by Bryan Standley | Oct 26, 2026 | Resources
In September, one of our inspectors inspected a 1990s ranch in Olathe with a walk-out basement. Walking around the outside, the inspector found several downspouts ending right at the base of the house. Some had no extension at all, so the water came straight down...
by Bryan Standley | Oct 26, 2026 | Resources
This October, one of our inspectors inspected a 1950s ranch in south Kansas City. It had a basement and a crawlspace. Up on the roof, the gutters were full of leaves. Leaves had piled up where two roof slopes meet, a long run of gutter along the roof edge was packed...
by Bryan Standley | Oct 26, 2026 | Resources
Late this summer, one of our inspectors inspected a 1950s ranch in north Leawood. It had a basement with concrete walls. Finished areas, storage and floor coverings hid parts of the basement, but cracks were visible in the walls we could see. Diagonal cracks ran down...
by Bryan Standley | Oct 26, 2026 | Resources
Earlier this year, two of our inspectors inspected a Kansas City, Kansas house built in the late 1930s. It had a basement, and the buyers had booked our Bundle & Save, with termite, radon, a sewer camera inspection and a floor plan. The item that mattered most was...
by Bryan Standley | Oct 23, 2026 | Resources
Our inspector recently walked down to the basement of a late-1970s two-story in Overland Park. It’s a typical Overland Park house of that era: a hip roof and a full basement with poured concrete walls. Along one basement wall were steel wall braces, and several...
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