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The Impact of Deferred Home Maintenance

You might have noticed all the little tedious items on your home to-do list pile up. Somehow “I’ll get to it tomorrow” has turned into months, possibly years. Maybe it’s due to financial or time constraints. Whether it’s a squeaky door, loose floorboard, or peeling paint, you figure you’ll get to it someday, right? Well, let’s turn “someday” into today. Grab a notepad and pen, take a tour around your home, and let’s get started. Why? Because small deferred home maintenance can quickly turn into something big and expensive.

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Your Guide to Navigating New Home Ownership

I remember buying my first home. It was a rollercoaster of emotions. From excitement to anxiety and then relief. Now it was finally time to move in. I got some great advice that in hindsight, really helped start me off on the right foot. It boils down to patience and planning. Before you jump in, if you can take a step back and focus on setting yourself up for success as a new homeowner first, you’ll thank yourself later.

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4 Ways to Get Your House Ready for Summer

A representative from one of the myriad vacation home rental properties keeps leaving attractive brochures by my front gate. They want to know if we’re interested in turning our home into a vacation rental, even occasionally. I have to admit the lure of additional income is tempting. Many moons ago I had a friend who worked as a location scout for films and high-end catalogs. Telling me how many thousands of dollars a day were paid to people to rent out their houses, she whet my appetite for finding ways to make money off my home without having to work too hard for it. The truth of the matter? If I were ever to put my house on the vacation rental market, I’d have to do a lot to make it work, especially my outdoor space.

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Beyond Dust Bunnies – Heavy Duty House Cleaning

This is embarrassing to admit, but cleaning is my hobby. Yes, you read that right, I love to clean. This wasn’t always the case – my mother was an indifferent housekeeper. We rented, didn’t own, and for some reason she thought this gave her a free pass to not really keep up with it. One house she rented was a run-down Victorian that could never be properly cleaned. The area around every faucet was rusty and mold blossomed along one wall behind the washing machine.

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Life With Dogs – Six Ways to Share Your Space

I have dogs. I’ve always had dogs. Right now, I just have one. There was a period of my adult life when my family had three dogs, two cats, and a pony. Admittedly, the pony did not live with us inside the house. Nevertheless, its hair was a regular factor to be dealt with. Over my husband’s adamant protests, for years I persisted in bringing from the barn horse sheets and blankets and saddle pads to launder in our clothes washer.

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Need A Handyman? Hire A Pro.

When we moved into our first house as a married couple, I thought everything was perfect. Prior to completing our purchase, we had a full home inspection and an hour before the actual closing we did a walk through. Everything seemed great. So when a skylight dripped rain onto the hardwood floor during a heavy downpour the first week we moved in, and I began noticing some cabinet doors were askew and the stairs squeaked a lot, I was dismayed.

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6 Tips To Green Your Home

April showers bring May flowers, and as we see more and more green out our windows and spend more time outside, it’s time to look inside and how to make our homes more green too! Earth Day is in April, a holiday started in 1970 during the start of the modern environmental movement.

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Fall Maintenance 101

Fall weather is growing cooler and the summer season has come to an end. Now is the ideal time to prepare your home for the ever-changing New England weather.

The beautiful foliage is one of the benefits of living in the Northeast, but it can also be a hindrance for homeowners. Take the time to have gutters and leaders cleaned out regularly this season. A clog in your gutters can cause water to back up with nowhere to go causing an unnecessary leak into your home.

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Getting Ready For Summer – 5 Ways To Refresh Your Outdoor Space

As the weather starts warming up, it’s the perfect time to vamp up the beauty of your outdoor space to enjoy more time outside! With these current uncertainty around COVID-19 and times of social distancing, it’s likely that most of us will be using our outdoor space for recreation and enjoying the outdoors more than ever. Investing in your outdoor space typically boosts curb appeal and resale value, but these days can also improve your quality of life more than ever! Here are five ideas, some are simple DIY and others a bit more complex, to get you thinking about the exterior spaces around your home.

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Getting Ready to Sell Your House? Here are 11 Things Most People Forget to Do

July 10, 2019 / by RedFin

You’ve started on your lists of small repairs, you’ve contacted a real estate agent, and now you’re in the final steps of getting ready to sell your house. But before you put your home up for sale, and certainly before having your first open house, here are 11 things to consider that most home sellers forget to think about and could cost you a sale.

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