Easy holiday season safety tips
Shopping, cooking, crackling fires and twinkling lights – all essential elements of the winter holiday season. It’s a time of celebration and, often, distraction. All of those essential elements can [...]
3 critical first steps for the first-time homebuyer
It’s tough being a newbie at anything, right? Learning new lingo, how things are done and how you’ll do them is a little confusing at first. Once you get the [...]
Isn’t it time to take a look at those VA benefits?
As we celebrate Veterans Day in November, I would be remiss to not mention one of the most misunderstood and overlooked veteran’s benefit, the VA home loan. Of the more [...]
Should I sell my home during a recession?
It’s inescapable. Discussions about a possible upcoming U.S. economic recession have become daily media fodder. Speculation and reality, as we all know, are two entirely different things. What many Americans [...]
Is it time for you to buy a bigger home?
Houses a bit like your kids’ shoes – before you know it, they don’t fit anymore. And, while we never hear folks say they regret having children, we often hear [...]
Here they come! Is your guest room ready?
The winter holidays are when we tend to get the most use out of our guest room. Other than that, and perhaps a summer weekend or two, it sits empty, [...]
3 Things your cat can teach you about house hunting
Whether you’re a crazy cat lady with a house full of felines or you prefer the company of just one kitty, if you watch closely you can learn a lot [...]
5 of our favorite DIY home improvement/maintenance blogs
What did we DIY project folks do before the internet? Make a lot of huge mistakes, for certain. Today’s DIYers have it made, with step-by-step instructions and videos on everything [...]
Working in the gig economy? How to get a mortgage
For the self-employed, April 15 holds no particular significance, income is often erratic (killing it one month to eating ramen for dinner the next), nobody sends them W-2s at year’s [...]
Understanding Property Taxes
I don’t know about you, but my brain shuts down when the word “tax” is mentioned. I think many of us would rather have a root canal than talk taxes. [...]