
Back to Basics: The ABC's of Filing A Claim for Your Crumbling Basement
- By Brian McCarthy
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HST Home Selling Team is pleased to offer the last lot in Aurora Estates, 12 Jackson Lane in Mansfield Center. This lot is the last for sale in a 6-lot subdivision of New England-style attractive homes. Soils are great on this 2.25-acre lot, without ledge, water, or wetlands. The lot is lightly wooded with some larger trees to add [...]

Coming in Hot! How to care for your paved driveway in the summer
I recently had the top part of my driveway replaced in front of the garage and because the remainder was still in excellent condition after 20 years, had an “overlay” over the remainder. Not once in the 12 years I have lived here have I thought about the driveway or [...]

Many milestones were met or exceeded this year in the efforts to aid homeowners with crumbling basements in Eastern and Central Connecticut. Amassing funds from state bond allotment, the Healthy Homes surcharge, interest, and donations, the [...]

“I am really disappointed and quite frankly a little angry. My husband and I went to go look at 27 Snipsic Lake Road in Ellington, CT. We were going to make an offer, but thankfully my husband did some digging and found out the house has a foundation issue. I think it is sneaky and probably illegal not to disclose that information to
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If you are an active or pending claimant in line for replacement funding the news coming from CFSIC is very encouraging, as long as you are fully participating and doing your part. With $100 million in new funding over 4 years beginning July 1, 2022, CFSIC will begin to address the 600+ Pending Claimants 3-4 years earlier than previously [...]

As a local real estate company in Mansfield we are experiencing increasing contact with homeowners new to the pending claimant status at Connecticut Foundation Solutions Idemnity Company (CFSIC). Confusion abounds about the meaning of this status and the implications for sellers and buyers.
Although CFSIC has been very clear about what a pending claimant is and is not, it seems people are either not reading or failing to grasp the concise and plentiful information that flows [...]

We are looking for a good realtor to sell our home. Would prefer your best agent. Home is very well maintained, we've been prepping for sale for a while. Our foundation is perfect (with engineers report) but we do have a low percentage of pyrrhotite in the core samples. The Realtor we have been planning to use told me today we'd have to
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The annual report and audit report for Connecticut Foundations Solutions Idemnity Company (CFSIC) was published recently on the CFSIC website and it is chock full of information and some great infographics that convey the information in a concise and easy to read format. Here are some takeaways:
40 Number of Northeast CT towns affected
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This is a Cliff Notes version of concrete news. I encourage everyone to read up on this subject as it will eventually affect all homeowners in at least central and eastern CT and MA. The best sources are [...]
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