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Loving,
Hello, congrats on getting started!
I think every agency is different. I have heard of some that didn’t look around much. However, ours did. She looked at all the rooms and in closets, bathroom and even in the shower. She ask if they all worked and such. She looked at our pool and asked us about safety gates and locks (which we have). She was real polite and kind but didn’t hesitate to go into all the rooms and open any closed doors. She didn’t open any cupboards, however, my daughter, (just over 1) showed her the snack drawer, thank goodness I have that one organize well! It seemed like she just wanted to know what type of environment we lived in. Nothing is perfect anywhere so I am sure a brief all over clean up will be fine. If you are planning on doing the foster adopt thing, (we are) then they will come out later and look at things like you water heater and heating/cooling systems and fire extinguishers ect. I don’t know for sure, since we haven’t gotten that far yet. They didn’t say anything about our home that they did not like so I guess we were ok. They ask about smoke detectors though, we do have those quite a few, I am a bit paranoid about house fires so we have one in almost every single room of the house. Well I hope to kind of answers your question. I was glad to hear things are on there way, are you still looking for an older child? If so what agency are you going with and if I may ask what was the fee for? You can PM me if you want. I though that if you go through the state it is mostly free other than the charge of court and such. Maybe there is something I don’t know about any way I am interested!
LH
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