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Plain-language articles on what inspections find, what it means, and what to do about it.

  • Inspection tips
  • Buyer guides
  • Seasonal maintenance
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Watercolour illustration of a home inspector walking up to a front porch carrying a tool bagBuying a home

What to Expect During a Home Inspection

What actually happens on inspection day, how long it takes, whether you should attend, and what lands in your inbox afterwards.

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Common Problems Found in Older Toronto Homes

Knob-and-tube, aluminium wiring, galvanised piping and basement moisture: the findings that recur in pre-1980 stock, and which ones matter.

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New Construction? What Your Tarion Inspection Covers

Pre-delivery, 30-day and year-end inspections explained, including which deadline people miss most often.

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Home inspector on a suburban rooftop examining a chimneyBuying a home

Should You Attend Your Own Home Inspection?

Reading that a furnace is near the end of its life is not the same as standing next to it. What you get out of being there, and when to arrive.

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How to Read a Home Inspection Report

Why findings are ranked, what a photograph is doing there, and how to tell a cracked outlet cover from something that changes your offer.

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Buying a Condo: What an Inspection Actually Covers

What is yours to maintain inside the unit, what the corporation looks after, and why a condo inspection is shorter than a house.

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Pre-Listing Inspections: Why Sellers Book Them

Finding what a buyer's inspector would find, while you still control the timing, the quotes and what gets disclosed.

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Home inspection report and reference documents laid out on a deskHome maintenance

A Seasonal Maintenance Checklist for Ontario Homes

What to check each spring and autumn on a GTA property, and the small jobs that prevent the expensive findings later.

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Written to answer real questions

These are not keyword pages. Each guide answers something buyers and sellers genuinely ask before, during and after an inspection.

  • 01Buying a homeWhat to expect, and what to ask
  • 02Home maintenanceWhat ages, and when
  • 03New constructionTarion windows and deadlines

More are published as they are written. If there is something you want covered, say so when you call.

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