Between 2015 and 2020, Lou Rubino inspected two homes in New City — two jobs, each with a written report, and the photographs below come from them. The reports cover two high ranches.
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Across the reports, the summaries listed 18 repair-or-replace items, most of them under the roof, chimney and attic, the exterior and the garage. A repair-or-replace item is HomeGauge's term for something that was not working as intended or needed a specialist's look — it is not a verdict on the house, and the full report explains each one with photographs.
New City is in Rockland County, and Lou covers it from his base in Wantagh the same way he covers every other place on this site: same licence, same report format, same-day report as a rule. The count above is history from his own files, not a service boundary — call or text 516-330-3870 and he will quote the actual property.
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Both photographs are from Lou's own New City inspection reports, chosen because they show a building component and nothing that identifies a property or an owner.
The Census puts the median year built for homes in zip code 10956 at 1968, and about 3% of the 9,892 housing units there were built before 1940. An older house is not a worse house, but its wiring, plumbing and roof were installed under different rules and replaced piecemeal, which is exactly what the inspection looks for. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2019–2023 5-year estimates, tables B25035 and B25034, ZCTA 10956.
Of 9,892 housing units in zip 10956, about 90% are detached single-family houses, 1% are two-unit buildings, and 94% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. A two-family or a co-op is a different inspection from a detached house: shared systems, common areas and what the board or the other unit controls. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2019–2023 5-year, tables B25024 and B25003, ZCTA 10956.
Town of Clarkstown Building Department. Permits and COs are kept by the municipality, not the inspector; checking them is a records search, usually through your attorney. The inspection reports the condition of what is there and flags work that typically needs a permit — a finished basement, a dormer, a moved panel — so you know what to ask about. Town of Clarkstown Building Department. New City is an unincorporated hamlet of Clarkstown (Town Hall, 10 Maple Ave, New City). Page lists Building Permits and Certificates of Occupancy as services.
Rockland homes fall under the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code (19 NYCRR), which applies everywhere in the State except New York City and is enforced locally by each town and village. Source: dos.ny.gov.
The Rockland County Department of Health oversees public water supply protection, well construction and residential well testing. The main public supplier is the investor-owned Veolia Water New York system, which the NYS DEC water-supply permit record describes as drawing on wells plus the Lake DeForest and Letchworth reservoirs. Rockland County Sewer District No. 1 (formed 1963) serves mainly the Towns of Ramapo and Clarkstown plus parts of Orangetown, with treatment plants in Orangeburg (28.9 MGD) and Hillburn. Septic systems elsewhere are regulated by the County Health Department, which reviews engineer-designed plans (NYS Appendix 75-A), inspects installations and must approve all repairs (Rockland County Sanitary Code Article IV). The inspection reports what the house actually has and its visible condition; a cesspool or septic system needs its own evaluation. Source: www.rocklandcountyny.gov.
Flood zones follow the address, not the town. OpenFEMA holds 3,480 NFIP claim records for Rockland County (FIPS 36087). Look the address up on FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center before you sign. Source: www.fema.gov.
Rockland County is in EPA Zone 3 (low potential) — Zone 3 counties have a predicted average indoor radon screening level below 2 pCi/L; EPA still recommends testing every home. NYSDOH's county estimate (Feb 2007, 2,118 homes measured) is 1.8% of living areas and 15% of basements above 4 pCi/L; Stony Point town is far higher at 10% of living areas and 36% of basements. Radon is a separate, optional test arranged alongside the inspection. Source: www.epa.gov.
Rockland's Private Well Testing (PWT) Law (Chapter 389 of the Laws of Rockland County) requires comprehensive testing by a registered laboratory on any property transfer or sale of a home served by a private well, for new wells, and for rentals (retest every 5 years or at sale); results are valid for one year. Source: www.rocklandcountyny.gov.
Any well drilling, maintenance, repair or decommissioning in Rockland requires a County Health Department permit and a registered well contractor. Source: www.rocklandcountyny.gov.
Across his reports in New City, the summaries listed 18 repair-or-replace items, most of them under the roof, chimney and attic, the exterior and the garage. Every one is in the written report with a photograph; see what a report looks like.
Lou quotes the actual property, not a flat rate — what drives the price is size, age and what is included. The written report arrives the same day as a rule; a large or complex house can run to the next morning. Call or text 516-330-3870.
Lou covers Long Island, the five boroughs and Westchester from his base in Wantagh, and the archive behind these pages shows where that work has actually concentrated.
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His New City file goes back to 2015. Yours would not be the first.
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