Reporting that starts where the advice runs out.
Drawer 1: 17 cards filed in this section
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
The person who inspects your damage and the person who approves the money are usually two different people now. Knowing which is which changes how fast a claim moves.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
A dining room oak floor dries in ten days, reads fine, gets sanded, and crowns the following spring. The decision that caused it was made in somebody else's schedule.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
Water mitigation cannot be compressed, but it can be documented, and the sensors and daily logs that prove a house is dry have changed more in five years than in the twenty before.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 5 min |
A drying job ends when moisture readings in your own house say it does, not when the rental clock on the equipment runs out. Here is how to hold that line.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 5 min |
A first-year homeowner's ice dam claim, followed from the 7 a.m. phone call to the depreciation check, and the paperwork that decided how long each stage took.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
Small neglect compounds because one material's failure becomes the next material's environment. Here is how that works week to week, and where the first year sets the clock.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 5 min |
A first-year homeowner's guide to what routine upkeep really costs, what drives the price up, and how long each booking takes to land on the calendar.
| Author | Tomasz Zielinski |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
When the budget is tight, the cost of drying is set less by the equipment rental than by four other trades and how well their schedules line up behind it.
| Author | Tomasz Zielinski |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
A management company handling a few hundred scattered rentals stopped scheduling maintenance by calendar and attached it to visits already on the books. Here is how that came about.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 5 min |
The person cleaning your kitchen on Thursday works for someone, and which someone it is decides how a broken lamp, a missed week, or a scratched floor gets settled.
| Author | Tomasz Zielinski |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
Deferred upkeep does not cost the same everywhere. Local ordinances, climate, and who can legally inspect all change what a missed interval turns into.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
|---|---|
| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
The national name on the truck is rarely the entity that dispatched the crew, employs the technician, or answers when something in the first two days needs putting right.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
|---|---|
| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
Maintenance that gets done is usually maintenance with an outside deadline attached, and knowing who the technician actually works for decides what happens when the work needs putting right.
| Author | Constance Marlowe |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
The small failures in a house used to get caught by whoever was already standing there. Here is how the booking chain changed, and how to write noticing back into the job.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 5 min |
A first-year homeowner assumed hiring out the gutters was buying back a Saturday. The visit turned out to be worth more for what it caught than for the hours it saved.
| Author | Tomasz Zielinski |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 4 min |
A remote owner's hour-by-hour account of a burst water heater upstairs, and how to tell which early decisions are reversible and which quietly are not.
| Author | Aurelia Bassett |
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| Section | Home & Property |
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| Reading | 5 min |
Households fail at maintenance schedules for reasons a commercial building solved decades ago: no asset list, no completion record, and no place to put the paperwork.