the root cause is fixed (see basic water repair section) cut ... screws, mud the gaps, tape, re-mud then sand to a smooth finish. Basic Water Pipe Repair Many [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 22:47:42

Rehabbing a Home? Here are Some Skills You Need to Know

by Erin Cureton Drywall/ Plaster Repair When rehabbing old houses, cracks and holes in the plaster are common ... of more serious foundation issues. Once the root cause is fixed (see basic water repair section) cut ... screws, mud the gaps, tape, re-mud then sand to a smooth finish. Basic Water Pipe Repair [more...]

Date: 2008-10-25 12:53:54

Skills you Need to Rehab a Home

by Erin Cureton Drywall/ Plaster Repair When rehabbing old houses, cracks and holes in the plaster are common ... of more serious foundation issues. Once the root cause is fixed (see basic water repair section) cut ... screws, mud the gaps, tape, re-mud then sand to a smooth finish. Basic Water Pipe Repair [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 10:12:54

Rehabbing a Home? Here are Some Skills You Need to Know

by Erin Cureton Drywall/ Plaster Repair When rehabbing old houses, cracks and holes in the plaster are common ... of more serious foundation issues. Once the root cause is fixed (see basic water repair section) cut ... screws, mud the gaps, tape, re-mud then sand to a smooth finish. Basic Water Pipe Repair [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 15:05:11

House Waterproofing

With the house back home already finished the renovation. I am so excited to go home next year ... for that one so, I hope it will turn out just fine. So are you looking for a Home Foundation Repair company? I came ... but it worries me that after the huge house renovation there are still needed to be done. Must [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 01:00:59

I’m Gonna Jack you Up

October 30, 2008 — Slartibartfast We interrupt this radio silence for a little blegging. It woud appear that Nine Mile Hill is swallowing my house ... the problem got too big to ignore, and now I’m throwing money at it. So, I need foundation repair ... .  Or at least half of it.  After the fire in 2002, our house was gutted and rebuilt [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 12:23:03

would you rather have some turkey or a bread n butter

My cat and the turkey round 1..... hahhah Turkey had no chance Before you sit down and enjoy your Thanksgiving day, ... . This is an absolute steal! The house repairs won't cost you much just some siding repair, needs a furnace, and an electrical wiring, basement is dry an some light drywall work. The foundation is SOLID! WOW [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 06:11:04

Home Remodeling with Tim Moss Home Improvement.com

There are a lot of home remodeling contractors out there, but there is no other that can do what www.timmosshomeimprovement ... lift and more. It is because Tim Moss specializes in Decks and Porches, Home Foundation repair ... .com can bring to your table. See through their website how an old house transforms into a new [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:03:40

Oh Yum! - Built to Last

Book Title: Oh Yum! - Built to Last Author: Sierra Dafoe Publisher: Ellora’s Cave Publisher URL: http://www.ellorascave ... as she loves the house and town, she doesn’t love the leaking roof, old wiring, leaning foundation ... repair quote a local contractor has given her. The only answer is to get another bid [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 11:33:25

Be a successful home flipper by Flipping Dallas Real Estate

by Jordan Hashem Have you ever flipped a house before? If the market in your area is not doing well then Dallas real estate could be your answer ... such as foundation and roofing issues which can be costly to repair. By having an inspector check ... your start your house flipping adventure: There are several things you have to keep in mind [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 17:42:23

Holey Crap!

Hey y'all What a way to start the week--- They began the foundation repair yesterday morning ---digging down to put 'piers' under the wall between the garage and the house to correct a problem the previous owners neglected over a period of years. There will also be steel plates and steel bars and more steel plates in the back [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 18:22:10

snowmen, santa and gingerbread

We are still having huge amounts of fun with our 25 days of Christmas challenge ... to oversee the repair of some serious foundation cracks, walls that were completely out of level ... really enjoyed it. Make Santa's house out of blocks. They went so far as to make furniture as well [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 04:49:00

For the Love of Historic Preservation

Some families support education, others health care, still other cancer research, ... 1828 Askren House in Indianapolis, allowing officials to repair the roof and masonry, and eventually ... preservation projects. The Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) program administers the program [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 13:25:25

A Foundation AND Stimulus: Infrastructure Repair

We can now post the prepared testimony of Doug Black, the CEO of Oldcastle Materials, submitted for today’s hearing by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, “Investing in Infrastructure: The Road to Recovery.” Doug makes the point that repair needs have gone [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 18:41:44

Obama sets goal to create 2.5 million jobs

Washington (ChattahBox) — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday said he has directed the economic team guiding his White House transition to come ... in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy. “These aren’t just steps ... , Obama proposed spending $85 billion on infrastructure repair initiatives over a 10-year period [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 12:41:04

Stimulating!

