Asbestoswe’re getting a seller’s concession to cover closing costs on a house. but the inspection turned up several issues that need to be addressed immediately, chief among them the presence of asbestos in the cellar. the sellers offered to lower the sales price by $5000 to cover its removal along with [...]
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When buying your first home, how important was/is location to you?
I found a wonderful house. 4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, a huge front lawn and a modest back yard. It was built in 1920 and I haven’t gotten a home inspection on it yet to look for asbestos and lead paint, but the work I [...]
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I’m in the process of purchasing a house. Last week, my house inspector found that there is a broken transite pipe in the attic. He suspected that there might be asbestos filber explosure.
I contacted some asbestos specialists and they took some air samples yesterday. As per discussed with them, should there be any asbestos [...]
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AsbestosI planning on removing asbestos tiles from exterior of my home. I know all the dangers and know how to do it properly and cost efficiently but here is the question. Will my property value go up if I can show that I removed and properly disposed of asbestos?
Homes in my area have mix of [...]
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Asbestos
1-Do you have asbestos containing materials in your apt/ home?
2- Did you remove the asbestos? Encapsulate it?
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My leasing agreement said that my apartment contains asbestos, and that drilling into the walls would increase my exposure to it.
The company had the phone company drill holes into my walls(I did not request this, but I allowed them to do so). Now the leasing company(senior management) is refusing to check my [...]
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AsbestosI live in a high rise apartment building that has just been sold to a new owner. They are turning all the units into condos. The new mgmt company is a complete pain in the a@%! They have constuction crews onsite 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. But, that is not the real [...]
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I was in the middle of purchasing a house and the house inspector found there is a ‘broken transite vent pipe’ located in the attic. It looks like there were some contractors who did Air Conditioning installation work in the attic a while back and they somehow broke the transite vent pipe without knowing it’s [...]
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I live in California. An apartment I’m thinking about renting has a warning required by proposition 65.
The warning says my apartment contains asbestos and other harmful chemicals in the building materials and in “emissions, fumes, and smoke from resident and guest activities including but not limited to use of motor vehicles, barbecues, and tobacco [...]
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AsbestosWe purchased a commercial building /convenience store from the original builders that was built in the early 70’s, and after 2.5 years of daily exposure we found out that the walk-in cooler was lined with asbestos(not in the walls but was the finished wall). it was not disclosed to us at the time of purchase. [...]
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