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Unexpected Home Hazards: Our Journey from Building a Home to Finding Pigs in the Basement
Curious about the hidden pitfalls that could be lurking in your home or rental property? Join us on this riveting episode of the Standing Out in Ohio podcast, where we share our whirlwind journey from building a new home to the shock and awe of discovering three pigs living in a tenant's finished basement. We promise you'll come away with invaluable insights on why regular home inspections are not just a good idea—they're essential.
As we celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary and reflect on our entrepreneurial ventures, we'll also arm you with practical advice for maintaining your property investments. Whether you're a homeowner or a landlord, our real-life anecdotes and expert tips will help you safeguard your assets and avoid unexpected surprises. Don't miss out on these crucial lessons learned from years of experience in real estate and property management!
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Speaker 2:Hey everybody, Welcome to the Standing Out in Ohio podcast, Jim Troth, and of course with me is Laura, the office goddess, Hello everyone. All right, so it's been a while since we've done one. We've been busy. Very very very busy, yes, so getting the house built, getting things set up down there, running back and forth, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 3:Yes, it is pretty much done. Yes, this week.
Speaker 2:I think everything will be finished this week nice getting appliances thursday, thursday, so that'd be awesome. Yesterday was our 24th wedding anniversary. Yes, magical 24 year. I think 25th is the silver anniversary.
Speaker 3:I think so.
Speaker 2:Traditionally, I have no idea what those are. I don't either. I have to pull it up, Not that it matters really what they claim to have, but anyway, last 24 years have been very interesting. We got married, had two kids, started a home inspection company. Started a commercial building inspection company. Started an environmental testing company Started.
Speaker 3:Trothwood.
Speaker 2:Started Trothwood. Well, bought property started Tr trothwood decided to build a house there and get that done. So 24 years we got a lot of stuff busy and we've seen a lot of stuff, like yesterday like yesterday oh good this is. This is the importance of having your home your house inspected every five years at the minimum, and if you're a landlord, you should get inspected probably every time your tenant changes out.
Speaker 3:No, that's at minimum After what we saw yesterday. Every six months yeah.
Speaker 2:So We've got a story for you. We've got to talk to you about that, but first let's listen to this.
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Speaker 2:All right, laura. So radon is supposed to get tested every two years, according to the EPA.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 2:Homes. Your house should get inspected every five years. Somebody come and take a look at it. It's maintenance inspection, it's just like a whole house inspection, but it could be cut back a little bit. Say, hey, I just got a roof done, don't look at the roof. Just cut some things out.
Speaker 3:Or I just got my roof done. Can you check and make sure it's right?
Speaker 2:yeah, that's right we had that too yeah, oh yeah. We have definitely had where we check a new house and it's roof out and they did not do a good job. I remember that one another roof it was just held up with caulking and prayers I remember that you came out when you were just utterly amazed. Yeah, it would have lasted maybe a year and then there would have been tons of water coming in around that chimney. It was just terrible, Anyway, yesterday man we did a maintenance inspection.
Speaker 3:We did a maintenance inspection.
Speaker 2:Property maintenance company is first time they're helping out this landlord and the maintenance guy goes hey, let's do an inspection on the place, figure out what's going on. Smart move Gives you a starting base so you know where you're at. Holy cow, no, holy pig, batman, holy pig.
Speaker 2:This place. Of course, we're not going to tell you the address or anything like this, but there were three pigs in a pen down inside this finished basement, finished basement, finished basement. I'm looking at a picture right now, man. I don't know what they have on the floor, but there's obviously mud there that you can see a hvac register right behind it it's just nasty. So you never know what you're going to find in a house and you let your tenants go and you're not checking on them. Man, they can wreck the place.
Speaker 3:I would say, at minimum twice a year, Be on the safe side quarterly.
Speaker 2:I mean, how many times did-. If you want something really little, hey, can you go check. Can you please, once a year, check the gutter down spots, make sure they don't get damaged? You don't even need to go in the house even at that point. I know you don't know what's going on.
Speaker 3:I know how many times did we walk into a place that we were renting and go. Oh my God, what did they do here?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. But my thought is once a year, because you've got tenant turnover once a year, whole house inspection, but also part-time during that year, which makes it easy because you don't need to build a 10-minute schedule trying to figure that out. But you got people moving in and out easy. That makes it easy. Those are out, go right before somebody moves in, get it done. But, man, you had farm animals and I guess there were some Goats no, not goats, was it ducks inside there?
Speaker 3:Yeah, man, I just cannot believe that there were three filthy looking pigs down there it was a mess Wizard gecko type creature and then eight other aquarium type things that had covers over them no idea, but there were significant bowing in the foundation which grading.
Speaker 2:They know the grading was bad or down some of the bad years ago. They could have prevented this.
