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
#27 Dan Marzilli - Let's Talk About Pest Inspections
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Dan Marzilli is a Pest Control Operator (aka Pest Inspector) with GT Inspects, currently based in Oakland. GT Inspects Inc. is a licensed Branch III operator in the State of California (Lic #PR7280). This is a companion piece to Episode #23, a conversation with Home Inspector Brian Cogley
Serving 30 cities in the East Bay, GT Inspects Inc. specializes in the following services:
- Structural termite inspections, including original inspections for real estate transactions
- Test openings for potential stucco moisture damage
- Competitive bids (free-of-charge)
- Chemical treatments for wood destroying pests and organisms
- Structural pest control repairs
In this conversation Dan and I talk about the benefit of a Pest Inspection; The criteria for becoming a Pest Control Operator; How a pest report is put together (click here far a sample pest report); What parts of a home are inspected and what parts are not; Various types of insects from termites, to beetles, and various types of fungus; The most common pest inspection findings in the East Bay housing stock; How to read a report to get the most out of it; Why damaged decks and windows are not always given a dollar value for repair; The differences between a Pest Control Operator's license and a General Contractor's License; We talk more than a few times about stucco test hole openings, and we talk about other daily aspects of the job.