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11-Month Warranty Inspection · Imogene, IA

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Imogene

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Imogene · Fremont County

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Imogene

11-Month Warranty Inspection in Imogene, Fremont County, by Closer Look Inspectors. Imogene is a very small Fremont County city of about 0.49 square miles that once had a railroad depot.

An 11-month warranty inspection times a full review to the end of a builder's first-year warranty — so the settlement cracks, nail pops and grading issues a first Iowa winter reveals get repaired on the builder's dime.

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Modern white farmhouse-style home with black windows and dark garage doors — 11-Month Warranty Inspection in Imogene, IAImogene
Local housing

Homes in Imogene.

Imogene housing runs to houses from the years around the town's 1910 peak of 341 residents, with a thin mix of postwar and newer homes since the population fell through the later 1900s, across the compact townsite of about half a square mile and the farm ground and acreages around it, on loess-mantled hills of the Southern Iowa Drift Plain in Fremont County — and that mix shapes what a 11-month warranty inspection here needs to find.

Local conditions in Imogene

No Iowa law requires a home inspection before a sale — the one mandatory time-of-transfer inspection covers private septic systems (Iowa Code 455B.172) — which makes an independent inspection the only thorough, buyer-side read on an Imogene home. Imogene sits in Fremont County, and every Iowa county is EPA Radon Zone 1. Iowa HHS reports Iowa has the largest percentage of homes above the 4.0 pCi/L action level of any state — 71.6 percent in the Iowa Radon Survey — and the Iowa seller disclosure form asks for any known radon test results. Finished basements concentrate it, and only a 48-hour test gives you this home's number. Iowa leaves frost depth to the local building code rather than one statewide number, and the annual freeze-thaw cycle drives the settlement cracks and ice-dam wear that Imogene-area homes face.

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Questions

Common questions.

When exactly do I schedule it?
Around month eleven, leaving time to file the report before the one-year warranty closes.
What does it find?
Issues a full freeze-thaw cycle exposes — cracking, nail pops, and HVAC and grading items.
Imogene has only a few dozen residents. How do I tell whether a house is on city sewer or its own septic system?
Ask the seller and confirm it in writing, because in a town this small you should not assume either way. Look for a cleanout, a lid or a riser in the yard, the plumbing exit point in the basement or crawl space, and whether there is a well or rural water meter. If the property has its own septic system, Iowa requires an inspection of it before the property transfers under Iowa Code 455B.172, so the system's location, age and pump-out history matter early. Roof runoff and grade around the foundation matter too. Fremont County is EPA Radon Zone 1, so a radon test belongs in the basement review.
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