How to Budget for Home Maintenance

It’s the American Dream – owning your own home…  you scrimp and save, pay off debts, clean up your credit, maybe even tighten the belt and do without for a bit… and you  save, save, save….  finally, with finances in order and pre-approval in hand the dream starts to feel like a possibility.  Shopping can…

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Don’t Forget to Check out the Inside!

Winter, thankfully, is ending.  How did you fare?  We were mostly lucky, our weather was fairly mild this go ’round.  A mild winter is not a hall pass to skip your maintenance checks and move on to Spring.  This transitioning season is still a great trigger to check on your property’s preventative maintenance needs…  Mostly preventative maintenance…

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An Ounce of Prevention…

If there is one thing I’ve learned during my 35 years working in homes and businesses, it’s this, it pays to maintain and repair rather than to put small repairs off until another day.  It seems most times when that day finally arrives, what was once a small nuisance is often an inconvenient, and costly repair/replacement.   For…

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