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...
by Bryan Standley | Oct 22, 2026 | Resources
We went back through 1,335 of our own home inspection reports from across the Kansas City area, on both sides of the state line, and counted how often each problem showed up. Here’s what we find most, how it changes from one part of the metro to the next, and...
by Bryan Standley | Oct 21, 2026 | Resources
In September 2026, our inspector climbed onto the roof of a 1922 two-story in south Kansas City. It’s a classic older Kansas City house: about 1,900 square feet, a gable roof, a brick chimney, and a basement with fieldstone foundation walls. The chimney crown is...
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