Selling your home? What to look for in a listing agent
When you want to sell your home, don’t bother asking Alexa because when we asked Google how to find a listing agent it gave us more than 6.5 million results. [...]
3 Home maintenance resolutions for 2019
As most homeowners understand, owning a home isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it kind of possession. It requires what sometimes seems like almost constant maintenance. While some of these tasks can be deferred, [...]
2 Ways to Avoid Overpaying for a Mortgage
The process of buying your first home involves a steep learning curve. From how to get started to understanding the roles of the various players in the process, it can [...]
Do these 7 things before moving into your new home
If there’s one thing we can guarantee during the home sale process it’s that you’ll walk away from the closing table with a sore wrist and a bad case of [...]
Real Estate Lingo Deciphered: What’s a “Comp?”
From Ikea product hacks to painting kitchen cabinets and refinishing countertops, Americans are absolutely hooked on the DIY craze. There are some things, however, that only a pro should tackle [...]
Tips for a Brilliant Bookshelf Makeover
Sure, books aren’t exactly selling like the Instapot (2018’s hottest selling product on Amazon’s Prime Day in the U.S.), but if you’re of the opinion that something isn’t worth reading [...]
5 Tips for moving when the weather outside is frightful
Moving is bad enough, but moving in wet, muddy, sloppy weather should be illegal. Alas, it’s not, and if you have no choice but to move during winter, do yourself [...]
Is your home smarter than you? It could be
Have you ever stocked up on groceries for a week’s worth of recipes and then forgot which of them you’d intended to follow? If you owned an LG InstaView ThinQ [...]
4 types of neighborhoods
After the boring stuff is out of the way – the loan application process, choosing a lender and then hiring a real estate agent, it’s time to go shopping, the [...]
The cure for wet basements
Pretend, for a moment, that it’s spring (yes, it will come). Although snow is still deep, temperatures are rising. What happens? The snow will melt, sometimes rapidly, creating lots and [...]