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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, master
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 13 he had passed the license test to become a
“ham” radio operator. From his teens through his early 30s
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 and continuing for
a few years after graduate school, 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 even though employed
full-time in big, bad Los Angeles - with a title of Producer for a
video/film post-production company. She graduated from UCLA in 2003.
Also, Cari Xochitl Reavis-Geis (with a degree in computer
science) and Martin
Netzahualcoyotal Reavis (with a degree in engineering) provide
assistance as needed (Martin, owner of
Cancun Markets furniture stores in Dallas, owns a warehouse from
which we often ship books).
 
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