A forty-one year home inspector walks through the seven things he looked at before he ever reached the front door, and why the well-kept house with the fresh mulch and the new sod worried him more than the tired one with peeling paint. Most of it can be read from the driveway in under a minute, with nothing but an hour and a flashlight. The last one costs the most and looks like the least.

Forty-one years and about five thousand houses, so you know which problems are the serious ones. Subscribe, and I'll see you in the next one.

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