Understanding a Home Inspection is designed as a guide for consumers as well as inspectors. Use of the guide should promote a better understanding of inspected systems and components while creating a consistency of inspection quality. Within Understanding A Home Inspection a home is divided into thirteen sections. Each section is then broken down into individual systems and components, 116 areas of inspection in all. Each and every one of the 116 listed areas of inspection contains a stand alone set of guidelines. When put together, these guidelines are the essentials that lay the foundation...

We have all heard of the dog days of summer, but few of us know what they really are. Green knows; his life began during those dog days in the summer of 2005. From the very beginning he had to fight to survive, and now, he tells his story. In this book Green, a Golden Retriever, from Mesa, Arizona tells his touching story of survival. Green tells of his rescue at less than two weeks of age and of the volunteers that saved him. He tells of his brothers, sisters and of two other litters of puppies that were rescued that summer. He also tells of the medical condition that threatened his life and...