Tomorrow at the Schoenbaum Center at 175 E. 7th Avenue, Columbus OH 43219 -  43201 Map there is a Green Home Fair, from the Columbus Green Building Forum.

The Columbus Green Building Forum website promises :

“Green products for Residential home construction/retrofit and everyday use.”

It’s FREE!

It’s open to the Public

The Green Home Fair is this Saturday, December  5^th from 1:00 to  4:30 p.m.  I heard about it from the Columbus Board of REALTORS®.

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Ich bin ein Oktoberfester?

“Ich bin ein Oktoberfester!”

Sprechen sie Duetsche?

Me neither.  I am not sure that is even spelled right.  I always said zie not sie but Google told me to go with an s.

In plain English?  Are you going to The Columbus Oktoberfest this weekend?

It’s at the Ohio Expo Center! (Ohio State Fair Grounds)  Lots of parking!  Parking is $8  a car.

Grab your liederhosen and go see what Marketplatz, Bier, Kinderplatz, Gartens, Vier Meiler, Schuhplattlers are all about.    Music, dancing, food, drink are what I remember from other years.

Columbus Oktoberfest 2009

More German lesson from the Columbus Oktoberfest website:

“Frie. Gratuity. = FREE! That’s right. Admission to the 2009 Columbus Oktoberfest is FREE! It’s our own way of providing economic stimulus to our community!”

“Ich bin ein Oktoberfester!”

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Question #8:  It is ever ok to treat  a moldy basement without removing the water source even when it’s just a damp basement (not leaking).Answer:  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES!  Every single mold clean up protocol ever credibly written states that the water source must be removed.  When the water source is a wet basement many realtors are reluctant to demand basement de-watering for the home in conjunction with mold clean up because they imagine their commission dwindling or the deal being killed.  A concrete block basement can hold hundreds or even thousands of gallons of water inside the cores without ever leaking on the floor.  The truth of the matter is: if the water source is not remedied, the mold problem will re-surface again raising liability issues for both realtor and broker.

Huh? Why would a real estate agent have a problem with the source of the water being corrected during a sale?  Listing agent? Buyers agent?  Of course this series if from a spam email sent to real estate agents.

If there’s a hole in the roof letting water intrude, you gotta fix it… same’s true on the other end of the house.  Is his fix the only fix? You’d think so from his spam email but there are reputable basement contractors in Central Ohio. 

If you discover your basement has problems during the sale of the property,  a good home inspector can refer you to reputable contractors who will remove the source of dampness, any leaks and the mold…

This is from a series from a spam email from a basement contractor.

How is your basement this morning after all the rain?

Wet Basement Quiz Question 7

Wet Basement Quiz Questions 5 & 6

Wet Basement Quiz Question 4

Wet Basement Quiz Question 3

Wet Basement Quiz Question 2

Central Ohio Wet Basement Quiz…

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I went to a company meeting recently but got there a little bit late. Good presentation, national speaker.  He’s all about home price but he kept mentioning “fake fruit.”

Huh?

The next morning I read a post from a California stager about fake fruit.  I loved the fact that Cindy Lin kept putting “Fake Food ” warnings in the post I read on ActiveRain that lead me to her real site. Staged 4 More- “Fake Fruit”   Cindy is writing about amatuerish vs. professional staging but all I am able to think about is fake fruit.

Builders stage homes in Central Ohio.  Some existing homes in Central Ohio are staged, but it is more DIY or Realtors® who have taken a staging course  or homeowners with talent.  Or all of the above without talent.

Warning I don’t think that apple pictured above is fake. If it takes too loooooong for your home to sell it will shrink, wither and rot.

I have to tell you a secret. Do you promise not to tell?  I grew up in a house with no fake fruit.  A fake fruit free home.  My neighbors on either side had a little girl my same age. Both homes had fake fruit as part of their day to day decor not in any effort to sell either  home… I was probably 5 or 6 when I was at the Wirkuty’s house next door and I bit into a wax pear.  I remember what it tasted like… Yuck!  Sorry neighbors.

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Sellers: What’s your home worth? Market Analysis Request … We can price it with or without fake fruit.

Buyers:

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Previously about staging on ColumbusBestBlog.com

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Douglas Garbe, an associate with Real Living Real Estate Solutions (in Orlando Florida)  shared Green Kitchen 101  on ActiveRain, a real estate network.

Douglas is committed to the environment and conservation.  His “Green Kitchen 101″ post is about how being “Green” around the house can save you green. 

“let us start with the kitchen:

• Buy a water filtration system.  Say no to expensive bottled water.
• Cloth napkins instead of paper… can be used several times before washing.
• Use less single-serve or single-use products… these products are more than 50% packaging.
• buy in bulk.  Avoid useless packaging.
• Always cover your pots when cooking.  It speeds up the process and saves energy.
• Let foods cool before putting them in the refrigerator, so as not to raise internal temperature.
   

If followed through for a whole year, the above six tips save the average home around $750.00 a year”

I am not sure I can do that last one… I am afraid of germs.  I know people used to wait to put food in the refrigerator and then it was considered safer healthwise to put still hot food directly in the refrigerator.  

Douglas’s source:  It’s easy being green, by Crissy Trask.  Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2006

At the Columbus Zoo on a recent visit I was struck again by how much they “preach” being green.  The new Asia Quest Exhibit has a lot about conservation including what we can all do at home, a lot of the same ideas above.  Lots of common sense stuff.

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