Category Archives: Home Owner Tips

Breathe Easy

Tweet Breathe Easy The benefits of regularly changing the heating and air-conditioning filters are obvious to homeowners; the real challenge is creating a system to make sure it gets done. A reasonable schedule would be to replace it with a new one-inch pleated filter every 60-90 days. Households with shedding pets should consider replacing them…

Cut Refinancing Expenses

Tweet   Cut Refinancing Expenses Every single day, homeowners who are excited about lowering their rate have a tendency to ignore the refinancing costs because they’re being rolled back into the new mortgage. If the payment is lower than what they’re currently paying and there’s no money out of pocket, it seems like a good…

When to Sell the Temporary Rental

Tweet When to Sell the Temporary Rental Some homeowners, who were not able to sell during the recession, chose to rent their homes instead.  In some cases, they didn’t need to sell their home at the depressed prices and opted to rent it until the market recovered. It’s a valid strategy but there are time…

Here they come… Inauguration Rentals…

Tweet Well as it has happened before; and so it begins once more…  I saw my 1st advertisement for an “Inauguration Rental”.  Now unless you are from Washington DC; you will say – HUH? Well during the last Presidential Inauguration; DC was to see a record number of people to come for the Inauguration of…

MOLD ! Sure that MUST be mold !

Tweet MOLD in your home is the new 4-letter word no home buyer/owner/seller or Realtor wants to hear.  It can be scary.  It can be quite harmful to your health and it can cause thousands of dollars of damage. However it is VERY important to understand a few things. The only way to know if…

What happened to my cable bill?

Tweet The first month my bill jumped $40 – I blamed it on the better-half ordering too many On-Demand or pay per view movies.  See like many people; I didn’t actually LOOK at the bill.  It was on auto-pay; so I was just “annoyed”. The 2nd month I saw it was up $50.  Now I…