Steven L. Smith, Bellingham, WA Home Inspector (King of the House)

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Steve's Greatest Hits And B Sides

I was looking at my statistics the other day and found that my first serious activity at Active Rain was one year ago yesterday, as in last Sunday. Wow, how time flies when you are getting all wet in the rain.

A while back, a friend had suggested that he had positive comments by posting, or re-posting, links to blogs that were popular. I decided to do the same thing here, with a twist. I am posting, for you to review, five of my most popular blogs, all featured by AR over the past year. I weeded through the featured blogs and put links to some that I liked.

Below that is the twist: I am posting five also rans. Read that this way -- bombs, stinkers, turkeys, losers. They were just slightly more popular than skunks at a wedding reception.

I think all of us have written more than a few of those types of blogs. We like them but nobody reads them. Why? Sometimes it has to do with the time of day, or even what else is on the site that day. 

Loser blogs, which the last five below might be, were personally selected from many choices because I thought that they were better, or more interesting, than statistics might otherwise indicate. I hope you find something here that you consider to be worthwhile. Many of them focus on wood destroying organisms, which is an area I have special interest in.

Five featured blogs that earned significant points and comments:

Home inspection, it is all about straightening the pictures on the wall

Carpenter ant infestation in all its glory

Electric heaters and related fire hazards

Duties and scope of a professional home inspector

Moisture ant infestion (most people had never heard of this pest)

Five never weres that floated like yellow submarines:

Cell phone towers and the trouble companies go to to hide them 

Spoof of home inspector lingo and acronyms

New wood destroying organism in WA State per WSDA

Fattening up the wood destroying organisms at your home

Anobiid beetles and their path of destruction

Steven L. Smith

Bellingham WA Home Inspections

 

        

        

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2 comments • Steven L. Smith, Bellingham, Wa. Home Inspector • April 14 2008 11:48PM

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Steven, you've worked hard on another blog.  And it has lots of good info in it.  I think the ones that bombed are great ones but the long paragraphs were daunting and skipped.  (I do that myself.)  Why don't you just resubmit everyone of those one day at a time and we'll have time to read them again!  Shorten the paragraphs with your new fancy look.  You really do such good work!
Posted by Barbara S. Duncan, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR (RE/MAX Advantage) almost 4 years ago

Thanks Barbara. I am trying to make things more eye appealing. Had not, previously known how to change the font.....althought working in html is a bit of a pain in my book, or somewhere at least.
Posted by Steven L. Smith, Bellingham, Wa. Home Inspector (King of the House Home Inspection, Inc) almost 4 years ago

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