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Prepare to meet your builder - Toronto Sun
Prepare to meet your builder
Toronto Sun
Take lots of notes and if you think you could use a second opinion, bring a delegate, for example, a professional engineer or qualified home inspector. 3. ...
Drainage relieves pressure on walls - Pocono Record
Drainage relieves pressure on walls
Pocono Record
Dwight Barnett is a master home inspector. Write to him with home-improvement questions at C. Dwight Barnett, Evansville Courier & Press, PO Box 286, ...
Ins and outs of home inspection - Seattle Times
Ins and outs of home inspection
Seattle Times
Q: We just sold our home and the buyers hired a home inspector through their real-estate agent. The buyers then asked that we make the ...
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How to Become a Home Inspector Free Information Available from Accurate ... - PR Web (press release)
How to Become a Home Inspector Free Information Available from Accurate ...
PR Web (press release)
Accurate Inspections, Inc., is proud to announce free information and software for people who want to learn how to become a home inspector. ...
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Brain Fatigue: Devices' nonstop stimulation may prevent learning
Standing in line in the grocery store? Check your smart phone.
Mid Valley Foods kicks off work on facility in Oakdale
OAKDALE - Mid Valley Foods held a groundbreaking Thursday for its new $2.8 million facility, which will let the wholesale food distributor triple its production and hire more workers.
Sonora police arrest suspected drug dealer twice
A Sonora woman out of jail after being arrested last month on suspicion of selling drugs has been accused of being at it again, authorities said.
Yesteryears
75 YEARS AGO: A two-day Portuguese Tourada and field day attracted 10,000 to the Shiloh Rodeo grounds to enjoy the bullfights, wrestling and milking competitions, and a steer beef barbecue.
Agents arrest owner of Modesto gun shop
Federal agents Thursday arrested a Salida man suspected of illegally selling guns, including assault weapons, at his east Modesto gun shop to undercover agents and others posing as Mexican citizens without identification.
Plenty of options abound for Labor Day weekend
Helen Leal and Olga Bentulan struggled with the new tent Thursday afternoon, but that was the only hitch in their Labor Day plans.
Around The Region (9/3/10)
Modesto
DUI patrols set through weekend in Stanislaus
A two- week countywide effort to curb drunken driving wraps up this Labor Day weekend with saturation patrols tonight in Modesto, Ceres, Turlock, Oakdale and Riverbank and a sobriety checkpoint Saturday night in Oakdale.
Merced animal rescue tries to deal with 20 dogs unloaded there
MERCED - Sitting in a shaded kennel, Pam Moody was surrounded by dogs.
Sacramento man dies in bike accident
A Sacramento man died Wednesday night after he was struck by a car while riding a bicycle on a rural road a few miles west of Turlock, the California Highway Patrol reported Thursday.
We're looking for some 'Class Acts'
The Bee is searching for teachers to be profiled in our weekly feature "Class Acts."
Ripon police use video to nab theft suspects
Officers used surveillance video to find three boys suspected of stealing a purse from a woman at a Taco Bell two weeks ago in Ripon, police said Thursday.
Sheriff: Unearthed body in Riverbank was missing grandmother
Lyon County sheriff's officials on Thursday said Peggy Herlacher, a grandmother from Nevada, is believed to be the woman found buried in a Riverbank home's back yard this week.
Kitchen catches fire from neglected stove in Modesto
The kitchen of an east Modesto home was damaged by fire Wednesday night after a pot of water with sugar in it was left boiling on the stove after the occupant left the house, authorities said.
UC Merced chancellor to step down next year
MERCED - University of California at Merced Chancellor Steve Kang said Thursday that he will resign in June and return to a research and teaching position with the University of California.