Doing a mild inspection with pictures- My inspection would consist of identifying appliances, capital expenses, and overall condition such as moisture or structural issues, This will include a lot of pictures approx 100-1505. finding an investor to flip the property to. 

Most 100 year old houses are going to have some level of moisture in the basement, though. 

There was not sufficient ventilation in the laundry room or back bathroom to keep moisture from accumulating (note: there is a window and a door).

Personally, I would have used all hard pipe there on the exterior using a 90* elbow right at the wall penetration.

all of the houses in 1 sq mile are cookie cutter 1950's brick ranches. that street in particular is no different. lawns are nice, very nice looking on the outside. but when you go inside, 80% are still stick in 1970's.i am trying to post a picture of the windows, to show how bad they looked. these are steel pan windows that had rusted over the years and moisture was killing the window. cold air was leaking and furnace bills were sky high.seems like the picture is huge and have no idea how to resize it.

just wondering what the ideal humidity is inside a home in winter time when the gas furnace eats up all moisture??

Inadequate ventilation stores air and moisture and heats it up in your roof in the summer and turns it into a wood warping, mold sporing, shingle cracking orgy of expenses.

It's calcium, and if you have this, it probably means there has been water penetration over a relatively long period of time (i.e., not a one-time issue)...

Looks like crappy particle-board that picked up too much moisture (perhaps just from being in a vacant house too long).Most likely nothing to worry about...just cover it up with some shelf liner and/or paint...

This question is targeted to those landloards and investors that handle properties that are remote from them (ie several states away).

How do you guys manage them? Do you ever see the house prior to your purchase?
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