Homexam Personnel

Larry Dominus Reavis renovated his first building in 1962. He began doing home inspections when, after receiving his Ph.D. (Ohio State, 1967), he and the Director of Southern Methodist University’s Institute of Urban Studies signed a contract with the Dallas Dept. of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation to design and direct a survey of 10,000 Dallas homes. After eight years at SMU, he began renovating houses full-time in the mid-1970s. Formerly licensed as a master electrician, plumber, and Class-A building contractor (Virginia licenses), he has taught many training seminars for home inspectors. He also has produced articles, books, software, videos and CD-ROMs for the profession.


EARLY INTEREST IN HOUSES

Just after his fifth birthday, a major wind passed through his family’s town. When he heard the postman say that the wind took off the roof of a house not far away, he pestered his parents to see it with such vigor that they finally gave in (see photograph).

INTEREST IN ELECTRONICS

His interest in electronics began at age 10 when an uncle gave him a crystal set kit. By age 12 he had passed the license test to become a “ham” radio operator. During his teens and early 20s he built more than 40 transmitters (about half of which he designed himself), in addition to single-sideband exciters, receivers, and other equipment. Beginning with his second year of college, he designed and built apparatus for research in psychology at four institutions of higher learning. In recent years, he designed and built logic circuits for automating factory machinery.

     Joie Dominus Reavis , Administrator, with a B.A. in English literature and pre-med, was accepted into medical school in 1977. Fortunately for Homexam she decided not to pursue medicine. She also has a certificate in secondary education.

     Ananda Dominique Reavis , Assistant to the Administrator, is useful useful useful! (it used to read “as a teenager can get” but she complained so much; anyway, now she's an old lady - not a teenager). She was accepting responsibility for an increasing portion of the Homexam workload, and still helps on a regular basis even though employed full-time in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA in 2003.

      Also, Cari Xochitl Reavis-Geiss and Martin Netzahualcoyotal Reavis provide assistance as needed.

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