Stimulating! The US House unveiled an $825 billion, two-year stimulus plan today, crafted by the Obama transition team and House Democrats ... on that investment. Scientific Research • National Science Foundation: $3 billion, including $2 billion ... of higher education and other scientists, $200 million to repair and modernize science and engineering [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:06:19

Multi-Million Dollar Landslide Property Loss in Mountain Air

Undated photograph of Hemlock Bluff C-1. The building which houses this unit was the issue of one of the lawsuits ... separating of the decks from the buildings, cracking in foundation and supports, movement of stairs ... for the extraordinary repairs and reconstruction of the buildings and major portions of the common elements [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:40:00

Wren’s Nest Conservation Project — Repairing the Porch

You’ll be happy to know that Blalock Construction Co, our contractor, started exterior and foundation work on the Wren’s Nest around Thanksgiving.  Workers have been busy banging on the house ever since. We’ll be spending about $107,000 ... Porch Rail Repair Our carpenter took off the rail and replaced the rotted pieces in-kind too. Many [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 18:32:26

Tech Stimuli

The tech industry is, naturally, pleased about today's proposed $825 billion stimulus package from House Democrats ... the way automobiles are powered. Scientific Research National Science Foundation: $3 billion ... equipment shared by institutions of higher education and other scientists, $200 million to repair [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:00:04

What Lies Beneath

Plenty of people have had flashes of insight while in the bathroom. Others have them because they can't get into the bathroom ... repair and rebuilding that may prove necessary, than to live in a house built on sand until ... answers to all our questions, without being able to trace all our reasoning back to a sure foundation [more...]

Date: 2008-08-23 09:10:00

Young, Pregnant, Desperate? Pick Your Judge Carefully

Photo by Flickr user mindgutter, used under a Creative Commons license ... thrown out of the house, or beaten, or belittled. In those cases, parental notification laws don't repair ... my kids to come to me with serious problems someday, I have to build a foundation of trust [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 12:23:26

Skills to Help You Rehab a Home

by Erin Cureton Drywall/ Plaster Repair In the city where I do most of my rehabilitation work, all the houses are 90 to 100 years old ... the result of vandalism, but could be the sign of more serious foundation issues. Once the root cause ... drywall screws, mud the gaps, tape, re-mud then sand to a smooth finish. Basic Water Pipe Repair [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 09:27:53

I AM AN ASS

we just passed the 200-day mark on the countdown for George W. Bush to slither out of office. While I would be only too happy to see him get a sendoff appropriate to his historical position, he and his cronies will most likely stride right into corporate front offices where they can reap the rewards of eight years of raping what was once the [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 23:30:21

KEEP OFF THE GRASS

Medical marijuana is not illegal in California, but the DEA continues to raid dispensaries in Long Beach. We ask the obvious question: Why? ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY It’s just before noon on a sunny day in early October, and a young man in a Dodgers T-shirt skateboards up one of the funky East Village sidewalks of downtown Long Beach to [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 19:28:59

Sunday Roundup

We had a very productive day today.  We changed the water in all three of our hydroponic garden reservoirs, ... Kelly is also dealing with car repairs, but of a bigger variety.  She’s in the “repair or replace” ... up your personal security.  Here’s a link to the nonprofit National Foundation for Credit Counseling [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 05:58:17

Today's Cartoon: Taking The High Road

According to Rasmussen Reports,a poll conducted on July 1, 2008 shows that Congress now has an all-time low favorable approval rating of 9%! ... industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let ... for months to create a software "patch" released on Tuesday to repair the problem, which is in the way [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 21:49:43

The Winner Has A FUNNY Name!

I loaded the kids up and took them to the post office to drop off my very first order of makeup. (Geez, I was so excited.) ... children. She has one going off to college with no college fund. Her house was damaged during Hurricane ... it in for repair. As if all that wasn't enough, her mother passed away suddenly a month ago, leaving [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 13:30:00

Barack Obama sworn in as 44th US president

Barack Obama took the oath of office to become the first African-American president in US history on Tuesday, proclaiming America had chosen “hope over fear” and must unite in a “new era of responsibility” to triumph over its multiple crises. Witnessed by a huge crowd of more than two million people in an unprecedented endorsement of a new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:28:45

How to GET IT DONE!

You Heard It Here First by Dr. Richard A. Jones 10/8/08   Pretend I’ve been chosen as a special select committee of one with authority to fix the financial crisis. The following is my plan to bring you the most effective U-turn possible. I’ve taken the best of the remedies as suggested in recent weeks by various experts and merged them for your [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 17:58:40

Debt Rattle, November 23 2008: How can I convey to you?

