Archive for November 7th, 2007

“Free Home Inspection”

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

home inspection reportGosh I could not help but notice an ad on the ActiveRain real estate network  for  ”Free Home Inspection”  Can home inspectors afford to do home inspections for free?

How?

BOGO? (it’s a shoe thing.)

Buy One Get One Free?

ActiveRain Sponsors

Free Home Inspection 

Logo  

614-XXX-XXXX
Central Ohio Inspections

Find out Here  <— a broken link

I clicked on the link and went to a page that says

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Please try the following:

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  • blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah 
  • blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah 
  • we’ve all seen these before…

Found it!  He’s a new member on ActiveRain, Steve Radabaugh of Preferred Property Inspection.

I sent Steve an email saying the link in the ad is not working.  I wonder if it is overwhelmed with traffic or just a bad link?

I had to look further… here’s the Free Home Inspection Offer on his website - Free Home Inspection  The rest of the story!

I don’t know Steve.  I am not recommending Steve… (since I don’t know him.)

Interesting ad! it got my attention.

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