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		<title>Rusted Rods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look at the welded rode at the bottom. Note they are not rusted and their in no water leakage. Why replace it if it’s not broken. Remember this beauty needs 50 cubic feet of combustion air 1,000 btu of size. Is the basement 50,000 square feet?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2012/01/rusted-rods</link>
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		<title>Up and Close Real Estate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After having spent the last few days reading articles from around the country that comment on the real estate industry, there is still no answer about where the market is going. Everybody’s talking about the real estate buying process. Articles such as “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Home Inspection?”, “When Home Inspections Go Bad” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2012/01/up-and-close-real-estate</link>
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		<title>Consumer education limits poor choices.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomacor has helped create the Illinois Predatory Lending Law while assisting the U.S. Attorney in pursuing predatory criminals. A west side real estate company bought FHA repossessed property, then lent down payment money to unsuspecting consumers who bought these properties at above market prices thinking they were “rehabbed”, when they were only cosmetically altered. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2011/12/consumer-education-limits-poor-choices</link>
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		<title>Tomacor Pulse: Housing Market Held Down by Worried First Time Buyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomacor Pulse Housing Market Held Down by Worried First Time Buyers by Derek Kravitz http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/housing-market-remains-stuck-first-time-buyers_n_1120891.html Having read Mr. Kravitz’s column, I think he misses the mark. Accountability is needed in the housing market. The housing market isn’t down due to the mortgage qualification standards or our bad credit rating or even student loans. It’s down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2011/12/tomacor-pulse-housing-market-held-down-by-worried-first-time-buyers</link>
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		<title>Creating Good Real Estate Options for Illinois Home Buyers: Not an Option in Illinois</title>
		<description><![CDATA[State Senators and Representatives have chosen to thwart Illinois home buyers from clear disclosure in 2012 and beyond. As if the real estate equation wasn&#8217;t oppressive enough already! As of January 1st, 2012, the state will place into law the new Illinois Home Inspector Licensing Act. This act intimidates good inspectors from doing their job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2011/12/creating-good-real-estate-options-for-illinois-home-buyers-not-an-option-in-illinois</link>
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		<title>Our Public Seminars Are Generating This Kind of Feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thank you for offering this program. It is valuable and informative and I hope we will see more people.&#8221; Bruce Fox Chief Librarian, Roden Branch Library]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2011/12/our-public-seminars-are-generating-this-kind-of-feedback</link>
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		<title>Plenty of Jobs in the Building Inspection Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 6, 2011 at 7:00pm Tomacor is holding another Open House for those who are interested in a new career, building inspection. Jobs are available and all it takes is hard work, a little hustle, and a willingness to speak to people about what you can do for them. On Tuesday, Tom Corbett will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2011/11/plenty-of-jobs-in-the-building-inspection-industry-2</link>
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		<title>Condo Association Testimonial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Tom, Hope this finds you well. I&#8217;m emailing because you guys did such a great job assessing my apartment, And my now-husband&#8217;s (Mike) apartment, And our close friends house as well as my whole condo association (Shorelane Condominium association). My condo association was so impressed with the report you guys did for me that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2011/11/condo-association-testimonial</link>
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		<title>Make Money in Real Estate; Remodel without Permit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I completed an inspection last week in one of the northern suburbs. A familiar deficiency was noted: major remodeling of such a poor quality that it could not have included a building permit. Some inspectors like Tomacor note this and demand the seller provide the building permit and blueprint. Other inspectors feel this type of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2011/11/make-money-in-real-estate-remodel-without-permit</link>
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		<title>Plenty of Jobs in the Building Inspection Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 21, at 7:00pm Tomacor is holding another Open House for those who are interested in a new career, building inspection. Jobs are available and all it takes is hard work, a little hustle, and a willingness to speak to people about what you can do for them. On Monday, Tom Corbett will discuss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tomacor.com/2011/11/plenty-of-jobs-in-the-building-inspection-industry</link>
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