
Back to Basics: The ABC's of Filing A Claim for Your Crumbling Basement
- By Brian McCarthy
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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 [...]

If you are a seller, be prepared to vacate the home for the duration of the inspection. A typical inspection will take 2-3 hours for an averaged sized (2,000 square feet +/-) home. The buyer(s) will meet the home inspector of their choice at the home. The home inspector must be licensed, registered with the state and [...]

“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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We are now in the midst of a global pandemic. There is so much that we don’t know about the virus such as why a young and otherwise healthy person becomes ill and an elderly person manages to survive. It is the randomness and insidiousness that is so frightening and makes us question what the future holds in store. Basic assumptions you [...]
Sellers are facing life changing decisions as they navigate the crumbling basement epidemic plaguing their homes and their neighbors. Many homeowners with homes just 10-15 years old are testing positive for pyrrhotite via a core test or a visual inspection and are undecided about what to do next. Some owners can stay and hope for more [...]

There are 75 families to date back in their homes after their foundations were replaced thanks to CFSIC.
We hired 3 new agents! Welcome Sondra, Reid, Hongilan Wu and Katie St. Germain.
The remodeled Grange Hall on Storrs Road in Mansfield Center, which looks spectacular and will make Mansfield Center a destination location hopefully resulting in more growth and beautification. [...]
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