Mar. 21—The Cumberland County Commission approved an updated fee schedule for the residential and commercial building codes department with a life safety/occupancy inspection fee of $250. This is the ...

Picture this. You're standing in your dream home, watching the inspector move through every room with a clipboard and flashlight. You assume they're documenting everything wrong with the place. Here's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether or not anything in your home is in fact "to code" is a mystery to most homeowners. Depending on the work that's been done ...

People often refer to inspections in generic terms–and in so doing, get the entire concept of code enforcement mixed up. An inspection is an inspection, right? The answer is no. For those involved in ...

In last week's blog post, which I did not post here on the Star Tribune, I mentioned that there is an upcoming seminar for Minnesota home inspectors, being taught by building code guru Douglas Hansen ...