Speaker 3:This is now a costly thing to fix Cracking Bowen but, man, you just never know what your tenants are doing in here and a lot of things are easy to fix, especially when you first catch them, which is going to cut down a lot on costs for landlords and make the investment pay for itself faster, because you have the little things caught before they're big.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there are definitely issues with this place, but just amazing that you let things go. You're not checking on people.
Speaker 2:How bad it can really get. It's not the tenants property. Some tenants do not care and they will not take care of your stuff, which is why you really need to get looked at. I mean, they're not going to trim the trees, get way up with the roof and the branches of the tree will damage your roof. There are gaps in the sides of this place. The sink I think it was the kitchen. They disconnected the drain line, so they did. Supposedly they didn't use it, but somehow they turned the water onto the sink. It's just going to flood right into that cabinet beneath.
Speaker 3:That is insane.
Speaker 2:I mean we, everybody, has a certain standard of living and you've got to realize that your standard of living Is not the same, may not be the same as your tenant, they may not care. I mean, here's some electrical issues on this place. I mean you can't rent out a house if it's been burned down from electrical fire. Yeah, definitely something like cracks going on in this place, probably coming from the foundation, because they didn't take care of the gutters and downspouts.
Speaker 3:That looks like asbestos siding. Actually it could be.
Speaker 2:It could be. If it's in good shape, you can take care of it.
Speaker 3:Oh, I wouldn't mind it at all. It's going to keep fire from getting to it.
Speaker 2:Fine, leave it there, but there's just crazy stuff in here here. All right, you need your tenants to be alive so they can continue to pay you.
Speaker 2:If you think on that level, yeah, Well, here is the gas exhaust pipe, for, I'm thinking, the furnace. We don't know what they used to patch the hole in the exhaust, but at least they knew not to let that carbon monoxide come into their place. It looks like it was some kind of putty they put on the gas pipe, the exhaust pipe, to get the carbon monoxide out. Oh, good lord, at least they did that. At least they did that. Flames were not right as best as tape, of course, but which is easily taken care of. You can just encapsulate that.
Speaker 3:They don't change the filter, quite obviously.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's hard on your equipment, which means you're going to be replacing an HVAC system sooner you don't want to replace an HVAC system. It will last as long as possible.
Speaker 3:Oh, and look how dusty that is, holy crap.
Speaker 2:One of the flames are yellow on this thing. But and there's other safety issues, things in this place not taken care of my favorite was around the well, not my favorite. My favorite was the pigs. That's the most unique thing and the nastiest really. But in the shower you have your tile around the surround. Apparently that is gone, so they took a bath mat and somehow glued the bath mat up against the wall in order to keep water from getting behind there.
Speaker 3:At least they knew not to let the water get behind, yeah, but it's not their place.
Speaker 2:They're going to do it as cheaply as possible. And yes, there's plumbing leaks everywhere. There's several places, I should say at least. But anyway, it's really important to have your home inspected. If it's your house every five years, I'm assuming you're going to take care of your house, or if it's you're renting it out, you need to get it inspected. A lot Change of tenants, any change of tenant, because the next tenant may say no, no, I didn't break it, the previous guy did. I know you probably have a maintenance guy, maybe take a look at it, double-check things, but still you need a third party to take a look at it. And examine things.
Speaker 3:Then it's not a.
Speaker 2:he said, she said Correct, correct, it's the third party that took care of it and you can always do different levels of inspections for the most part, but I would encourage a whole house inspection once every couple years, kind of things you have all the time Tenant.
Speaker 3:If you do, then it should be once a year.
Speaker 2:Yeah well, you have a tenant and they've been in the inspection and they've taken good care of it. Stretch it out. They're taking good care of it, but still keep an eye on it. This place had a fireplace also, which I personally would not want a tenant to have access to or a reason or permission to set fire inside the house.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's in the fireplace, but you're setting fire inside your house. It's not the safest thing in the first, but you're setting fire inside your house. It's not the safest thing in the first place. You've got to be careful. So that's all I got on this one, laura. It's like holy cow. We got pigs Because I saw that pigs come across text. I was like what Group text, jack, I'm like what. What Are we out at a farm today?
Speaker 3:no, no we were not not in the farm, we were in a big city we were in a we're in columbus somewhere.
Speaker 2:So, yep, I wasn't. I was in columbus, not out, not out of rural area, no, but nobody doing a 4-h project. Apparently the 4-h is over. Piggies would have been sold by now, yeah. So anyway, I think it's about it on this one, but uh, yeah, always get inspected Project, apparently Before H is over.
Speaker 3:Biggie's would have been sold by now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so anyway, I think that's about it on this one. But yeah, always get inspected, and if you're a landlord or you're a property maintenance company, you need to get inspected so you know what's going on.
Speaker 3:You put that baseline.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, it also shows you're not neglectful of the tenants Slumlord. Yeah, you're not a slumlord taking care of them and just letting things slide because you're not putting any money to help make sure people live in a safe, clean place. So I think that's it on this one, Yep. Thank you everybody. Bye.
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