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Simple House Maintenance Tips to Keep Your Home Great

Wonder why you’d need house maintenance tips? After all, you have owned a home for years (maybe built it from the ground up), surely you know what to do to keep your home great… Yet… There are two kinds of surprises: good ones, and bad ones. Unfortunately, when it comes to home ownership, there’s a shortage of stories of the owners discovering buried treasure under their home. We might not be able to provide any tips on how to make that more likely, but here are some good house maintenance tips to help you avoid some of bad surprises:

Beware of flipped homes (and learn tips to spot them)

Flipping has always been a good way of making money in real estate but flipped homes do not always receive the best of treatment and the renovations are quite often just cosmetics applied to major issues that are not being addressed and repaired accordingly. When you are out house hunting, keep an eye open (or both) for misleading “improvements”.

7 Tips for Planning a Home Addition

The family expands, the children are growing up, or for some other reason the house is becoming a little small, you need or want more space and you are thinking about a home addition. You know one thing already, it is going to be a lengthy, messy, expensive project. But how much time, work and money exactly are involved in a home addition?

Spring isn’t over yet, and tackling these ten tasks and home maintenance tips will make you feel like it’s the first day of Spring all over again!
Maybe you’ve already done your Spring cleaning… or maybe more honestly, you’ve been planning on it but haven’t gotten to it yet. Delay no more!

Does Your Home Contain Toxic Building Materials?

Toxic building materials are found in most constructions, especially older ones. That is why older buildings are being retrofitted or in some cases rebuilt in order to render them non harmful to people. In recent months we have heard about the gas leak in Porter Ranch CA, the lead polluted water in Flint MI and the formaldehyde found in excess in flooring and their impact on people’s health and the environment.