home maintenance: Quick Tips to Spruce Up Your Home
- 10/29/18 02:08 PM
You don't need thousands of dollars to fully refurbish your home to make it feel like new again. Instead, you can DIY a lot of features in your house to help spruce it up for the upcoming season. Whether you plan to sell your home, have guests over, or are just tired of how drab it's been feeling lately, here are a few tips and tricks you can use to refresh your space. CLEAN + DECLUTTER Throw out all of the junk taking up space! You'd be surprised by how much more you'll fall back in love with your home when … (5 comments)
We all have that list...the running list of home maintenance items that we try to get to when we have an extra couple of minutes. Oftentimes, real life gets in the way and that list keep growing--until, sometimes, items are forgotten. There are a couple of tasks, that while they seem minor, you should prioritize. Not doing these home maintenance tasks can end up costing you big money! I see these things later become home inspection repairs on many of my listings. Clean the gutters: Gutters take the rain water from your roof to the ground. Make sure you … (1 comments)
home maintenance: Get Out There And Do It!!
- 01/07/13 10:48 PM
This is the time of year that Realtors begin getting calls about listing homes for the Spring market. Often, the listing is delayed while we send the homeowner back to get contractors in to deal with deferred maintenance. Because everyone is trying to get their house fixed up for Spring (whether or not they are selling), and also because the weather does not always cooperate, it is often difficult to get these appointments scheduled. If you are planning to sell your home this Spring, you should be getting it fixed up now. All of those items that you planned to 'deal … (8 comments)
home maintenance: We've been infested! The Tiny Black Ants Are Back...
- 03/17/11 12:48 AM
Some people know that Spring has arrived when the days become longer; I know it is here when the tiny black ants begin appearing in my kitchen! These ants are a major annoyance! They might disappear for a day or so, only to reappear with a vengeance. All of the talk about the over abundance of chemicals in our lives has me trying to control the infestation without sprays (although I did spray the exterior of kitchen windows last week in desperation!). I have little ant traps scattered about. The theory with these traps is that the ants will eat the … (4 comments)
home maintenance: Sell Your Home : A Series of Posts, Part 2
- 11/11/09 10:46 PM
Now that you have decided to sell your home, it is critical that you look at your property objectively and make the necessary improvements. If you have read any of my previous posts, you will know that one of my favorite sayings is, 'you only get one chance to make a first impression.' This is the time to prepare your home as thoroughly as you would prepare yourself for an important interview. Look at every corner of your home and ask yourself is it 1) clean, 2) well maintained, 3) dated (and replace offending items if necessary). Just as you may … (3 comments)
home maintenance: Sell Your Home: A Series of Posts, Part 1
- 11/11/09 05:12 AM
Are you are thinking about selling your house? If you have talked about this to friends and family, you are probably getting a lot of advice--much of which you find conflicting. For the past several years, I have written a number of blogs for sellers which I have called the Getting Your House Ready To Sell Series. I hope that you can benefit from some of these posts. Selling your home is different from many other life decisions because it impacts not only your net worth, but is usually a very emotional transaction. It is a rare seller who can completely … (1 comments)
home maintenance: Easy Thing You Can Do To Get Your Home Ready For Spring Showers
- 04/20/09 03:47 AM
My husband owns a design/build firm. Every time there is a heavy rainstorm, the phone calls pour in. It isn't that all his clients, and our friends, live in leaky homes. The reason for the calls is that many of them live in homes with a 'walk-up' rear elevation. For folks with basements, there are 3 types of rear elevations (basically all the rest are variations of these): walk-out, walk-up and fully enclosed. If you have a walk-up basement, chances are extremely good that you have a drain that sits between the door to your basement and the first stair (if … (2 comments)
home maintenance: Getting Your House Ready to Sell Series: What the Mailbox Might Be Saying About Your Home
- 02/15/09 02:44 AM
This morning I walked the neighborhood where I will be holding an Open House this afternoon. I always like to invite the neighbors (who presumably like where they live and have friends and family) to come in and see the listed property. As all Realtors know, Open Houses are primarily attended by curious neighbors. My plan was to personally invite each neighbor by knocking on the door and giving them an invitation yesterday afternoon. Of course, real life got in the way and I wasn't able to to that. My alternate plan was to string each of these postcard invites with … (4 comments)
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