The Mostly Real Estate Podcast, with Declan Spring
Real estate market updates, and conversations of substance with people I admire, mostly in the field of residential real estate in the San Francisco East Bay Area. This show is both industry facing, and consumer facing, which makes it somewhat unique.
Listeners can access content about the state of the East Bay real estate market. The podcast also features local top-producing agents, brokers, rising stars, or agents who have simply niched down and can share their strategies.
Outside of real estate there are many conversations with local business owners, historians, politicians, and non-profits, people whom I believe provide value to the local community and enrich my experience of living here.
I've been a California licensed real estate agent since 2003 selling real estate mostly in the Inner East Bay cities and districts of Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, Albany, El Cerrito, and Kensington.
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The Mostly Real Estate Podcast, with Declan Spring
#23 Brian Cogley - Let's Talk About Home Inspections
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Brian Cogley is an American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Certified Inspector and a California Licensed General Contractor (#954299).
Brian has been inspecting residential and commercial buildings in the Bay Area since 2004. He has performed Condo-Conversion Inspections, Reserve Studies, BOMA Measurement Calculations, ADA Inspections, Cost Estimates, and consulted on new construction defects for litigation purposes. Additionally, he is featured on the cover and in the introduction of the popular book, The Complete Guide to Home Inspection.
In this conversation Brian and I talk about the benefit of a Home Inspection; the criteria for becoming a Home Inspector; the types of housing stock most commonly found in the east bay and the common vulnerabilities in construction methods through the decades; foundations; seismic retrofit; building codes; questions of code compliance and so much more. Click here to download a sample Cogley Inspections complete home inspection report.