Guides

• How to Find the Year Your House Was Built

  Six reliable ways to pin down a build year: county records, permits, meter and panel tags, plat maps, fire insurance maps, and appliance date codes.

• The 4-Point Inspection: What Insurers Check and How to Prepare

  What a 4-point inspection covers (roof, electrical, plumbing, HVAC), which era items fail it, and how to prepare an older home before the inspector arrives.

• Questions to Ask Your Home Inspector, by System

  A master list of era-specific questions for your home inspector, grouped by system and generated from documented material eras.

• Home Insurance Red Flags by Building Era

  Which era-specific items trigger insurer questions — polybutylene, FPE panels, knob-and-tube — what they ask, and what documentation helps.