National Photo Co. Happiness 1919 A child holding the Thanksgiving turkey. Ilargi: It may seem sort of hard to decide which idea is sillier ... gambling addict in the house. These folks won’t make decisions in favor of the American people ... and out for blood. The US needs to produce things, not repair them. Most of all, it needs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 20:47:32

AFTER HURRICANE IKE: GALVESTON RESIDENTS RETURN HOME TO HEARTBREAK

Jump to Comments Galvestonians were allowed back into their neighborhoods today to assess the damage that affected their homes. Due to there being no municipal support services to sustain them, services such as water, trash pickup, gas, electricity or sewer systems, they would have  to come only if they have had a recent tetanus shot, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 00:42:58

The United States of Allahu Akhbar

Jump to Comments George W. Bush: “Islam is Peace” The Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., September 17, 2001 Audio Thank you all very much for your hospitality. We’ve just had a — wide-ranging discussions on the matter at hand [more...]

Date: 2008-08-31 19:21:31

My little cottage

It was green - pulled straight out of a comic book’s color palette, yet set in a surrounding worthy of a poet ... . At the time, I was single, with just Supercat to call my own. This tiny, 750-square-foot house ... and some of the other areas of concern. My parents promised help in the foundation crack/stair footing [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 19:17:22

“It’s Time to Get Serious about Costs” by Jon Kingsdale

Accusations aside, the Sunday Globe’s spotlight piece lets readers in on a secret that most industry “insiders” and policy wonks already know. In the words of Gerard Anderson, Uwe Reinhardt et al from the title of their 2003 Health Affairs article on why we spend so much more on medical care than other OECD countries—“It’s the Prices, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 23:45:13

2008 AL Central Division Champions

life of Derek looks like and mentioned that I typically slept for only 2-4 hours per night. Over the last week or two, I have been trying to adjust my schedule in order to get more sleep on a nightly basis. Initially, I found myself more tired than usual during the day and that resulted in falling asleep even earlier the next night [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 20:35:38

Here We Go Again

In July of 2007 we had a piping leak in our well. The excavator was here. All was fixed. A couple of months ago air showed up in water ... into the house, and raise the well cap above ground at the same time. Look what's here today ... . There might also be a problem with the pump itself, but they're trying to repair that so we don't [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 21:08:00

My Readers ROCK! Here are the winners...

First, let me tell you how it went on Friday... When I arrived at Michael's, it was pretty evident that the chilly, ... to you?" A benefit for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation to raise money for spinal cord injury research was being held at House of Blues in Chicago. I remembered the last time Michael got to a wheelchair [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 16:11:45

Yeah, no links last time (not counting the hiccup post yesterday). I was way too involved in spewing my snobiness about pizza and beer to detract from it all, and since I’m so far behind on my links, I figured I’d just do a full follow-up post of nothing but links. Also, I was supremely sick for the first half of this past week ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:10:29

211 PA lawmakers fail to support reform

Excellent letter from Bill McIntyre of Camp Hill asking why 211 incumbent state lawmakers are not supporting a move to hold a special session of the ... this past Tuesday at the luncheon meeting hosted by the Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg where ... . Our government is broken and only you can repair it; 26 senators and 102 representatives [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 16:58:57

Thank You, Veterans!

Oldest WWI Survivor Remembers Forgotten OnesMSN.comHenry Allingham, age 112: 'We have to pray it never happens again'LONDON - Henry Allingham is the oldest living link to the 9 million soldiers killed in World War I.He is 112 now, nearly blind, mostly deaf and uses a wheelchair — none of which stops him from trying to remind everyone of those long [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 18:01:00

In the absence of miracles

Today we welcome Kristin, a.k.a. Msfitzita of Certainly Not Cool Enough to Blog, to the Are You There, God? It's Me, Medusa blogolympics table ... company of angels sat idly by watching. God was a big deal in my house when I was a child ... that I did), but doing my best just the same. And then, in an instant, the foundation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 10:00:54

Stimulus spending, transportation and bicycling

The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee has been working on "The American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act" ... that public transit in the recovery package builds a foundation for the new economy and lifts up low-income ... of our economy, ourselves, our environment, and our wallets. Use your tax cut to buy, fix, repair or upgrade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:16:51

Umm...My Kitchen Or Lack Of

Needless to say I would NEVER suggest anyone have major construction done while trying to heal from major surgery and a life changing event .. ... hammered up and a repair done. So this leak caused major issues that had to be dealt with. Plus the house ... in the middle of having some repair work done in our kitchen before any of my medical issues were [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 06:46:49

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