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AIRWAYS VAC SERVICE CHIMNEYS CLEANED PROFESSIONALLY A Duct Spec Town Country nursery Plant Landscape Des gn Construct on of of PageS THE ALTON HILLS Wednesday April Home inspectors still busy When the real estate market boomed in the 1980s home in Carson Dunlop and Associates found their business grew right along with it In 1990 the boom ended But the home inspection business continued stronger then ever says Carson Dunlop It sounds like a paradox but our experience has been that benefited from both good times and bad times in the resale housing market says Bob cofounder of Canada s largest home inspection firm Inspections by Carson s engineers in the Toronto Hamilton area increased by ap proximately percent in 1990 the year that house sales plunged the firm reports Moreover with the recent return of feverish home buying among first time buyers the number of inspections has jumped again At Carson Dunlop inspections were up percent in January and February 1991 over the same period last year We have more houses to in spect now than at any other time in our history says Dunlop How does lie explain this parent contradiction During a real estate recession although fewer houses are pur chased a much larger tage of them are bought on the condition that they be inspected before the purchase is final says Dunlop When we had a sellers market in the late 1980s mam buyers couldn t make their offers conditional because they knew a dozen other buyers were lined up with unconditional offers That changed last year when the buyers got the upper hand A ven dor had to accept a conditional of fer because it could be the only one he got So why the continued growth now that part of the real estate market has come back Remember the home inspec tion industry is very young says Carson is one of the oldest such firms in the try and we were only founded in So all that time during both the good and the bad years we ve been developing credibility As more people have tried home in spections and found how much it saved them word has spread Now a home inspection is con a basic precaution that a buyer automatically considers So the people purchasing houses are continuing to demand inspec A buyer can save thousands of dollars by finding out before the sale is complt what repairs are necessary or likely to crop up in the near future The home inspection report from a Carson Dunlop engineer gives the purchaser the informs Hon necessary to make an in formed buying decision to opt out of a deal with significant repair costs or when no major problems are found to purchase with confidence For Carson customers the detailed report is in corporated in The Home Reference Book the most com source of information available on evaluating and maintainig a home Over the past 13 years Carson Dunlop has become synonymous with home inspections Getting a Carson Dunlop report has become standard practice for prudent purchasers BAILEY HEATING COOLING SALES INSTALLATION REPAIRS All Types of Healing Oil 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