good article Kurt

[John Dirks Jr]

ASHI Reporter August 2016

I just got caught up on my reading of the ASHI Reporter. Kurts article - The Art of High-Rise and Condo Inspections - was a good read. I bit of a drift from the usual and I get every bit of it. It helps give me confidence in the way I do things.

Thanks Kurt!

[kurt]

Thanks. A few of the young guys called or wrote to say they liked it. Technically, it was generic with a few good nuggets, but conceptually, I said something I thought needed saying.

[Marc]

Stellar writing. There's subtle lessons in there for most readers that go beyond high-rises and condo's, like 'see how little you actually know' and 'everything you thought you knew is wrong'.

Reminds me of a term I learned just a few days ago that's pandemic in our profession: Bystander Effect. Folks uninformed tend to accept what groups believe in order to feel accepted by the group. Truth takes a vacation.

Marc

[kurt]

Stellar is undeserved, but thanks. I beat out the main part of it in an hour or so at the coffee shop. Staff @ ASHI HQ had good edits and recommendations; they made it better and were easy to work with.

[Nolan Kienitz]

Damn good article Kurt.

[Jim Baird]

Link, pls.

[Les]

http://www.ashireporter.org/HomeInspect ... ions/14909

[Jim Baird]

Kurt gets the A+ grade for this assignment.

I take some comfort in the comments of a geologist in a New Yorker story about a fossil-hunting trip in New Jersey. The reporter asked the scientist who led the fossil excursion what he thought about the strip-mall style buildings they sat among while eating ice cream on a break.

The scientist gave a dismissive wave of the hand and said, "We just call all of this kind of stuff 'ephemera', as it will not last long and will leave few traces."

[kurt]

Ha! It was sort of an assignment. Frank called and asked me to write a condo inspection article, so I did.

I appreciate all the comments very much. I spitball stuff constantly, sometimes it works and sometimes it's really bad. This one ended up sounding like I wanted it to, and when other people hear it, it's the coolest thing.

[Rob Amaral]

Indeed a good article Kurt... ! Macro-micro.. It's our job..