Home inspection in Laurel.

Mixed, and worth looking at closely. Laurel was platted in 1880 and incorporated in 1902, so the oldest houses here sit on hand-laid stone or early unreinforced concrete that has had a century of freeze-thaw and seasonal clay movement working on it. The key question is whether the movement stopped: old stair-step cracking with no fresh edges reads differently than a crack with clean faces and debris below it. Interior parging or paint can hide what the wall is doing, and it is worth asking whether footings sit below the depth the local building department requires.

Plan on two to three hours for an average home; larger, older or multi-unit properties run longer because there is simply more to document.