Q. We’re renovating our home and building a substantial addition. After many months of planning and bids, a zoning variance and permits, the construction just started, and immediately the contractor called to say we have high groundwater.
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Monte Leeper
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5/17/12
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Q. My son wants to be an architect, and he’s applying to different schools. How would you recommend choosing a school?
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Monte Leeper
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5/10/12
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Q. Here’s a doozy for you. I live in Rockville Centre, three blocks from the RVC high school, but I’m in the Baldwin School District (which drops the value of my home by at least $100,000, according to a real estate agent).
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Monte Leeper
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5/3/12
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Q. We’re starting a big construction job (big for us) on our home. Are there any pointers you can give on things to look for so we don’t wind up with problems later?
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Monte Leeper
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4/26/12
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Q. I read your recent column “Where’s the property line?” and I have a different question about a property line. My neighbor has trees that overhang my property.
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Monte Leeper
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4/19/12
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Q. I think I have bad cement in my new driveway. I hired a construction company to give me a 4- to 5-inch-deep driveway last October.
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Monte Leeper
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4/5/12
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Q. This is a simple question, but one I’ll bet a lot of your readers have. We’re having a dispute with one of our neighbors regarding our property line.
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Monte Leeper
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3/30/12
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Q. I’ve been interviewing architects and contractors for a big renovation to my home, and I’m confused by the answers I get to whether the contractors are licensed and whether the architects are AIA.
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Monte Leeper
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3/22/12
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Q. I built a house and moved in five years ago. From the beginning we had problems with water in our basement, but we applied modest fixes that we thought would alleviate the problem.
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Monte Leeper
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3/16/12
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Q. We can’t seem to get electrical plans for our house. We checked our Building Department, and there’s no record of the lights, circuits, anything.
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Monte Leeper
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3/8/12
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