[terry1156]

Talking with people in the neighborhood can save you a lot of grief. I had a friend who was about to buy "the perfect" house. he couldn't find a thing wrong with it and couldn't believe the deal he was getting. Then he started chatting with some people in the neighborhood and found out that in summer (it was winter time so he had no idea) the area was covered with a stench that nobody could figure out where it was coming from. This had been going on for 2 summers and still they weren't sure. Of course, he would have found out the hard way had he not been talking to them.